In today’s deal headlines Laird Group plc has bought Bluetooth supplier Ezurio for £12.5 million and UK business Greystone Financial Services has been acquired by Focus Financial Partners LLC of the US

In today’s deal headlines Laird Group plc has bought Bluetooth supplier Ezurio for £12.5 million and UK business Greystone Financial Services has been acquired by Focus Financial Partners LLC of the US

Done deals:

• SDL plc, a provider of global information management solutions, has acquired Idiom Technologies Inc for £11.1 million in a bid to enhance its technology offering

• UK building and civil engineering contractor Kier Group plc has disposed of its 50 per cent PFI investment in HairmyresHospital, which it sold to Innisfree M &G PPP Fund for £13.8 million

• AIM-listed IP support services company RWS has purchased document service centre Technische Uebersetzungen und Software-Lokalisierung GmbH (DSC) for £6.8 million

• Merill Lynch PE has bought Integrated Dental Holdings from rival private equity house LGV Capital for an undisclosed sum, reported to be around £300 million

• Irish builder Mick Whelan has expanded his business, Moritz Trading, with the acquisition of C&D Builders Providers for more than €20 million (£15 million)

• Laird Group plc, a London-headquartered global electronics, security systems and distribution group, has bought Bluetooth supplier Ezurio for some £12.5 million

• Lancashire-based industrial door parts producer North Valley Metal has been bought out by its management in a £1 million deal

• UK business Greystone Financial Services has joined Focus Financial Partners LLC, a partnership of independent financial advisers in the US that is looking to create the first global network of independent wealth management firms

• James Robinson, a manufacturer and supplier of speciality chemicals with sites in Huddersfield West Yorkshire, Germany and India, has been purchased by Essex-based rival Yule Catto for approximately $17.2 million (£8.8 million)

Deals in the pipeline:

• Faroe Petroleum, an oil and gas company working in the Atlantic Margin, the North Sea and Norway, has agreed to acquire a 14 per cent interest in Norwegian Licence PL289 from Gaz de France Norge
  
  

• Lloyd’s insurer Chaucer Holdings plc has agreed to purchase Quanta Capital Holdings’ 15 per cent shareholding in Pembroke JV for a consideration of £1