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Racal secures ECI backing

Mid-market buyout specialist ECI Partners has completed its second investment in as many months, supporting Harrow-based Racal Acoustics’ £52 million MBO from US private equity group JF Lehman & Co.

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£800,000 for Quotient

Diabetes testing technology developer Quotient Diagnostics has raised £800,000 from a syndicate of backers - including The Capital Fund, GEIF Ventures and NESTA - and will use the cash to develop its technologies through to commercialisation.

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Cash shells: the clock ticks

Looking for a quick route to the stock market with a tidy sum of cash thrown in for good measure? Then why not take the cash shell route. There are 88 shells on AIM, with £77.1 million in cash between them - and most of it has to be spent in the next eight months.

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AIM’s best advisers

For companies eyeing flotation, perhaps the greatest headache is securing a team of advisers to guide you through the IPO process. Fortunately, the level of expertise available remains reassuringly high, as this year’s Growth Company Awards prove.

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Growing firms urged to report competitors

Anti-competitive practices are damaging the UK's growing businesses and the Office of Fair Trading is calling for them to fight back.

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Pensions group eyes float

Phoenix Private Equity plans to put £14 million into demutualising the Pension Annuity Friendly Society ahead of an eventual share float or trade sale.

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Pivotal deal for NVM

Pivotal Laboratories, a Yorkshire-based business that conducts clinical trials for pharmaceutical and biotech firms, has completed a multi-million-pound management buyout with the aid of Northern Venture Managers (NVM).

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Helphire snaps up Swift

As foreshadowed here, accident management specialist Helphire has agreed to buy private upmarket car hire company Swift Rentacar for up to £25.2 million in shares and paper.

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Pivotal deal for NVM

Pivotal Laboratories, a Yorkshire-based business that conducts clinical trials for pharmaceutical and biotech firms, has completed a multi-million-pound management buyout with the aid of Northern Venture Managers (NVM).

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Helphire snaps up Swift

As foreshadowed here, accident management specialist Helphire has agreed to buy private upmarket car hire company Swift Rentacar for up to £25.2 million in shares and paper.

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Roche snaps up Glycart

Pharmaceutical giant Roche has boosted returns significantly at technology fund manager Quester by taking over portfolio company GlycArt for £104 million.

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Karibian cruises to AIM

American entrepreneur George Karibian, who has already built up one £47 million telecoms business in Europe, hopes to stage a repeat performance in Britain in the traditionally prosaic field of office equipment.

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Strathdon sparks Oxsensis’ potential

Oxsensis, an Oxford-based company specialising in advanced instrumentation systems for gas turbines, has secured £890,000 of early-stage funding from backers including AIM-listed Strathdon Investments.

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3i sells UbiNetics to CSR

Global venture capital group 3i has announced the sale of its stake in Cambridge-based UbiNetics for $48 million (£27.3 million), representing an 80 per cent return on investment in just 18 months.

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