United Kingdom
Palatine invests in E-Days
Deal for the employee absence software developer is the second investment from the GP's impact fund
CCMP sells Pure Gym to Leonard Green in £600m deal
Pure Gym's revenues have increased fivefold over CCMP's four-year ownership
Debut funds flourish in UK market
First-time fundraisings are increasingly frequent in the UK, with 2017 seeing the most final closes of maiden funds for five years
TransferWise in $280m series-E
Deal values the London-based money transfer service at $1.6bn
Preservation Capital backs Ascent Underwriting
New financial-services-focused firm Preservation Capital Partners inks its first deal
NVM invests £4m in Hello Soda
Deal sees the VCT manager acquire a minority stake in the data analytics software company
Lonsdale hires new investment associate
Second addition to the team in the past six months also follows the promotion of Evans to partner
Breyer and Index in $28m series-B for Kano
Fresh capital will fund the launch of the company's products in the North American market
Caledonia sells Sloane Club to Queensway and Clearbell
Deal ends a 26-year tenure and gives the private members club an enterprise value of ТЃ80.6m
LDC sells Mini-Cam to Halma for £85m
Sale of the pipeline inspection systems producer is the vendor's eighth exit in five months
Equistone hires investment director for Manchester office
Sebastien Leusch joins the Manchester office after a nine-year stint at Montagu
SEP invests in Dotmatics
GP invests in the data analytics software provider with capital drawn from its ТЃ260m fifth fund
Maven Capital hires Marsh as investment manager
Marsh will help manage the Durham County Council's ТЃ20m Finance Durham fund, mandated to Maven in March
Core Capital divests Cording to Rothschild's Orox
Real estate advisory firm has expanded via an international acquisitive growth strategy
Equistone's Concept Life Sciences bolts on Aquila Biomedical
Bolt-on will bolster Concept's discovery capabilities with a translational biology offering
Graphite backs £72m MBO of YSC from Livingbridge
Deal for the management consultancy brings to an end a four-year tenure for Livingbridge
SL Capital closes secondaries fund on $428m
Total raised for SL's third secondaries vehicle is 47% more than that raised for its predecessor
Livingbridge exits IP Solutions in LDC deal
Communications technology business will look to make bolt-on acquisitions following the deal
WestBridge, Octopus divest Vista to LDC in £29.4m SBO
LDC invested ТЃ14m in the deal, which generated a 4x return and 80% IRR for WestBridge
BGF divests Zone to Cognizant
Sale of digital marketing business comes two and a half years after the GP's initial investment
FPE closes maiden fund on £100m
UK-focused vehicle will target buyout and growth investments in companies with EVs of ТЃ20-50m
Draper Esprit acquires two Seedcamp funds
Deal sees the acquirer take stakes in a number of tech startups, including Transferwise
Global Founders in £36m Nested round
Online estate agent will target expansion in London before looking to grow across the UK
Circularity and Mustard Seed co-lead $7.4m round for Winnow
Business will roll out its software for tracking food wastage across new international markets