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Private Equity

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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.

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Private equity firms need to refinance debt

The majority of private equity firms do not expect the number of new buyouts to decline in the next year but many private equity houses have not refinanced their debt ‘storing up trouble for the future’, research shows.


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ECI acquires Peter Jones’s Wireless Logic

Entrepreneur and investor Peter Jones has disposed of his interest in Wireless Logic to private equity firm ECI Partners and management in a deal worth £38 million.

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Anthemis and business angels back FinanceAcar

Online car marketplace FinanceAcar has closed a venture funding round led by private equity firm Anthemis Group and several angel investors.

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Angel Springs secures investment from LDC

Private equity provider LDC has invested in water cooler business Angel Springs in order to support its buy-and-build strategy.

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Global private equity on the rise

Private equity-backed M&A has risen by 51 per cent over the same period last year, with transactions totalling $128.2 billion (£80.4 billion).

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Inflexion sees Red with sale to Dunedin

Mid-market private equity investor Inflexion Private Equity has agreed to sell portfolio company Red Commerce to Dunedin in a secondary buy-out valued at £44 million.

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Private equity fitness looks to specialisation

The private equity market has long been a difficult sector to quantify, with its opaqueness and lack of access to data meaning that performance is hard to evaluate.

Exit Strategies

Distressed exiting

In a buyer's market, private equity firms must be prepared to hold out for the right price.

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Nujira raises £10 million to expand operations

Climate Change Capital Private Equity has led a £10 million fundraising for Nujira, a developer of technology to reduce power consumption in smartphones, to expand operations.

Venture Capital Funding

Exit in an orderly fashion

When private equity firms make an investment, the exit plan is already looming large on the agenda.

Opinion

In a post crisis world private equity can play a vital role

Even the best entrepreneurial businesses need capital to grow and develop. Private equity is very much open to business.