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Montagu PE to acquire CAP from Top Right Group

Montagu Private Equity has reached an agreement to acquire CAP from Top Right Group (formerly Emap International). CAP is a market leading provider of vehicle valuation data, new vehicle information and business solutions to the automotive industry. Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close later in May, were

Matrix exits Camwood investment

Matrix Private Equity Partners LLP has sold portfolio company Camwood Limited (Camwood) to its management team. Camwood is an IT services business that specialises in application migration and portfolio management. It is a leader in its field of Application Intelligence. Four years ago Camwood spun out App-DNA, a software toolset

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BGF invests in Glasgow-based tech company

Business Growth Fund (BGF), established to help the UK’s fast growing smaller and medium sized businesses, has invested GBP3.85 million of growth capital in Glasgow based technology business M Squared Lasers. BGF will take a minority stake in the business and will join the existing board.   This is BGF’s second

Paine & Partners forms advisory relationship with SDA Ventures

Private equity investment firm Paine & Partners has formed a new advisory relationship with Steve Dubin and David Abramson of SDA Ventures LLC (SDA).  Paine & Partners and SDA will work together to identify and execute investment opportunities in the global human and animal food and nutritional products industries. "We

Arsenal Capital Partners acquires Plasticolors and Colortrend

Arsenal Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm that invests in middle-market specialty industrial, healthcare, and financial services companies, has acquired Plasticolors, Inc and Evonik Industries’ Colortrend global colourants business to create Chromaflo Technologies, the largest independent global pigment dispersion platform. Headquartered in Ashtabula, Ohio, Plasticolors, Inc. was founded

Simmons & Co announce GBP340m in completed deals

Simmons & Co in Aberdeen has completed four deals in the first quarter of 2012 with a total deal value of GBP340million. The corporate finance advisers to the energy sector are also reporting one of the strongest pipeline of deals in its history in the UK.   Simmons & Co’s

Mills & Reeve gives added juice to Langholm Capital

Law firm Mills & Reeve has advised Langholm Capital on the acquisition of 120-year-old family-run Purity Soft Drinks. Langholm, the consumer sector mid-market private equity firm whose investments include Tyrrells Potato Crisps, The Bart Ingredient Company and Dorset Cereals, acquired Purity following a management buy-in.   Originally established in 1892

Just-Eat secures USD64m funding round led by Vitruvian Partners

London based Just-Eat, the world’s largest online takeaway ordering service, has closed a financing round of USD64m (EUR48m) led by funds managed by Vitruvian Partners, a European private equity firm, with Index Ventures, Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures also participating. This investment marks the Company’s third and largest funding round

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DNV increases Arctic focus and acquires the oil-spill preparedness company NPS

DNV, a global provider of risk management solutions, has increased its Arctic focus with the acquisition of oil-spill preparedness company Norwegian Petro Service (NPS). According to Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, DNV’s COO of the Norway, Russia and Finland division, the Arctic has large oil and gas resources and operations in this sensitive

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