Private equity firm GMT Communications Partners (GMT) has agreed to sell Seagull Group (Seagull), a provider of technology-enabled training and compliance tools for the maritime, oil and gas industries, to Herkules Capital.  Closing is expected in mid-June.  The sale of Seagull delivers a 2.3x return to GMT in two and

Key Capital Partners (KCP) has exited mobile telecoms support services provider WHP Group via a secondary buy-out by Palatine Private Equity, which sees KCP achieve a 4x return on its investment.  Warrington-based WHP, which currently employs over 275 staff, provides end-to-end services for the deployment, upgrade and maintenance of mobile

LBO France is in exclusive negotiations with Equistone Partners for the sale of Averys, a European producer of storage systems, racks and metallic furniture.  The transaction remains subject to necessary consultations and approvals and could be finalised in the coming months.   In 2013, under the impulsion of LBO France,

Beringea, manager of the ProVen Venture Capital Trusts, has sold the VCTs’ stakes in Speed Trap Holdings (STH), a digital data analytics company, to IS Solutions plc. STH is the parent company of Celebrus Technologies – the developer of software that allows organisations to understand their customers’ interactions with their

Private equity firm ACE & Company has sold its stake in Moulin d’Or, a Tunisian baked goods manufacturer, to strategic investor Supreme Group.  The firm invested alongside the Abraaj Group, a leading private equity investor, in Moulin d’Or in late 2012. Moulin d’Or sold more than 200 million cakes in

Bloomsbury Publishing has acquired Osprey Publishing Ltd, the Oxford-based military and natural history publisher, from private equity investor Alcuin Capital Partners LLP. The Osprey group consists of Osprey Military, Heritage and Custom Publishing, and British Wildlife Press. Osprey Military is the world's best known military history brand, publishing titles with

Cross Atlantic Capital Partners (XACP) has completed the exit of its investment in Health Market Science (HMS) with LexisNexis Risk Solutions to acquire the supplier of health care professional data. “Cross Atlantic Capital Partners’ investment, completed in 2010, allowed HMS to invest heavily in its technology platform which enabled us

Private equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP) has exited its investment in Nurse Plus to a secondary MBO funded by Sovereign Capital (Sovereign) and led by Nurse Plus CEO Heath Blake and MD Pamela Bruce. The transaction gives KCP an attractive return on its original investment and represents the firm's

KKR has sold its remaining stake in Alliance Boots to Walgreens Boots Alliance following the exercise by Walgreens of the call option to acquire the remaining 55% of Alliance Boots as the second step of the overall transaction.  In August 2012, Walgreens acquired 45% of Alliance Boots in the first