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UK - HgCapital sells Sanctuary Spa to PZ Cussons for £75m
HgCapital has sold The Sanctuary Spa Group to PZ Cussons, the consumer products group, for ТЃ75m. The Sanctuary Spa is a female body care brand in the UK. The company also operates The Sanctuary Spa in Covent Garden, which serves over 64,000 guests per...
UK - Imperial Innovations backs £11m Circassia funding
Imperial Innovations Group Plc has made a follow-on investment of ТЃ1.75m as part of an oversubscribed ТЃ11m second round of funding for biotechnology company Circassia Holdings Ltd, taking its stake in the business to 13%. New investors Goldman Sachs...
UK - MSIF supports Host Telecom with £100,000
The Merseyside Special Investment Fund's (MSIF) Liverpool Seed Fund has invested ТЃ100,000 to support Host Telecom, developers of a new mobile phone advertising application.
UK - 3i leads £53m investment in oil and gas services company TSMarine
3i and ABN AMRO Merchant Banking are between them investing ТЃ53m in Aberdeen-based TSMarine (Contracting) Ltd. TSMarine operates in the niche subsea rigless intervention and decommissioning market. ABN AMRO formerly provided a ТЃ130m debt facility to...
BALTICS - GILD Bankers plans to launch new EUR 50m fund
GILD Bankers is planning to launch a new private equity fund in Q2 2008 with a target of EUR 50m.
FRANCE – Wendel rumoured to seek Editis exit
Wendel Investissement is reported to be seeking to divest Editis, the second largest publishers in France. The company is valued at between EUR 750 and 950m.
Q&A - Small is beautiful
After an active and fruitful year of investment and fundraising in 2007, Patrick Lissague, director general of UGF Private Equity, and Activa Capital partner Charles Diehl talk to Francois Rowell about the challenge the year ahead will provide