Carlyle Buys Special Effects Shop The Foundry

Buyout shop the Carlyle Group has acquired a majority stake in The Foundry Visionmongers Ltd., a developer of visual effects software used in movies ranging from Avatar to Alice in Wonderland to Black Swan. Carlyle bought the stake from Advent Venture Partners. Terms of the deal were not released. The founders and management will continue to retain a significant minority stake in London-based The Foundry.

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