Funds advised by Magenta Partners (Magenta) have secured their first exit in the sale of Tag Worldwide (Tag) to global Business Process Outsourcing company, Williams Lea Group. Tag Worldwide is the largest independent media design and production agency in the world with a strong blue chip customer base including H&M, Coca

Jawbone, a leading innovator of products and services for the mobile lifestyle, has secured USD70 million in funding from investors advised by JP Morgan Asset Management.   Jawbone is one of the largest privately-held, venture capital-backed consumer electronics companies in the world, and this round brings total investment in Jawbone

A company wholly owned by Better Capital Limited’s BECAP Fund has reached a formal agreement with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), to acquire a majority stake in Masco 30 Limited, a new company set up solely for the purpose of acquiring 100% of the share capital of Fairline Boat

Clearwater Corporate Finance (Clearwater), a UK member of the international mergers and acquisitions organisation, IMAP, has advised Farsound Engineering (Farsound), on its sale to RG Industries LLP (RGI), a new partnership between Rubicon Partners (Rubicon) and Grovepoint Capital (Grovepoint). Founded by the late Roger Gulperin in 1979, Farsound is a

Shamrock Capital Advisors has announced the final closing of Shamrock Capital Growth Fund III, a USD400 million fund focused on providing buyout and growth capital investments in companies in the media, entertainment and communications industries.  Shamrock targets companies benefitting from growth trends in the media, entertainment and communication sectors. The fund

Maven has successfully exited from Walker Technical Resources via a secondary buyout funded by Gresham Private Equity. The sale realised a gross return of 2.9x the initial investment in just two years, with an IRR of 70%. Walker has seen exceptional growth since Maven’s original investment in June 2009, achieving

Thirty-seven US venture capital funds raised USD2.7 billion in the second quarter of 2011, according to Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).  This level marks a 28 per cent increase by dollar commitments, but a 23 per cent decline by number of funds compared to the second

Climate Change Capital Private Equity LP (CPE) has led an EUR8m investment in Orège SA (Orège), a French company that has developed patented wastewater treatment technologies for complex effluents and sludge from the oil & gas, mining, petrochemical and chemical industries.

 CPE, which manages a EUR200m private equity fund focused

Private equity firm TLG Capital has increased its investment in Quality Chemicals Industries Ltd (QCIL), the Uganda based pharmaceutical manufacturer, to 12.5 per cent shareholding. This further deployment of funds into QCIL, a leading sub-Saharan plant, comes after the company received a Good Manufacturing Practices certification from the World Health