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Cathay Innovation leads €25m series-B for OnTruck
Existing investors include Atomico, Idinvest Partners, All Iron Ventures and Point 9 Capital
Bowmarks backs buyout of Lawyers On Demand
Outsourced legal services provider will pursue international expansion and add to its service range
Mid Europa acquires majority stake in JS Hamilton
Transaction is CEE-focused Mid Europa's ninth platform investment in Poland to date
Partners-led consortium buys Techem for €4.6bn
Deal ends a 10-year holding period for Macquarie, which took the firm private in 2008
Blackfin sells Owliance to Tessi
Financial-services-focused GP backed the insurance business process outsourcing service in 2010
Gresham sells IESA to Electrocomponents for £88m
GP was invested in the manufacturing services provider via its fourth and final fund
Main Capital acquires stake in SDB Ayton
SDB Ayton intends to grow its business through a buy-and-build strategy following the deal
Sovereign reaps 8x on sale of Kindertons to ExamWorks
Sale of the UK-based accident management business was based on EBITDA of around £20m
Riverside backs GermanPersonnel
Riverside will support GermanPersonnel's expansion by bringing in industry experts
Foresight injects £3m into DA Languages
UK interpreting and translation business will look to expand its private sector activity
Investindustrial hits €375m hard-cap for smaller fund
Fund targets lower-mid-market companies with strong internationalisation potential
BaltCap exits Runway to KKR-backed Webhelp
Deal also sees the current majority shareholder Dasha sell its shares to Webhelp
Castik buys Warbug Pincus-backed Ipan, merges with Delegate
Castik draws capital from its €1bn buyout fund Epic I, which held a final close in June 2014
Montagu sells Equatex to trade for $420m
Deal ends a holding period of four years for Montagu, which carved the business out of UBS
BPI France et al. in €7m round for Welcome to the Jungle
Latest funding round follows on from a first held in January 2017, when the firm raised €2m
Genesis exits POS Media Group
Deal comes just a year after Genesis acquired the firm via its Genesis Private Equity Fund III
Core invests in Alpine Fire Engineers
GP is currently investing from its second fund, which typically invests £5-15m per transaction
21 Concordia acquires stake in VGL
Polish GP backed the firm via its special purpose holding entity Polinvest 8
Hg reaps 4.9x on sale of JLA to Cinven
Deal brings to an end an eight-year tenure and generates a gross IRR of 26% for the vendor
New Mountain sells Alexander Mann to Omers for £820m
Company's management team, led by Rosaleen Blair, is also participating in the buyout
BGF invests £5.5m in NWC and High Access merger
Deal will create a facilities management group with a combined turnover of £30m
Eight Roads Ventures invests $20m in Fuse Universal
Transaction is Eight Roads Ventures' third investment so far this year
Aliter's Boston Networks bolts on PEL
Aliter is planning further acquisitions in its bid to create a fire, security and IT networking group
Riverside acquires Netwatch and NMC to create new group
Investment sees the creation of a CCTV monitoring company with a US and European presence