Bowmark Capital has acquired a significant minority stake in Focus Group, a UK provider of communications and IT solutions.
On-demand staffing platform, Rota, has closed a GBP3 million funding round, which was led by Puffin Point, a Family Office, with significant experience in staffing and marketplace apps. This was followed by current shareholders who continue to support Rota’s high growth technology and solutions-based staffing marketplace business. 

“The funding round will
Envases Soplados (ENSO), a Spanish producer of PET bottles that is backed by private equity firm GED Capital, has acquired Portuguese company Espaçoplas Indústria e Comercializaçao de Plásticos, SA (EPLAS).Founded in 2002 and located in Marinha Grande (Portugal), EPLAS is a producer of PET bottles for the food, cosmetic, pharmaceuticals
Nautic Partners (Nautic) has completed the acquisition of Harrington Industrial Plastics (Harrington), in partnership with company management.Founded in 1959, Harrington is a leading distributor of corrosion-resistant fluid conveyance, control, and measurement products for industrial fluids and high purity applications (eg, valves, filters, pumps, and tanks). Harrington’s products are used in
The Columbia Threadneedle European Sustainable Infrastructure Fund (ESIF) announces that it has completed the acquisition of Condor Ferries, an operator of lifeline freight and passenger ferry services between Guernsey, Jersey, the United Kingdom, and the Port of St Malo in France.The acquisition was made in consortium with Brittany Ferries, a
ClearCourse Partnership (ClearCourse), a group of technology companies providing digital services, work-flow solutions, and payments capabilities to the membership, events & bookings, sports & leisure and healthcare sectors, has acquired Felinesoft, a provider of digital and operational solutions for some of the UK’s most established businesses and charities.Since its foundation
The UK Creative Content EIS Fund has invested in Raindog Films, a UK-based production company co-founded by Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth and music industry veteran Ged Doherty, it has been announced by the Fund’s manager, Calculus Capital, and Stargrove Pictures. Writer and producer, Trish D Chetty joins the new look company
Pemberton, a diversified asset manager backed by one of Europe’s largest insurers, Legal & General Group, has worked with funds advised by BC Partners on a second lien PIK loan as part of a refinancing of their portfolio company The Aenova Group, a provider of contract pharmaceutical manufacturing and development
Property technology company Goodlord, which provides software and services to transform how people rent, has been backed by some of the UK’s most respected investors in a GBP10 million Series B round.Goodlord has raised GBP10 million from investors including Latitude Ventures, the Series B+ sister fund to LocalGlobe known for backing
Shoreline Equity Partners (Shoreline), a purpose-driven lower middle market private equity firm, has partnered with management to acquire Engelman Baking Company (Engelman’s).Engelman’s is a wholesale bakery offering a complete line of artisan breads and rolls ranging from European and hearth breads, Kaiser and twisted egg rolls to specialty dinner rolls
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