Patron Capital has acquired Motor Fuels Group Limited (MFG) in a joint venture with a new management team backed by oil industry veteran, Alasdair Locke. MFG owns and operates 58 mostly freehold petrol filling stations and associated convenience retailing stores located throughout the United Kingdom; it is the fifth largest chain

Unipapel SA has completed the purchase of the Continental European business of Spicers Group initiated in the past year. The seller was FTSE 250 company DS Smith plc. The purchase price was approximately EUR222 million. A team of German lawyers from CMS Hasche Sigle led by partner Dr Jochen Schlotter

Golden Crescent Investments, a Citadel Capital opportunity-specific fund, has signed a share purchase agreement to sell 100% of its interest in National Petroleum Company Egypt Limited (NPC Egypt), a wholly owned portfolio company, to Sea Dragon Energy Inc (Sea Dragon) (TSX-V: SDX), a Calgary-based exploration and development company. Sea Dragon

Mid-market private equity firm Bowmark Capital has backed the GBP32 million management buy-out of CSL DualCom (CSL) – the UK’s largest provider of dual-signalling products and services for intruder alarms – from Octopus. CSL pioneered dual-signalling technology, whereby signals are transmitted over both a traditional fixed telephone line and a

Lithuania SME Fund managed by BaltCap has completed a growth capital investment in Labochema, a leading pan-Baltic laboratory supply provider. This is the third investment made by BaltCap’s Lithuania SME Fund.  Labochema (consisting of Labochema LT, Labochema Latvija and Labochema Eesti) is the leading provider of laboratory supplies and related

High Street Capital has sold its interest in Mac & Massey (Massey Fair) to Batory Foods, Inc. With branch locations across the continental US, Massey sources and distributes food ingredients for food manufacturers nationwide. Massey’s customers range from local niche, specialty food manufacturers to the Fortune 500. Massey’s management team

Preqin’s quarterly deal flow data shows that there were 624 private equity-backed buyout deals in Q4 2011, valued at a total of USD56.7bn – an 8% decrease from Q3 2011. Q4 2011 saw 212 exits valued at USD41.2bn, representing a 27% fall from the USD56.3bn of exits in Q3 2011.

Albion Ventures has invested in Hilson Moran Holdings Limited to enable the staff of Hilson Moran Partnership Limited (Hilson Moran), an engineering and environmental consultancy, to carry out a GBP5 million MBO and gain independence from the UK subsidiary of Altran Technologies. Hilson Moran provides consultancy in building services, sustainability,

EIIB has completed an investment in Rasmala Holdings Limited, an investment bank operating in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and Egypt specialising in asset management, investment banking, brokerage and research. Rasmala was one of the first regional investment banks to be licensed by the Dubai Financial Services Authority with