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Penta Capital Partners

Estate agents and lettings services
Lonsdale sells Charles Cameron to Penta's Socium Group

Third exit announced by Lonsdale this year, and the second from its 2016 fund

  • Exits
  • 02 August 2021
Broadband internet services for home consumers
Toscafund, Penta to acquire TalkTalk for £1.1bn

Consortium offered 97 pence per share, a premium of 16.4% on the unaffected share price of 83.3 pence

  • Buyouts
  • 17 December 2020
Hunter Boots makes wellies and other outdoor clothing
Goldman Sachs and THCP invest £16.5m in Hunter Boots

Wellingtons manufacturer mandated AlixPartners to sell a stake in the business in March 2020

  • Refinancing
  • 02 June 2020
Full-line insurance
Searchlight invests in Penta-backed GRP

Searchlight will take a majority stake, with other investors taking minority positions

  • Expansion
  • 04 February 2020
Inusrance claims and brokers
Penta-backed GRP buys Digney Grant

GRP’s Irish division Abbey Bond Lovis, a retail broking specialist, buys a majority stake

  • Expansion
  • 20 August 2018
Endura is a cycling apparel brand
Maven-, Penta-backed Endura acquired by Pentland Brands

Transaction comes three and a half years after the GPs invested in the cycling apparel brand

  • Exits
  • 20 March 2018
Insurance brokers
Penta- and Maven-backed GRP acquires County Group

Current management team will stay with the business as it moves to new ownership

  • Portfolio management
  • 19 January 2018
Insurance brokers
Penta- and Maven-backed GRP acquires Greens

Deal is the third bolt-on acquisition made by the insurance broker since the beginning of 2016

  • Portfolio management
  • 19 June 2017
Hospitals and healthcare
Penta, Toscafund agree £75.2m Circle take-private

Deal for loss-making hospital operator would come six years after the business listed

  • Buyouts
  • 30 March 2017
Penta exits Six Degrees

Penta invested £60m in technology infrastructure company in 2011

  • UK / Ireland
  • 17 June 2015
Penta rides off with Endura

Penta and Maven have invested in cycle apparel company Endura

  • UK / Ireland
  • 29 October 2014
Penta consortium buys Daisy

Offer gives Daisy a market cap of £494m

  • Buyouts
  • 22 October 2014
Penta makes bid for Daisy

Offer gives company market cap of £507m

  • UK / Ireland
  • 15 August 2014
Penta’s GRP receives £55m

Global Risk Partners (GRP), backed by Penta Capital, has received £55m in funding to launch as a London market consolidator.

  • Early-stage
  • 08 November 2013
Volume of European private equity exits
Exit activity remains low despite headline deals

Although divestments have featured prominently in the news recently, figures seem to tell a different story. Alice Murray takes a look at this year's exit landscape

  • Exits
  • 30 August 2013
Focus on the insurance sector
Sector focus: Playing it safe in the insurance market

Sector focus: Insurance

  • Financials
  • 23 August 2013
Esure IPO gives firm £1.2bn market cap

Insurance provider Esure has completed its flotation on the London Stock Exchange, which gives it a market capitalisation of £1.2bn.

  • UK / Ireland
  • 22 March 2013
Penta Capital in £560m offer for Redrow

Listed UK house builder Redrow has received a takeover approach from its chairman, backed by a number of investment funds including Penta Capital.

  • UK / Ireland
  • 31 August 2012
Penta backs telecoms buy-and-build platform with £60m

Penta Capital has provided an initial £60m funding package to support a new company that will acquire service providers to the UK managed data sector.

  • UK / Ireland
  • 06 July 2011
Lyceum buys EAT from Penta Capital

Lyceum Capital has acquired a majority stake in UK takeaway food chain EAT from Penta Capital.

  • UK / Ireland
  • 07 April 2011
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