Mid market private equity firm Palamon Capital Partners has concluded a transaction with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), to provide a GBP23 million financing package for its portfolio company, Cambridge Education Group. The deal includes a dividend recapitalisation for equity holders and additional debt financing for continued growth.   Cambridge Education

JP Morgan Private Equity Limited (JPEL) has agreed in principle to terms on a new multi-currency credit facility with a longer maturity date with Lloyds TSB Bank plc.  The new facility will expire in January 2017 and contains similar covenants to the Company’s existing $150 million multi-currency facility which was

PineBridge Investments, the global multi-asset class investment manager, has successfully closed its latest collateralised loan obligation (CLO), Galaxy XII CLO, Ltd. The issuance was comprised of approximately USD412.5 million of notes and closed on 24 April, 2012. The notes are secured by broadly syndicated first-lien senior secured corporate loans and

Ingenious has successfully closed the fund raising for ten Ingenious Solar UK EIS companies. The fund raise exceeded its target and the majority of the aggregate funds raised have now been deployed. Each Ingenious Solar UK EIS company has acquired a portfolio of solar photovoltaic panels which are fitted on

Bangalore-based affordable medical technology and solutions company Forus Health Pvt Ltd (Forus) has successfully raised Series A funding of USD5 million from venture capital funds, Accel Partners and IDG Ventures India. Unitus Capital was the sole advisor to Forus for the transaction. Forus’ mission is to address the healthcare delivery

Ciklum, an innovative IT outsourcing company specialising in nearshore software development in Eastern Europe, in Ukraine and Belarus, has sold a minority stake to Horizon Capital, a regional private equity fund manager. The funding for this deal comes from Horizon Capital’s Emerging Europe Growth Fund II (EEGF II), which was

Private equity firm Superior Capital Partners has acquired KDM from CoActive Technologies as an add-on acquisition to its user-interface and product identification portfolio company, Nelson-Miller, Inc.  The transaction represents the eleventh acquisition from Superior’s 2008 inaugural fund and the seventh acquisition since the beginning of 2011.     Nelson-Miller, based in

Funds affiliated with CVC Capital Partners (CVC) are to purchase majority ownership of AlixPartners with the firm’s exisiting 125 managing directors maintaining a considerable equity stake in the enterprise. The transaction is subject to  closing conditions and is expected to close this summer. Terms of the transaction have not been

Ingenious’ Entertainment VCTs (www.ingeniousvcts.co.uk), which recently agreed terms for the successful exit of its stake in the Creamfields dance festival, has made an investment in Liverpool Sound City, a well-established three day international music, media and technology conference and live arts and music festival. The forthcoming (May 17 – 19)