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Lloyds adds director to acquisition finance team
Steve Carr began his career at Lloyds in 2006 as credit analyst
Scottish Referendum result: boon for private equity
Asset class's handling of the referendum shows true strength of private equity
Notion and NEA invest $8.2m in Move Guides
Funding to support company's expansion into Hong Kong
Pemberton exits Windmill Extrusions
Deal marks successful turnaround of the business following near-collapse in 2010
Gilde Healthcare et al. invest £10m in Levicept
Company will use the funding to carry out its first clinical study
Lightspeed and Branson in $30m series-A for Blockchain
Lightspeed's Jeremey Liew will take a place on Blockchain's board
Zeus appoints Pollock and Allen
Allen and Pollock join as research director and head of corporate broking respectively
Octopus invests £2.2m in Uniplaces
Firm invested alongside several angel investors
Cavendish promotes Cummins, appoints three
Cummins' promotion marks firm's 12th partner
LDC backs £42m Eley MBO
LDC will support the company in creating new products and expanding internationally
Orrick appoints partner in corporate group
Emma Raleigh also joins as associate
Private wealth demands access to PE, says Connection's Madden
Claire Madden of Connection Capital discusses the rise of personal wealth accessing private equity
Sir Tom Hunter backs £5.5m Scotedge fund
New start-up-focused fund receives commitments from RBS and Hunter Foundation
Blackstone's Miller Homes scraps IPO plans
Company had hoped to raise around ТЃ140m
Golding and Eilon join Alcentra's board
Golding and Eilon join Alcentra as non-executive board members
Ingenious Ventures leads $500,000 for Woto
Turkish business angel group Galata also invested
Cabot scores 18x return on MedicX sale
Cabot Square created the healthcare investment fund in 2004
Mobeus makes 3.7x money on Focus exit
Deal includes potential ТЃ2.6m earn-out
DC Thomson and Nesta inject £1.75m into CogBooks
CogBooks involved in projects with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and OCR exam board
Endless sells Kiddicare to Worldstores
Online retailer Worldstores is backed by Balderton, Serena and Advent
Silverfleet offloads Aesica for £230m
Silverfleet acquired Aesica in 2011 from previous backers LDC
KPMG promotes Thakkar
Sanjay Thakkar takes over role from Richard Fleming
Sun Capital buys Strada for £37m
Deal sees Hugh Osmond's firm buy 43 of the brand's restaurants
Accel backs Qubit's $26m series-B
London-based company received $7.5m in December 2012