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Catapult invests more than £1m into UK Gear
Catapult Venture Managers has invested £1.1m into into UK Gear, developers of high performance running shoes and sportswear.
Charterhouse favourite for £500m United Utilities sale
Charterhouse Capital Partners is understood to have gained the edge on a £500m bid for utility company United Utilities Contract Solutions (UUCS).
HgCapital closes three renewable energy deals
HgCapital’s dedicated renewable energy fund, HgCapital Renewable Power Partners, has closed three new investments: two Spanish solar PV projects and one UK onshore wind project.
LSP in €21.7m series B round for Merus
Life Sciences Partners (LSP), Novartis Option Fund, Pfizer and Bay City Capital have co-led a €21.7m series B financing round for biopharmaceutical Merus.
PPM Oost sells its stake in biotech incubator
PPM Oost and Wageningen University and Research Center have sold their stakes in the biotech incubator BioPartner Wageningen Center to developer and investor Kadans Vastgoed.
Warburg Pincus acquires Montagu's Survitec for £280m
Montagu Private Equity has completed its exit of Survitec, the survival equipment manufacturer, through a secondary buyout to private equity giant Warburg Pincus in a £280m deal.
Venture-backed Cycleenergy acquires Gaishorn
Venture-backed biomass plant company Cycleenergy has acquired Bioenergie Gaishorn GmbH and doubled its capacities.
Rainbow Seed Fund et al invest £2m into Microvisk
Existing investor the Rainbow Seed Fund, alongside Oxford Technology Management, the Advantage Growth Fund, Finance Wales and New Hill, have invested £2m into medical diagnostic company Microvisk Technologies.
3TS Capital Partners sells adverServe
3TS Capital Partners has sold its majority stake in adverServe Digital Advertising Services GmbH. In 2006, 3TS invested into adverServe as part of its earlier PXP Software AG engagement.
Endless refinances Crown Paints with £25m of new debt from RBS
Turnaround investor Endless has agreed to a refinancing of portfolio company Crown Paints Limited, the UK's largest decorative coatings manufacturer, which will see RBS inject £25m of new facilities into the business.
Optiomi and Veraventure back SongHi
Optiomi Invest has joined forces with the Finnish public early-stage investor Veraventure and backed SongHi Entertainment.
Advent buys Duke Street's Xafinity
Duke Street has completed its exit of Xafinity, the specialist pension services and employee benefits group, through a secondary buyout to Advent International in a deal of undisclosed value - the second SBO in two days.
Veraventure leads USD 1m round for XIHA Life
Finnish public venture capital fund Veraventure has led a USD 1m investment round for multilingual social networking site XIHA Life
eVenture and Holtzbrinck back EUR 4m mycitydeal funding
eVenture Capital Partners and Holtzbrinck Ventures, alongside strategic investor Rocket Internet, have invested EUR 4m into mycitydeal, a provider of online discounted entertainment offers.
Investec funds Odgers Berndtson buyout
Investec Private Bank Growth & Acquisition Finance has backed the £16m partial buyout of headhunting firm Odgers Berndtson from its parent, OPD Group.
smac partners acquires ICT-portfolio from iD TechVentures
Munich-based venture firm smac partners and Headway Capital have acquired a tail-end portfolio from iD TechVentures Ltd. The equity was drawn from smac partners Fund III, with Headway providing backing.
KKR acquires stake in Rudolf Wild
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) has acquired a stake in food ingredients business Rudolf Wild GmbH & Co. KG with effect from 1 January 2010 from the owner, Dr. Hans-Peter Wild.
GI Partners launches Elystan Capital Advisers
GI Partners has backed the launch of Elystan Capital Advisers, a Munich-based investment firm targeting mortgage backed assets and the mortgage banking sector in the DACH region.
Core Capital leads £4m round for Georgina Goodman
VCT manager Core Capital has led a £4m financing round for luxury goods retailer Georgina Goodman.
Hutton Collins refinances Windsor with new debt from Cydesdale
Hutton Collins Partners has agreed a refinancing of portfolio company Windsor Limited, the insurance broker, which will see Clydesdale Bank inject new senior debt facilities into the business.
General Atlantic takes minority stake in Markit
General Atlantic has invested in global financial information services company Markit, in exchange for a minority stake in the business.
Banking on the environment
Following the bad aftertaste left by the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December last year, there is reason to wonder whether all the hype investors are building around environmental technology is mere rhetoric.
Healthcare: the sector to watch
A seemingly recession-resilient sector attracts capital in the downturn. By Deborah Sterescu