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Foresight expands Nottingham and Manchester teams
Mike Quinn joins from RSM while Matthew Pomroy joins from Mazars
Baird acquires Bfinance
Transaction comes months after GP exited Alpha FMC, another investment advisory business
Catalyst promotes Holden to partner
New partner oversees the advisory firm's London-based business services team
TPG Growth acquires FRG from Livingbridge
Deal is understood to give the recruitment company an enterprise value of around £200m
Q&A: Rutland Partners’ David Wardrop
Partner David Wardrop discusses how the firm’s past experience of special-situations investing benefits its new portfolio companies
Liautaud named managing partner at Balderton
Liautaud joined Balderton in 2008 as general partner after selling his company Business Objects
BGF appoints Caird’s Barker
Barker joins from Caird Capital, where he was an investment director
3i sells Mayborn after 10-year holding period
GP had already received £32m as part of a 2012 refinancing deal for the business
Comment: Change creates the future
Grant Thornton's Charles Toosey discusses how to attract graduates and investment into a reawakening industrials sector
KCP appoints FTI's Excell as investment manager
New hire will identify potential acquisitions for firm's first institutional fund
LaunchPad raises £2m series-A from Sussex Place et al.
London-based LaunchPad will use the funding to improve its HR analytics offering
PAI's R&R merges with Nestlé's ice cream activities
New company, to be called Froneri, will be headquartered in the UK
MMC leads £1.8m series-A for StoryStream
Fresh funding will be used for product development and sales efforts
Dunedin's EV Offshore bolts on Epidote
Transaction marks only the third European deal in the oil & gas sector this year
LDC in £12m Vital Ingredient deal
Fresh funding will be used to double the company's retail outlets within the next three years
Endless appoints Addleshaw Goddard's Smith as partner
New recruit worked on the firm's secondary buyout deal for Bright Blue Foods
Sunamp raises £3.2m from Highland Venture et al.
Scottish company has developed heat batteries used for energy storage
Livingbridge injects £8m into The Up Group
Digital executive search and networking business targets further domestic and international growth
Lone Star initiates Forterra exit with £360m London IPO
Flotation gave the UK-based brick-maker a total market value of £360m
Synova invests £25m in Fairstone
Deal marks first investment for Synova's third fund, which closed on £250m at the start of the year
Electra deputy managing partner Symondson steps down
Departure forms part of the GP's long-term succession plan, set in motion in 2010
CVC, Charterhouse, Permira fully exit Saga
The private equity consortium sold their remaining 32% stake in the company
RCapital acquires Independent Group from LDC
The business bolted on carpet cleaning company Chem-Dry under LDC's tenure
Another bumper year for VCT fundraising despite rule changes
VCT funds have pulled in record amounts this year, but how easily will deployment be given recent rule changes?