Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in Plimsoll Productions (Plimsoll) to ITV plc in a transaction that values the independent television production company at £131 million. Plimsoll’s BAFTA, EMMY and Academy award winning team specialises in wildlife, documentary and factual entertainment shows, and is the biggest independent

Project and resource management specialist Projekt Rising has secured a £100k investment from Growth Lending to develop its project management automation technology, expand its product offering and enhance working capital.

Venture capital firm Molten Ventures has participated in a $200 million Series C funding round in CoachHub, a global digital coaching platform. The round, led by Sofina and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, will be used to further scale CoachHub’s product innovation and operations while accelerating the company’s global expansion. Following

Spirea Limited, a Cambridge company created to advance a new generation of antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) therapeutics, has secured funding of £2.4 million in an investment round led by Jonathan Milner and Cambridge Enterprise. US-based R42 Group, ACF Investors, o2h Ventures, Syndicate Room and the Cambridge Angels also participated in the

British Patient Capital has invested in Proximie, the global health technology platform digitising operating rooms around the world, as part of a $80 million Series C round. The $12.5 million investment has been made via Future Fund: Breakthrough, British Patient Capital’s £375 million programme where it co-invests with private sector

The asset management arm of Abu Dhabi state investor Mubadala has led a $100 million equity funding round in Swedish fintech Juni, according to a report by Reuters. Juni has also raise an addition $106 million in venture debt financing from Silicon Valley-based TriplePoint Capital. Juni’s existing investors – EQT

Blackstone has made progress on its $6.3 billion buyout bid for troubled casino operator Crown Resort after Australia’s gambling regulators granted the the PE firm permission to run the Crown Resorts casinos in the country’s two largest cities, according to a report by Reuters. Sydney-listed Crown, which is 37% owned

Apollo Global Management Inc is in talks to support retail store operator Franchise Group’s acquisition of department store chain Kohl’s Corp through the provision of up to $2 billion in debt financing, according to a report by Reuters.

The Riverside Company, a private equity investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has completed another add-on to its Red Nucleus (RN) platform with an investment in Actando, a global learning organisation that provides technology-enabled learning solutions to life sciences commercial teams that advance critical skills and