Rothschild
Quilvest acquires Phaidon International
Specialist STEM sector recruitment business increased its underlying EBITDA to £10.4m last year
3i sells Scandlines to First State and Hermes in €1.7bn deal
Vendor reinvests for a 35% stake in the Danish-German ferry operator after an 11-year holding
Palamon makes 3.6x on sale of Ober Scharrer to Nordic Capital
Sale is the 16th realisation from Palamon’s 2006-vintage fund, Palamon European Equity II
OpCapita buys Rossopomodoro owner Sebeto
GP will strengthen the management team with the appointment of new CEO Roberto Colombo
Advent receives board approval for £1bn Laird take-private
GP has also received irrevocable undertakings and letters of intent from 27% of Laird's shareholders
TDR begins sales process for David Lloyd
Rothschild has been mandated for the sales process of the UK-based tennis and gym club
3i buys Royal Sanders from Egeria
Deal ends a three-year holding period for Egeria, which bought the company from Bencis
Equistone sells Concept Life Sciences to Spectris for £163m
Equistone formed Concept Life Sciences through a hat-trick of acquisitions in 2014
ActoMezz increases stake in Abrisud
Mezzanine and equity provider now owns 50.1% of the French pool covers manufacturer
Towerbrook carves out Bosal ACPS for €250m
ACPS generates sales of €250m, approximately 40% of the group's overall revenues
Ardian acquires majority stake in DRT
Individual shareholders and Tikehau Capital reinvest part of their proceeds alongside Ardian
Céréa Partenaire backs management buyout of Store Novation
Investment is financed via Céréa Capital II, which closed in January 2017 on €225m
Five Arrows acquires minority stake in Opus 2
GP is currently investing from its second fund, which writes equity cheques of €20-70m
Five Arrows buys Voogd & Voogd from Bencis
Bencis led the management buyout of the Dutch insurance services business in 2013
LDC hires two investment directors
Duo will oversee £1.2bn of equity investments in British companies over the next three years
Mid Europa sells Alpha Medical to Apax's Unilabs
Vendor has owned Slovakia-based Alpha Medical since a 2012 SBO, while Apax acquired Unilabs in December 2016
Mid Europa in €202m sale of Hungary-based Invitel to China-CEE Fund
Exit values the telecommunications business at 4.5x its 2015 EBITDA
Bowmark, Rothschild sell Autodata to Solera for £340m
Sale of the automotive technical data provider to the US trade buyer marks a return for Bowmark's fifth fund
Edmond de Rothschild PE closes Eres III fund on €300m hard-cap
Closing marks the largest fundraising completed to date by the Eres team
Rothschild closes direct secondaries vehicle on €451m
Latest vehicle is more than double the size of its 2012-vintage predecessor
EdRip injects €15m into Mondial Pet
As part of the deal, EdRip acquired a minority stake in excess of 40%
EdRip promotes Le Bourgeois and Nobécourt
Both hitherto served as partners within the investment firm
BWB Partners makes first exit with SGL sale
Exit marks the first divestment for BWB since rebranding and recapping former Odin funds
Innova, HarbourVest et al. in €100m Benestra exit
SBO means a final exit for the PE consortium that purchased central European telco GTS in 2008