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Private Equity

Articles on UK private equity, featuring latest news on buyouts, investments and exits, plus analysis on the advantages and risks for investors and those seeking capital.

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UK exit for Matrix nets swift returns

Matrix Private Equity Partners has exited its investment in portfolio business App-DNA Group for US$92 million (£58 million).

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Picture-perfect Leica deal for Blackstone

US-based private equity firm Blackstone has snapped up a stake in luxury camera business Leica.

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ISIS Equity Partners invests £42 million in the cloud

Private equity firm ISIS Equity Partners has acquired a majority interest in cloud computing business Onyx Group, in a deal worth £42 million.

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LDC injects £15 million into SEP’s latest fund

The mid-market private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, LDC, has returned as an investor for Scottish Equity Partners, committing £15 million to the firm’s latest fund.

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Streetcar backers make new investment

Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) business The Smart Cube has received a capital injection through an investment from Smedvig Capital.

Exit Strategies

Know your exit strategy before you invest in a business

The blunt truth is that private equity houses need to understand what the exit strategy is the moment they start talking to potential investee companies. GrowthBusiness blogger Wol Kolade explains.

Venture Capital Funding

Private equity returns to the fore

After spending much of 2009 shying away from investments, private equity showed renewed strength in 2010 through its exits.

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Private equity finds fundraising tough work

Despite UK mid-market private equity increasingly on a year-by-year basis, global fundraising in the sector has slowed during 2011, says new research.

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Mid-market private equity blooms

The post-recessionary period is being characterised by secondary and management buy-outs, according to new research.

Opinion

Miliband wants to be Santa

'He knows if you've been bad or good, So be good for goodness sake! It's official, Ed Miliband's outright attack on private equity shows he wants to be Santa Claus.

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BVCA: Miliband’s private equity attack a ‘slick slogan’

Opposition leader Ed Miliband's branding of private equity firms as 'asset strippers' is nothing more than a 'slick slogan', says the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA).

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Hoberman’s mydeco secures eVenture investment

Home interiors website mydeco, founded by lastminute.com’s Brent Hoberman, has secured investment from pan-Atlantic private equity company eVenture Capital Partners.