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Bridgepoint

Hiring a businesswoman
BDC invests in Matrix

Equity for the investment was drawn from Bridgepoint Development Capital III, which closed on £600m

  • Expansion
  • 25 June 2020
Deals and transactions
EQT sells credit business to Bridgepoint

There were five or six bidders in the early stages of the sale auction, including Schroders

  • GPs
  • 18 June 2020
Womenswear and fashion retailers
Bridgepoint-backed Fat Face in debt-to-equity swap – report

Deal would reduce Fat Face's present £120m borrowing levels via a debt-for-equity swap

  • Exits
  • 11 June 2020
Business consultants and strategy advisers
Bridgepoint buys insurance group CEP from JC Flowers

GP invests via Bridgepoint Europe VI, which closed on its €5.7bn hard-cap in December 2017

  • Buyouts
  • 27 May 2020
New fund registered with Companies House
UK fundraising update: name-brands push on through

Despite the coronavirus crisis, many GPs and VC investors are expecting to hold closes in 2020

  • Funds
  • 21 May 2020
UK fund closes and launches
BDC IV holds first close

To date, the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana has invested £50m in BDC IV

  • Funds
  • 15 May 2020
Textiles manufacturers
LGT buys Bridgepoint-backed 5aSec in debt-to-equity swap

Bridgepoint has sold its equity stake in 5aSec for a symbolic €1, which sees the firm wholly exit

  • Exits
  • 12 May 2020
Marketing strategy meetings
Bridgepoint-backed Fishawack acquires Skysis

Unquote understands the combined entry multiple of both Skysis and Fishawack was 12.8x

  • Portfolio management
  • 09 April 2020
Finance software for alternative asset managers
Bridgepoint buys 28% stake in French asset manager Cyrus

GP invests via its lower-mid-cap fund Bridgepoint Development Capital III, which raised around £600m

  • Buyouts
  • 02 April 2020
Deals Pipeline
The Deals Pipeline

A fortnightly highlight of deal processes underway and involving PE, either on the buy- or sell-side, across Europe

  • Investments
  • 10 March 2020
CCTV and other security systems
BDC's Anaveo buys Azman from Initiative & Finance

Initiative & Finance bought a minority stake in Azman as part of an owner buyout in 2017

  • Exits
  • 19 February 2020
Pill production
DPE sells stake in PharmaZell to Bridgepoint

Deutsche Private Equity invested in the company in 2013 and began the sale process in August 2019

  • Buyouts
  • 14 February 2020
Dental clinics
Bridgepoint invests in Oris Dental

Based in Trondheim and founded in 2016, Oris operates 25 dental clinics and four dental laboratories

  • Buyouts
  • 20 December 2019
Artificial intelligence
Bridgepoint-backed Qualitest acquires AlgoTrace

Founded in 2015, AlgoTrace is based in Petach Tikva, Israel, and employs eight people

  • Portfolio management
  • 13 December 2019
Information technology consultants
Bridgepoint's Bee2link buys Agence K

Bee2link buys IT and business support services firm serving the automobile sector

  • Expansion
  • 30 October 2019
Deals and transactions
HarbourVest, Hamilton Lane in Bridgepoint Europe IV restructuring

Bridgepoint Europe IV, which closed on €4.8bn in 2008, still holds a number of assets

  • Secondaries
  • 08 October 2019
Woman serving food in cafeteria
Bridgepoint to back Vermaat Groep SBO

GP will buy Vermaat, a catering and hospitality specialist, from Partners Group

  • Buyouts
  • 07 October 2019
Bikes and cycling products
Riverside buys Bike24 back from Bridgepoint's WiggleCRC

Riverside sold the company to Bridgepoint-backed WiggleCRC in October 2017 for around £100m

  • Buyouts
  • 20 September 2019
Carsten Kratz of Bridgepoint
Bridgepoint appoints BCG's Kratz for DACH

Kratz will work alongside Chris Brackmann who was appointed head of DACH investment this year

  • People
  • 20 September 2019
Wealth managers and financial advisers
PE consortium and Sogecap invest in Primonial

Deal sees PE firm Bridgepoint reduce its shareholding in Primonial from 56.1% to 35%

  • Buyout
  • 11 September 2019
Computer services and electronics leasing
Bridgepoint-backed BigHand bolts on Iphelion

Deal comes nine years after the GP initially backed the legal-sector-focused software group

  • Portfolio management
  • 09 August 2019
Portfolio reorganisations
Inflexion to merge Bridgepoint-backed Estera with Ocorian

Transaction ends a four-year holding period and reportedly values Estera at £500-600m

  • Buyouts
  • 19 July 2019
School classrooms
Bridgepoint's Cambridge Education Group sells CATS for £150m

School operator will be sold to Chinese trade buyer Bright Scholar after five and a half years

  • Exits
  • 09 July 2019
Fiancial comparison software for businesses
BlackRock to buy eFront in $1.49bn deal

Sale of investment management software provider generates 4.8x return for Bridgepoint

  • Exits
  • 25 March 2019
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