UK private equity firm Sovereign Capital is backing the GBP10m management buy-out of RehabWorks, a provider of physiotherapy-led back to work rehabilitation services. Established in 1999, RehabWorks treats individuals with long-term, musculoskeletal disorders from its centralised triage function and its 19 rehabilitation centres across the UK together with a national

Amati Global Investors, a newly formed investment management firm, has been appointed by the board of the Victory VCT as the new fund manager.  Amati, established in January this year by Paul Jourdan (pictured) and Douglas Lawson, currently manages the Noble AIM VCT and the CF Noble UK Smaller Companies

Andrew Page, a distributor of automotive parts to UK garages, servicing centres and retailers, has received an investment from private equity firm Phoenix Equity Partners which values the business at around GBP100m.  Andrew Page is the UK’s largest regional wholesaler of automotive parts, which it distributes to customers across the

Aureos Capital, a private equity fund management company focused on small to medium-sized businesses in emerging markets, has signed up to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. The principles were established in 2005 by 20 of the world’s largest institutional investors. There are currently over 700 institutional investors, investment

Highgate Associates and Enterprise Corporate Finance’s EIS Fund, the HG Tech Fund, has reached the initial minimum funding target.  Further investment is anticipated during the final weeks of the tax year by investors looking to maximise their tax benefits. The fund has made its first high tech company investment in

Although public pension plans and their corporate counterparts were hit equally hard by the global market crisis, a study from Greenwich Associates shows they are responding to historic funding shortfalls in dramatically different fashions. With an eye toward constraints imposed by tougher accounting rules, companies that sponsor defined benefit pension

Eurazeo Group’s consolidated revenue was EUR3,785.4m in 2009, down 6.6 per cent as reported and down 5.9 per cent on a comparable basis. Revenue from private equity activity amounted to EUR3,707.3m, a decline of 4.9 per cent on a comparable basis. The real estate business increased 6.6 per cent in

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has formed a partnership with Progress Investment Management to support and cultivate smaller entrepreneurial investment management companies. Under the terms of the partnership, the Kellogg Foundation will establish up to a USD100m diversified portfolio of emerging fixed income and equity managers to be managed by Progress.