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Higland Venture leads £1m investment in Ice Factor
Higland Venture, the Scottish Enterprise fund and founder Jamie Smith have injected £1m in Ice Factor, an ice-climbing wall operator based in Kinlochleven.
WL Ross joins bid for EBS
US distressed investments specialist WL Ross will join the Cardinal-led consortium in a bid for EBS Building Society, according to media reports.
Oxford Technology Management et al. invest £2.5m in Microvisk
A pool of institutional and angel investors has provided UK medical equipment company Microvisk with a £2.5m round of funding.
Balderton Capital et al. inject €3m into Socowave
Balderton Capital has led a €3m series-A funding round for Irish telecommunications specialist Socowave.
Matrix boosts placement team
The investment banking division of Matrix Group has hired Vincenzo Narciso as a partner in its London-based private funds group.
Palamon exits OmniBus via €36.4m trade sale
Palamon Capital Partners has continued its strong run of exits in 2010 with the sale of its broadcast software portfolio company OmniBus Systems Ltd to the listed Canadian firm Miranda Technologies Inc for €36.4m in cash.
Advent and No 8 Ventures invest £1m in OpenCloud
Advent Venture Partners and No 8 Ventures have invested £1m in software company OpenCloud, as part of a £5m funding round.
Investments in Asia: Eastern Promise
European nations may have deep historical ties with the Asia Pacific region, but their GPs, and to a lesser extent LPs, have largely been late entrants to the region. This may be changing, though, as Asian Venture Capital Journal’s managing editor Paul...
Next Wave-backed Future Thinking merges with SPA
Next Wave Partners has backed the merger of its portfolio company Future Thinking (formerly known as TORA) with another market research company SPA.
Graphite Capital leads U-POL MBO
Graphite Capital has completed the £130m tertiary buyout of automotive care products U-POL from AAC Capital Partners.
Hawkpoint hires new managing director
Hawkpoint Partners has appointed Dan Clague as new managing director.
Bridges Ventures exits The Office Group
Bridges Ventures has sold office space provider The Office Group in a £43.3m management buy-back.
SEP et al. invest in Elonics
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), Octopus Ventures and existing investors have injected £6.1m into fabless semiconductor company Elonics.
Dunedin to sell OSS
Dunedin has put UK waste lubricant and oils recycler OSS up for sale after receiving a number of unsolicited approaches.
LDC acquires stake in Mountain Warehouse
LDC has acquired a significant minority stake in the outdoor specialist Mountain Warehouse valuing the company at over £50m.
KKR-owned Alliance Boots offloads pension liabilities
Alliance Boots, owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and private investor Stefano Pessina, has offloaded the pension liabilities of 3,000 former Alliance UniChem employees, according to reports.
Standard Life head warns against opportunistic takeovers
Standard Life's head of UK equities David Cumming has advised shareholders to resist opportunistic takeover bids, following the £2.89bn take private of Tomkins.
Candover to sell-off Equity Trust
Candover is rumoured to be in talks with Doughty Hanson to sell its Equity Trust portfolio company.
Rabo leads €3.6m round for Voltea
Voltea Limited has received €3.6m from a group of investors led by Rabo Ventures.
Key injects £5m in Dwell
Key Capital Partners (KCP) has invested £5m in furniture retailer Dwell to support its expansion strategy.
Dubai Capital-owned Alliance Medical launches sale process
Dubai International Capital (DIC) portfolio company Alliance Medical has launched a sale process, which will run alongside restructuring plans, according to reports.
Foresight invests in Vertal and Closed Loop
Foresight Group has injected further funding into London recycling specialists Vertal and Closed Loop Recycling.
LDC exits Vision Security Group
FTSE 100 company Compass Group has acquired LDC-backed security services specialist Vision Security Group (VSG) for £64m.