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ICG hires Jamie Rivers from BC Partners
Rivers' deals at BC Partners included Acuris, CarTrawler, Cote Restaurants, Elysium and VetPartners
Workday Ventures invests in Beamery
Beamery said it has raised $40m to date and experienced 300% growth in the last 12 months
Exponent to exit Bullitt via restructuring - reports
Reported transaction would come less than two years after Exponent acquired a 65% stake in the firm
Mobeus appoints Mead as venture partner
New recruit left his role as chief investment officer at Mercia Technologies in 2018
LDC backs £110m buyout of Evolution Funding
GP acquires a minority stake in the carve-out of the online B2B car finance broker
Augmentum leads £150m debt and equity round for Iwoca
NIBC and existing investors including Prime also took part in the round for the SME lender
Inovia holds close on $600m for double fundraise, launches in London
Initially launched the funds in May 2018 and held initial closes towards the end of the year
Adams Street co-leads $75m series-E for GoCardless
GV and Salesforce also lead the round, with Accel, Balderton, Notion and Passion taking part
LDC's Lucid bolts on Bluedog
Deal is the first acquisition by the healthcare-focused communications firm since LDC's investment
US-based VCs invest $25m in Teckro series-C
Teckro produces a software platform that improves the efficiency of clinical trials
Causeway Capital buys Patisserie Valerie out of administration
Patisserie Holdings plc sold Patisserie Valerie and a smaller subsidiary for a combined ТЃ13m
BluGem sells DMC Group to Lion Capital
Sale ends a three-year holding period for BlueGem, which bought the company via its тЌ370m second fund
True rescues portfolio company TyresOnTheDrive
GP previously invested in the tyre e-commerce business, which entered administration in January
Bowmark close to £100m take-private of Tax Systems
Offer represents a premium of 20.3% on the average 91.4 pence per share in the past 12 months
Star Capital acquires ASL Aviation Holdings
Star Capital plans to wholly acquire ASL, which has been profitable every year since inception
Beringea leads £2.4m funding round for DeepCrawl
Funding will enable DeepCrawl to further consolidate and expand its presence in the UK and the US
RCapital backs AirHop MBO
Trampoline parks operator is to open five new sites in Germany and two in the UK
EQT sells 20% of IVC to pension funds
Deal reportedly values the company at ТЃ2.6bn, affords EQT more time before a future IPO
Synova hires Sovereign's Jain, appoints two more
Jain joins as an investment director, while the GP also hires Alantra's Mullally and HSBC's Bullman
Panoramic backs management buy-in of PCS
GP is currently investing from its second fund, which writes equity cheques of ТЃ1-5m
Baird promotes three to managing director
Ballantine, Luen and Sun are promoted from their director roles in the industrial and TMT teams
Endless adds new associate director to Manchester team
James Warburton spent eight years in the Manchester restructuring team at Deloitte
LGPS Central closes first PE fund
First time that pension fund partnership LGPS Central has launched a private equity fund
Palatine backs management buyout of SMP Partners
Isle of Man-based financial advisory business will pursue an acquisitive growth strategy