The Carlyle Group has made a significant investment in Addison Lee, a well-known brand in the transportation and private hire services in London and the South East of England.   Capital for this investment will come from Carlyle Europe Partners III, a EUR5.4bn fund that makes mid and large cap

Gruner + Jahr, advised by CMS Hasche Sigle, has sold its stakes in various Polish companies that handle G+J’s magazine business in Poland to Burda International.   Bertelsmann and Constanze (Jahr Group) were also included on the vendor side.   The Polish G+J companies publish well-known titles such as Gala,

Lyceum Capital-backed Access Group, a developer of business management software, has acquired SaaS-based staff planner and team management solution TeamSeer, increasing the number of subscribers to its cloud-based platform aCloud.   The transaction represents Access’ ninth add-on since Lyceum Capital invested in the company in March 2011.   Access is

European Capital and its affiliates have received proceeds of EUR7.2m from exiting their investments in Scaff’holding.   European Capital realised a circa 1.8x money multiple on its initial investment, representing a circa 13 per cent IRR.   In April 2007, European Capital invested EUR7.5m in the mezzanine facility, along with

Fits.me has secured total series A investment of close to GBP5m led by existing investor SmartCap, with new participation from Conor Venture Partners, Fostergate Holdings and The Entrepreneur’s Fund. Previously, in May 2009 and August 2010, the company received total seed and early-stage investment of just under GBP1.75m from Smartcap

Private equity firm The Riverside Company has added Pennsylvania-based TerraSim to its Bohemia Interactive Simulations sro platform.   Bohemia develops and provides games for training technology and interactive simulation systems for defence, emergency and mission-critical customers.   TerraSim delivers to Bohemia its capabilities in automated terrain generation software, which is

Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners’ BioDiscovery 4 – its fourth fund dedicated to life sciences – has made its first investment through its participation in the series A financing round of Allecra Therapeutics, which it co-leads with Forbion Capital Partners.   EMBL Ventures is also part of the syndicate.  

BDA, along with its co-adviser in France, Easton Corporate Finance, has advised Aixam Mega’s shareholders, including the majority shareholder AXA Private Equity, on the divestment of Aixam Mega Group to Polaris Industries of the US, a manufacturer of snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles.   Despite a challenging economic environment in Europe,

The number of mergers and acquisitions deals that leak has declined dramatically over the last two years, as the risks from leaking rise and regulatory pressures increase, according to research from IntraLinks.   The research study, conducted with the M&A Research Centre at Cass Business School, London and Remark, examined