The three executive directors of Close Growth Capital have bought the business out of Close Brothers and changed its name to Growth Capital Partners. Growth Capital Partners provides structured equity, a combined equity and debt product, to the UK’s small to medium sized businesses.   Bill Crossan (pictured), managing partner of Growth Capital Partners, says: ‘We’ve never been more positive about the future. The UK is bursting with opportunity. Growth Capital was the first private equity firm in the UK to use structured equity to finance management buy outs. Our blended equity and debt capital structures are constructed to suit

Mid-market private equity house LDC has backed the management buyout of Liverpool-based workplace financial education and benefits firm JPMorgan Invest, which has been re-branded Wealth At

Lawyers from Carey Olsen’s corporate team have played a key role in a transaction involving Germany1 Acquisition, a special purpose acquisition company registered in Guernsey and listed

Kneip, a service provider to the investment fund industry, has expanded its network with the opening of an office in London.

LDC, the private equity arm of the Lloyds Banking Group, has invested an additional GBP8.3m into Microlease, a European provider of rental and asset management services to the test equi

Electra Private Equity’s new wholly-owned subsidiary, Electra Private Equity Investments, has undertaken an institutional cash placing through the issue of zero dividend preference shar

Median secondary bids continue to decline for interests in commercial real estate partnerships relative to private equity partnerships, according to a report by Nyppex, a global seconda

A business support and lobby group has urged the UK government to help small firms grow when Britain’s economy begins to pick up.  

The private equity sector remains hungry for deals in spite of the recession, according to a survey of 475 private equity managers by Directorbank, a private equity recruitment speciali