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Exponent sells Gorkana for £200m
Company sold to US rival, owned by PE firm GTCR
L Capital sets up shop in London
Paul Skipworth to lead London office
CD&R's BCA scraps IPO
BCA joins list of portfolio companies backing away from public markets
Corsair's Notemachine in third refinancing
Deal 10th for Ares' and GE's European Senior Secured Loan Programme
Bowmark hires three
New investment director Delaney previously Darwin Private Equity principal
Palamon appoints two
GP appoints new associate partner and advisory board member
Kernel invests €1.25m in DisplayNote
Firm invested via ТЃ25m Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund
Piper invests £6m in Hickory's Smokehouse
Investment is fifth made through Piper's ТЃ107m fifth fund
Great Hill invests £80m in Momondo buyout
Management will retain minority stake in business
Rutland to reap up to 2.8x on CeDo sale
Investment set to generate gross IRR of 25%
Sovereign appoints three
Appointments follow firm's ТЃ395m fund close in August
First close for Bridgepoint's €3.5bn fifth fund
Vehicle expects to reach тЌ4bn hard-cap by end of 2014
Atlas et al. invest £20m in Bicycle Therapeutics
VC firms were joined by several corporate healthcare venture arms
Isis Equity Partners hires four
New recruits include three investment managers and an associate
PE trio sells Milestone for $1.8bn
Milestone has 168 helicopters in fleet, worth $2.8bn
Fried Frank hires White from Kirkland & Ellis
Appointment continues trend of US firms expanding UK operations
Beringea backs Simplestream
Venture capital firm manages ProVen VCTs
HgCapital in £109.6m bid for Allocate Software
HgCapital bid represents 35.3% premium to Allocate's share price
Primary Capital mulls Paperchase sale
Reported ТЃ150m offer made for UK stationery chain
Lyceum Capital adds Bourn as partner
Bourn is third new face brought in to manage new fund
Gresham's Tupholme joins Greencoat as partner
Tupholme to manage Greencoat's EBS Novusmodus fund team
Teachers' picks up Bridon for £365m
Bridon manufactures steel wires and has been sold by listed-parent Melrose
Lloyds adds director to acquisition finance team
Steve Carr began his career at Lloyds in 2006 as credit analyst
Scottish Referendum result: boon for private equity
Asset class's handling of the referendum shows true strength of private equity