LDC has led a secondary buy-out of Ocean Outdoor on the back of the business increasing its revenue by three-fold during Smedvig Capital's four year involvement.
Mid-market private equity investors RJD Partners have backed the £30 million buy-out of Intrinsic Technology from its founder and majority shareholder Allan Gauld.
In the first six months of the year, private equity houses showed their appetite for food sector deals, according to a report by accountant and business adviser PKF.
The developer of a system allowing art gallery visitors to purchase prints via the internet has been acquired by turnaround specialist RCapital for an undisclosed sum.
Jon Moulton, the founder of private equity group Alchemy Partners, believes that the credit crunch will trigger a number of 'large leveraged buy-out failures' in the year ahead.
The UK buy-out market has hit a record high of £8.5 billion for the first nine months of 2007, already 45 per cent higher than the whole of 2006, according to data from the Centre for Management Buy-out Research (CMBOR).
