WhaleShark Media has received USD150 million funding from JP Morgan Asset Management and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) bringing the company’s total funding from investors to nearly USD300 million. The capital will be used to support the company’s rapid organic growth through key strategic technology and personnel enhancements within the organisation and

LGV Capital has successfully completed the management buy-out of ABI (UK) Group Limited (ABI), a manufacturer of caravan holiday homes focusing on the UK holiday parks market. The business is based in Beverley, Yorkshire and employs approximately 300 people. LGV has backed the existing management team led by Chief Executive,

Devglass Group, an independent manufacturer and distributor of insulating glass, has refinanced its bank debt and repaid EUR35 million of senior and junior mezzanine bonds held by European Capital. European Capital will continue to hold 40% of the equity alongside Olivier Rambeau, CEO and majority shareholder of the Devglass Group.

RJD Partners (RJD) has sold its investment in TransLinc, the market leader in the provision of specialised vehicles and related services to local authorities and the utilities market, in a trade sale to May Gurney Integrated Services. The transaction values TransLinc at GBP65.6 million, giving a return to RJD of

Private equity firm Denham Capita has committed USD200M to establish an African mining platform in partnership with Pangea Exploration, a South African mining exploration company. The new business will target a wide range of opportunities across Africa. Pangea Exploration is led by Rob Still and his team, who have a

Private equity investors Warburg Pincus and GS Capital Partners are to acquire a majority stake in Endurance International Group, a provider of hosting and online services to small- and medium-sized businesses, from Accel-KKR. Endurance’s current management team and Accel-KKR will continue to maintain an interest in the Company. Terms of

Economic uncertainty is having an increasingly negative impact on the success of transactions and squeezing access to acquisition finance. Those are the key findings of the quarterly survey in October 2011 of the M&A panel polled by commercial law firm CMS Hasche Sigle and Finance magazine, comprising some 70 investment

Oragroup, the Togo-based regional commercial banking holding company with operations spanning six countries in West and Central Africa, has attracted a USD20 million growth equity investment from Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) BIO (USD7million) and PROPARCO (USD13 million). This investment marks  a major step in an ongoing focus on fundraising and

Middle market investment bank Harris Williams & Co has advised GSO Capital Partners pin the sale of its portfolio company Stolle Machinery, LLC to strategic buyer Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd. (Toyo Seikan; TSE:5901), for USD775 million.  The transaction closed on 3 November, 2011 and was led by Mike Hogan, Chris