Ingenious Ventures, a manager of VCTs in the entertainment sector, has completed a GBP1.5 million investment to launch two new music festivals in the UK. Ingenious is already well known as an investor in top dance festival, Creamfields (pictured), amongst others. This significant investment, which will be used to launch

Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, has sold Advanced Childcare to GI Partners, a private equity firm focused on investments in asset-intensive businesses and real estate platforms, for GBP28 million.  Advanced Childcare, which is based in Stockport, Greater Manchester, provides care and education to young people with behavioural, emotional

Harvest Power, a producer of renewable energy and fertilizer products from organic waste, has raised USD51.7 million in Series B financing. Generation Investment Management, a London-based firm, led the round with DAG Ventures and Keating Capital also participating alongside pre-existing investors Kleiner Perkins, Waste Management (NYSE: WM), Munich Venture Partners,

Golden Gate Capital is to sell its majority stake in J. Jill to an affiliate of Arcapita Bank BSC. J. Jill, a leading multi-channel retailer of women’s apparel, will continue to be led by President and CEO Paula Bennett and the current management team. As part of the transaction, Golden

Royalton Capital Investors II, a private equity fund focused on making investments in Central and Eastern Europe, has acquired a 100% stake in Litcargus UAB, Lithuania’s leading ground handling company, from Cerberus Holdings Ltd. The acquisition of Litcargus marks Royalton’s first investment in Lithuania and second in the Baltic States.

Private equity firm Olympus Partners has sold K-Mac Holdings Corp, the third largest Taco Bell franchisee in the country, operating 167 Taco Bells, mainly in the Southwest. It also owns KFC and Golden Corral restaurants, which together with the Taco Bell stores total 190 premises.   Olympus and management acquired

Beringea, manager of the ProVen VCTs, has announced it has provided a GBP2.65 million investment package to software company MatsSoft. This expansion capital funding will come from ProVen VCT and ProVen Growth & Income VCT. MatsSoft is a software company providing powerful and innovative web-based workflow and communications solutions. The

Over USD814bn of leveraged buyout (LBO) debt, spread over 6,055 deals held by private equity portfolio companies globally, is due to mature over the next six years with over USD80bn (across 752 deals) due for refinancing this year alone. A peak of almost USD200bn is expected in 2014, according to a new report

Carey Olsen has advised Close Brothers Group plc on the sale of its trust, fund administration, asset management and banking businesses in Jersey and Guernsey to Kleinwort Benson for GBP29.1 million.   The deal between two of the largest administration groups in the Channel Islands is the largest sale across