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Root injects £3.15m into Keystone Law
Deal provides exit for founding partner Charles Stringer
KPMG promotes three
Two take over role previously carried out by Richard Clarke
Cabot Square reaps 12x on £160m Equitix sale
EV represents 5x multiple of estimated 2015 EBITDA
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
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
SAP Ventures becomes Sapphire Ventures
Sapphire has $1.4bn in assets under management
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
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
Wahanda raises $26m, buys Salonmeister
Existing backer Fidelity Growth Partners takes part in series-C funding round
Gresham's Tupholme joins Greencoat as partner
Tupholme to manage Greencoat's EBS Novusmodus fund team
Silverfleet Capital appoints three
New appointments to bolster Paris and Munich offices
Teachers' picks up Bridon for £365m
Bridon manufactures steel wires and has been sold by listed-parent Melrose