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Crédit Mutuel Equity backs Axialease
GP invests €4.7m in the France-based B2B leasing service to fuel international expansion
MW&L acquires Chairman Mentors
MW&L invested ТЃ66m in oil well decommissioning company Well-Safe Solutions in October 2019
PE-backed Avisa bolts on consulting firm CEIS
Merger will help the group provide a wider range of cybersecurity-related services
LDC exits Keoghs
Keoghs CEO John Whittle and the management team will continue to lead the business
Inflexion acquires Marston minority stake
Marston is a judicial services group, which recovers funds on behalf of taxpayers and businesses
MML acquires Arrow from GCP
CVC Credit has provided a ТЃ70m acquisition facility to the business support service
Google buys VC-backed Pointy
Following the acquisition, Pointy expects to build new features and further expand its offering
Horizon supports three bolt-ons for DMC
Horizon is currently investing from its Horizon Capital I fund, which closed on ТЃ200m in 2018
IK to acquire Acture Groep
IK will buy a majority stake, investing via its €550m IK Small Cap II fund, which closed in Q1 2018
CVC Growth Partners invests $200m in EcoVadis
GP will draw equity from CVC Growth Partners II, which closed on $1.6bn in November 2019
Raise backs consultancy Efor
French GP invests €20m in the consultancy firm, while Capza provides a €35m unitranche
ECI sells MThree to trade after 18 months
Education services provider goes to US-based John Wiley & Sons for more than ТЃ100m
Groupe LFPI eyes Document Store
ActoMezz backed the French printing equipment distributor between 2015 and 2018
Dubag buys Gesellschaft für Reisevertriebssysteme
Germany-based Thomas Cook call-centre subsidiary was sold as part of the company’s insolvency
The Carlyle Group backs Dept SBO
Waterland sells its majority stake in the Dutch digital marketing and advertisement agency
Phoenix acquires Redington
Firm is currently investing from Phoenix Equity Partners 2016, which closed on ТЃ415m
Bregal Milestone inks first Dutch deal with Anywhere365
UK-based growth GP invests €40m in Anywhere365 via its maiden fund, which closed in 2018
Maven exits Prime Document for 2.6x return
Acquisition of Prime will allow UnifiedPost Group to enter the UK market
Mentha buys and merges Paradigma and BlijWerkt
Gilde Healthcare was invested in HR specialist BlijWerkt since 2011
Portobello Capital carves out BT's Spanish business
Deal includes the Spanish ICT services and the local network infrastructure managed by BT
HIG Capital carves out Lagardère Sports
Planned disposal values sports media agency LagardУЈre Sports at approximately тЌ110m
Agilitas sells Recover Nordic to EQT
EQT deploys capital from its EQT VIII fund, which hit its тЌ10.75bn hard-cap in 2018
Main Capital's SDB Groep buys Competence Group
GP bought SDB in Q2 2018 with the intention to pursue a buy-and-build strategy
ACG Management et al. back ADN Protection MBI
Soprome and BTC Capital also back the takeover of the security services company