BGF has exited its investment in CHS Healthcare, a provider of outsourced services for the NHS and social care, following its acquisition by Acacium Group (formerly known as Independent Clinical Services), a specialised healthcare solutions partner with its head office in London.

Private equity investor Francisco Partners is to acquire family history specialist MyHeritage.Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Since 2003, MyHeritage has pioneered a new approach to discovering family history, making it easier and more accessible to millions of people around the world. Founder-led and fuelled by a

Diligent Corporation (Diligent), a governance company with a platform used by nearly 700,000 board directors and leaders, across 19,000 clients, is to acquire Galvanize, a global leader in SaaS governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software.  Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.  The Galvanize transaction follows Diligent’s planned

KB Associates (KBA), a professional services firm advising investment funds and asset managers, is to acquire EFG Fund Management SA, a Luxembourg-based management company and subsidiary of EFG International AG, the Swiss Private Banking Group. 

Yellow Wood Partners (Yellow Wood), a Boston-based private equity firm focused on investing in consumer brands and companies, is to acquire the Scholl footcare brand, which operates globally outside of the Americas, from UK-based consumer-goods company Reckitt Benckiser Group (RB).   The acquisition will reunite Scholl with the Dr Scholl’s

Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has invested GBP1 million into Fintech platform, Pockit as part of Pockit’s GBP15 million Series B funding round.  The business has secured GBP1 million funding through the North East Development Fund, supported by the European Regional Development, and GBP1.3 million via private investors, Crowdcube and the

Equistone portfolio company Amadys, a provider of passive network equipment solutions for utility infrastructures in the Benelux region, has established an initial market presence in Germany through the add-on acquisition of tso GmbH.  Based in Halver, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, tso offers splicing and measurement technology, equipment

Oghma Partners has acted as the exclusive financial adviser to the shareholders of Direct-to-Consumer, UK-based, SimplyCook Limited (SimplyCook) on the sale of the business to Nestlé.  The deal is the latest in Oghma’s healthy portfolio of successful cross-border, European transactions which have included advising Solina Group on the acquisition of

Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners’ (OEP) portfolio company Computer Design & Integration (CDI) has completed the acquisition of Kintyre Solutions (Kintyre), a system integrator with practices focused on cloud native application development, observability and investigation platforms, cloud optimisation, and various security engineering technologies.  Financial terms of the

Arma Partners has acted as financial advisor to Ardian on its acquisition of a majority stake in Jakala, in partnership with company founder Matteo de Brabant. Jakala offers an integrated set of solutions that empower enterprises to better utilise technology and data to meet modern marketing and sales requirements across