Practice Fusion has closed a USD23 million Series B round of financing led by Founders Fund, with participation from Artis Capital Management and Glynn Capital Management, as well as returning investors Morgenthaler Ventures and Felicis Ventures. The round brings the company’s total funding to USD30 million.   "Practice Fusion revolutionises

Carey Olsen has just completed the UK’s first ever listing of a closed-ended real estate mezzanine finance fund on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in a GBP50 million deal. With instruction from Berwin Leighton Paisner with Oriel Securities as sponsor, Carey Olsen advised Duet Real Estate Finance on all Guernsey

SNR Denton advised Standard Chartered Private Equity Limited, the private equity arm of Standard Chartered Bank, in its closing of a USD75 million mezzanine investment in Hassan Mohammed Jawad & Sons BSC, a family-owned private company based in Bahrain. This is Standard Chartered Private Equity’s first proprietary investment in the

Affine Systems has closed a USD5 million round of venture capital Series B financing led by Crosslink Capital, with continued support from existing investor Highland Capital Partners. Affine has received a total of USD8 million in funding since 2007. “Affine provides clarity into video content so advertisers can buy unstructured

Doughty Hanson portfolio company Norit has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Clean Process Technologies (CPT) division to Pentair (NYSE: PNR) for EUR503 million. In 2010, CPT reported sales of €222 million and EBITDA of €35 million. CPT is a global leader in membrane and clean process technologies

Sovereign Capital, the UK private equity Buy & Build specialist, has acquired Careline Homecare Limited (Careline) – the market-leading domiciliary care provider in Newcastle – by portfolio company City & County Healthcare Group (“City & County”). This is City & County’s fifth bolt-on acquisition since Sovereign’s investment in 2009.  

After several successful investments in start-up companies, Marshall of Cambridge has formed Martlet, a corporate angel initiative headed up by investment director Peter Cowley. Each year, Martlet will invest in several early-stage companies with high growth potential, as co-investees with other angels and seed funds. Investments will be made primarily

Data from Lyceum Capital and Cass Business School’s UK Growth Buyout Dashboard shows that 23 smaller private equity buyouts worth an aggregate GBP828 million completed between 1 January and 31 March 2011 – the highest volume and value seen in any single quarter during the past two years. This quarterly