With the support of majority shareholder Perceva Capital, SHARK, the leading French supplier of motorcycle helmets, has acquired Holding Trophy, owner of motorcycle clothing and accessories brands Bagster, Bering and Ségura.   Present in over 30 countries, Holding Trophy is the French leader with over 25% market share and a

European private equity firm Cinven has completed its acquisition of Guardian Financial Services, the UK closed book of life and pensions business. Cinven reached agreement to acquire Guardian from AEGON in August 2011 for an enterprise value of GBP275 million. The transaction was originated by Cinven’s Financial Services team as

In a move reflecting increasing investor confidence in Sabien Technology and its patented M2G boiler control, specialist investment manager Amati Global Investors has doubled its shareholding in the company to 17.4%. The share purchase coincides with a recent Sabien ‘case study’ for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC

Stirling Square Capital Partners, a pan-European private equity firm focused on transformational cross-border transactions, has made a EUR40m growth capital investment into Portugal-based Omni Helicopters International. Based in Lisbon, Omni is the helicopter services specialist that was recently de-merged from the broader aviation group Omni Aviação SGPS S.A.; it owns

Geneva headquartered investment management firm Index Ventures SA has appointed Jersey-based alternative asset fund administrator EFG Securities Services as Administrator to Index Ventures Growth II (IVGII), a Jersey domiciled Venture Capital Fund which has raised EUR 500m in commitments from investors and will be making late stage investments in technology

Arma Partners acted as exclusive financial adviser to intergenia AG on the sale of a 51% stake in the firm to Oakley Capital Private Equity LP.  Oakley Capital Private Equity LP is an unlisted UK and European mid-market private equity fund with the aim of providing investors with significant long

Mbeach Software has engaged Wakabayashi Fund, LLC, a Japan and New York consulting firm, to provide investor and public relations services, capital funding services, and to present the company to institutional investors. These services will augment the funding commitment of Southridge Partners II LP to extend the company an equity

Franco-Chinese private equity investor Cathay Capital has made an equity investment in fine chemicals manufacturer Minafin. Born out of the take-over, in 2005, of SEAC assets in Beuvry-la-Forêt by Frédéric Gauchet, Minafin group has grown rapidly through acquisitions and now boasts four manufacturing sites (Beuvry la Forêt and Dunkerque in