Livingbridge buys majority stake in VC-backed Semafone
Livingbridge has acquired a majority stake in Semafone, a UK-based data security and compliance software developer backed by VCs including Octopus Ventures and BGF.
Livingbridge has acquired a majority stake in Semafone, a UK-based data security and compliance software developer backed by VCs including Octopus Ventures and BGF.
Five Arrows Principal Investments has made a £120m investment in UK-based construction software developer Causeway Technologies, taking a minority stake in the company.
Entries for the 2021 Unquote British Private Equity Awards are now open - enter your firm before 2 July to showcase your success in the past year.
UK-headquartered mid-market private equity firm Bridgepoint has announced its potential intention to list on the London Stock Exchange.
UK private equity house Livingbridge has agreed a majority investment in call and contact centre data security and compliance specialist Semafone. The post Livingbridge aims to tap into $150bn info security, risk market with Semafone
Mid-market UK buyout house Phoenix Equity Partners is set for a 4.3x return selling Rayner Surgical to fellow PE house CVC Capital after trebling its EBITDA, AltAssets understands. The post Phoenix Equity bags 4.3x return
EQT has tapped its recently-closed €15.6bn Fund IX to agree a buyout of workforce management business PRO Unlimited Global Solutions from Harvest Partners. The post EQT’s €15.6bn Fund IX to be more than half invested
Phoenix Equity Partners is set for a better-than 5x return after agreeing to sell its stake in Sygnature Discovery to Rothschild & Co's private equity arm, AltAssets understands. The post Phoenix Equity to seal better-than
Phoenix Equity Partners has confirmed it has sold Sygnature Discovery, a UK-based drug discovery firm, to Five Arrows Principal Investments.
Britain is now ‘ideal territory’ for activist investors, with the pent-up demand for change that has been dormant for the past year finally starting to be unleashed
There have been 16 Spacs raising a total of $4.4bn on European exchanges so far in 2021, but only three in the UK
UK private equity house Bridgepoint has made a surprise announcement that it plans to list on the London Stock Exchange. The post Bridgepoint makes surprise bid to list on London Stock Exchange as AUM continues
UK-listed companies have never been so attractive to overseas private equity buyers
European software-focused private equity house Hg has agreed to sell workforce management software provider Allocate to RLDatix in a trade deal, seven years after taking the company private from the London Stock Exchange. The post
CMR Surgical, a UK-based surgical robotics business, has raised $600m in a series-D financing led by Japan-based investment conglomerate SoftBank.
What the FCA wants and what the EU wants are still relatively similar
Apax Partners has picked up a pair of commitments to its $1.5bn-targeting second digital fund. The post Apax Partners bags two more commitments for $1.5bn-targeting sophomore digital fund first appeared on AltAssets Private Equity News.
Two former investment managers at Aberdeen Standard have launched a firm called Bread Street Capital Partners, with the aim of creating a series of listed private markets funds to broaden access to the funds of
The UK has begun the process of creating its own versions of the European Union’s sustainable finance regulations, by picking a Green Technical Advisory Group to help it draft a green taxonomy. It will face
Moscow-based venture capital investor Leta Capital has launched its third $100m fund to back UK, European and US-based tech companies.
