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Exponent buys handbag company

Exponent Private Equity has acquired ladies handbag brand Radley in a secondary buy-out from Phoenix Equity Partners.

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Dutch firm buys Richard Sheffield

Dutch cutlery company Amefa has bought knife manufacturer Richard Sheffield from its administrator. The Sheffield company went out of business just five months after it took out loans to relocate to Handsworth, Sheffield.

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Sirdar sold to management for £3m

Sirdar Spinning, a hand knitting yarn specialist, has been bought by its management for £3 million. Managing director Russell Morris and finance director Ian Stead acquired Sirdar Spinning from stock market-listed Sirdar.

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Employee benefit due diligence

Witold Sawin of accountancy firm Sawin & Edwards explains how more relevant due diligence is crucial

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Let the drilling begin

Deal-making fever is taking longer than expected to reach the junior end of the mining market. But it's only a matter of time before the long-awaited consolidation gains momentum.

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Aegis in iProspect bolt-on

Aegis Group plc, a marketing communications group based in London and listed on the City’s main market, has built on its 2004 purchase of iProspect with the acquisition of rmsar.car, a search engine marketing specialist in Germany.

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Vital statistics

When competition is brutal and confidence falters, due diligence can be key to the outcome of a deal, Mark Dunne reports

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Management snaps up Paintbox

Car painting company Paintbox has undergone a management buy-out from its North American parent. Read on for more deal headlines.

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Vital statistics

When competition is brutal and confidence falters, due diligence can be key to the outcome of a deal, Mark Dunne reports

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Management snaps up Paintbox

Car painting company Paintbox has undergone a management buy-out from its North American parent. Read on for more deal headlines.

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OpSec secures German purchase

OpSec Security Group plc, a supplier of anti-counterfeiting technologies and services, has acquired Munich-based provider of online brand protection and monitoring services Partners 4 Management (P4M), for up to €10.2 million (£8 million).

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Capula’s £6 million re-financing

A provider of IT automation systems that controls several of the UK’s coal-fired power stations has completed a multi-million pound re-financing.

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Penta and Investec back GRS buy-out

Private equity company Penta Capital and private bank Investec have backed the management buy-out of GRS, a headhunting firm serving the financial and legal sectors.

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Noble Health VCT blames AIM

The management of the Noble Health Fund VCT says the decline in its net asset value (NAV) per share is due to the poor share price performance of the AIM-listed companies in its portfolio.