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Private equity down but not out

Crashing deal values aren't discouraging the private equity industry. More than half of the respondents of Grant Thornton's Private Equity Barometer concluded that private equity investments will pick up. 

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Inflexion exits Health Care Knowledge International

Mid-market private equity investor Inflexion has sold IASIST, the Iberian division of performance measuring specialist Healthcare Knowledge International.

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Freedom4 Group Plc in acquisition spree

Freedom4 Group Plc, an Uxbridge-based provider of personal wireless broadband services, has agreed to acquire rivals Daisy and Vialtus for a combined value of £123 million.

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AEC buys Malvern House

AEC Education Plc, a Singapore-based provider of education services, has acquired London-based rival Malvern House Group for up to £3.9 million. 

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Credit crunch catches up with mid-market M&A

The number of mergers and acquisitions in the UK mid-market has dropped to the lowest level since 1995, according to business advisory firm Grant Thornton.

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Only 28 AIM CEOs are women

Women head just two per cent of AIM-listed companies, and only five per cent of financial directors on the market are female, research reveals.

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Max Property’s at home on AIM

The arrival of Max Property gave a boost to AIM and the market as a whole, since its accompanying placing was oversubscribed and pulled in a plentiful £220 million of new cash.

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Access Intelligence buys Ether-Ray

Access Intelligence Plc, a London-based professional services company, has acquired Ether-Ray, a software business that specialises in the public sector, for £2.4 million in cash.

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Max Property’s at home on AIM

The arrival of Max Property gave a boost to AIM and the market as a whole, since its accompanying placing was oversubscribed and pulled in a plentiful £220 million of new cash.

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Access Intelligence buys Ether-Ray

Access Intelligence Plc, a London-based professional services company, has acquired Ether-Ray, a software business that specialises in the public sector, for £2.4 million in cash.

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Baqus Group acquires Nigel Rose

London-based surveyor Baqus Group Plc has acquired local rival Nigel Rose Group for an undisclosed sum.

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Bloomsbury waves wand at Tottel

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, the company behind the Harry Potter series, has acquired West Sussex-based Tottel Publishing for £9.9 million in cash.

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Daisy joins AIM via reverse takeover

Business-to-business telecoms company Daisy Communications is to become an AIM-listed business following the reverse takeover of Freedom4 Group.

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Tottel sold to Harry Potter publisher

Matrix Private Equity Partners has sold law and tax publishing company Tottel to Bloomsbury, the publisher of the Harry Potter novels.

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