Done Deals

• Finadvance Capital has acquired a 57 per cent stake in French bookstore Decitre. The founding family will retain a 37 per cent stake, with the remaining 6 per cent being held by Espin Participations
• Baird Capital-backed Choices Holdings, a provider of assisted living and residential care services, has acquired Domicillary Care, a care provider based in Scotland
• Chinese steelmaker Sinosteel has taken control of 98 per cent of Midwest, an Australian ore prospector
• Seattle-based Ygnition Networks, a provider of television, high-speed internet, and digital telephone services announced the purchase of Convergent Broadband Communications
• Baugur, an Icelandic investor that owns House of Fraser and Oasis, has sold its Julian Graves chain of health food shops to Holland & Barrett, its larger rival, for an undisclosed sum
• German auto components manufacturer Continental has taken over all the assets of Finland-based winter tyre stud manufacturer Tikka Spikes
• Rapid7, a provider of unified vulnerability management services announced it has secured $7 million (£3.8 million) in growth funding from Bain Capital Ventures

Deals in the pipeline

• Spectris, an instrumentation and controls company, is set to acquire Siemens’ Machine Vision Business, formerly Acuity CiMatrix, for £11.5 million
• It has been reported that Qualitas Equity Partners has acquired a 20 per cent stake in social networking site Tuenti
• Banco Sabadell, through its Aurica XXI fund, and Corporación Caja Navarra have signed an agreement to acquire a 30 per cent stake in Spanish lighting specialist J Feliu de la Penya
• Actuant Corporation announced the signing of an agreement to acquire the stock of Cortland from an investor group lead by Cortec Group for $230 million (£126.5 million)
• Neose Technologies announced that it has signed an agreement with Novo Nordisk and BioGeneriX to acquire Neose for $43 million (£23.6 million)
• Sara Lee has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Café Moka, a family-owned coffee business located in the São Paulo metropolitan area in Brazil. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed