A company backed by global private investment firm Permira has made a significant investment in PharmaCord, a provider of patient services for the pharmaceutical industry, which will continue to be led by founder and CEO Nitin Sahney.

US private equity firm Charlesbank Capital Partners has made an investment in Quorum Cyber, which is intended to help the global cybersecurity firm accelerate its growth strategy through talent recruitment and expansion of its services.

Private equity firms YFM Equity Partners and Par Equity, alongside an angel syndicate, have made an £8.7m growth capital investment into Fuuse, a UK provider of electric vehicle charging software.

JC Flowers & Co, the New York-based private equity firm founded by former Goldman Sachs partner James Christopher Flowers and focusing on the financial services industry, has sold First Bank (Romania) to Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo.

Middle-market private equity firm Freshstream will acquire a controlling stake in Dutch IT infrastructure-as-a-service provider Worldstream.

LDC, a private equity investor which is part of Lloyds Banking Group, has exited its investment in Cardel, a manufacturer and supplier of components used in the production of secure ID documents, and payment cards, to Lifco.

New Mountain Capital, a growth-oriented private investment firm with approximately $50bn in assets under management, has closed a ‘significant’ growth investment in Grant Thornton, a US provider of audit, assurance, tax and advisory services.

French private equity firm Eurazeo has sold its 25% stake in MCH Private Equity, an asset manager specialising in small-cap private equity investments in Spain.

Private equity firm 777 Partners’ bid to acquire English Premier League football team Everton FC has failed after the investment firm failed to complete a deal to acquire Farhad Moshiri’s majority stake in the club by Friday’s deadline, according to a report by Reuters.