Palamon Capital Partners has led a transaction to acquire a majority interest in beauty e-commerce specialist feelunique.com, one of Europe’s fastest growing online beauty retailers.  The transaction was agreed at a head-line enterprise value for feelunique of GBP26m.   feelunique is an online retailer of premium products in haircare, skincare,

Vance Street Capital, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has sold Micross Components, a provider of specialty electronic components, to Insight Equity, a private equity firm. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Vance Street acquired a majority interest in Micross Components in 2009 and grew the company’s revenue

Affiliates of Apollo Global Management are to acquire Aurum, a luxury jewellery retailer in the UK, which includes the Watches of Switzerland, Mappin & Webb and Goldsmiths brands within its portfolio. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of 2013 and is subject to customary closing conditions.

High Road Capital Partners has completed the acquisition of Accurate Component Sales, the ninth platform company for its debut fund, High Road Capital Partners Fund I.  Based in New Brighton, Minnesota, Accurate is a distributor of industrial fasteners, hardware and components to manufacturers in the upper Midwest.    “Accurate’s consultative

Ongoing access to capital and financing, strengthened balance sheets and divestiture activity will continue to fuel deal activity in 2013, according to PwC US.  An acceleration of deals taking place during the final months of 2012 may result in a lull in activity during the first quarter; however, these sound

Private equity firm PAI Partners has completed the purchase of a 78.6 per cent stake in Marcolin, an Italian eyewear manufacturer, in a proprietary primary LBO transaction in one of its core investment sectors. The purchase has been carried out by Cristallo, a company indirectly controlled by certain investment funds

Albion Ventures has sold its six cinema investments for approximately GBP12.5m. Funds managed or advised by Albion Ventures initially invested GBP1.2m alongside UK art-house cinema operator City Screen to develop the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse in 1999. Albion subsequently invested further funds to develop the Picturehouse at FACT in Liverpool in

US deal flow is likely to remain tempered in 2013 with activity remaining at or near a 10-year low. Ernst & Young’s transaction advisory services says macroeconomic ambiguity combined with a continued corporate focus on lower risk, organic growth opportunities and smaller, strategic deals will define deal-making in 2013. "In