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Praesidian hires two investment directors
New recruits to work on lower-mid-market deal origination, structuring and execution
YFM invests £3m in CP&LH BIMBO
Shawbrook provides £4m working capital facility
YFM opens £30m VCT fundraise
YFM is looking to collect £30m across two of its VCTs
Equistone buys Travel Counsellors
GP invested via its £1.5bn Fund IV
IW Capital leads $7.5m round for WeSwap
Company to use fresh funds to support expansion across key global markets
UK Watch: strong Q3 deal activity
UK private equity remained strong in Q3 according to the latest unquote” UK Watch
Marwyn backs Haversham IPO
Haversham hopes to raise £30m ahead of acquisitions
LDC backs Capital Economics
Business generates 70% of turnover abroad, with the US the largest single market
Mobeus continues exit run with sixth sale of the year
Mobeus's divestment of Youngman lifts VCT's realisation value to £200m for 2014
Aquarius’s C4XD raises £11m in IPO
Aquarius holds a 23% stake in the business following IPO
BGF injects £7m into APSU
IT services provider to expand team and consider acquisitions
Root injects £3.15m into Keystone Law
Deal provides exit for founding partner Charles Stringer
Delta et al. invest €1m in MeetingsBooker
Funding round included several angel investors
KPMG promotes three
Two take over role previously carried out by Richard Clarke
Duff & Phelps recruits two MDs in London office
Newby and Mahalingham appointed to transfer pricing practice
Cabot Square reaps 12x on £160m Equitix sale
EV represents 5x multiple of estimated 2015 EBITDA
Foresight sells Orthoview stake to Materialise
Exit generates return for Foresight 3 VCT
Exponent sells Gorkana for £200m
Company sold to US rival, owned by PE firm GTCR
Penta consortium buys Daisy
Offer gives Daisy a market cap of £494m
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
Permira exits Arysta to Platform for $3.5bn
GP acquired agrochemical company in $2.4bn deal in 2008
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