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  • August Equity backs £29m management buyout
    Jenny Bollen- 11 January 2013

    August Equity has backed a £29 million management buyout of a magazine publisher, its second current investment in the sector.

  • IK buys stake in German homecare provider for €300m
    Ahmed Arafa- 5 January 2013

    Commerzbank and ING have provided the senior debt package for the secondary buyout of GHD Gesundheits.

  • August Equity completes six bolt-ons in three months
    Anna Reitman- 5 January 2013

    The UK-focused private equity firm has completed six acquisitions for London and South community-care provider Enara Group.

  • August founder quits primary investment
    Toby Mitchenall- 5 January 2013

    Andrew Hartley, a founder of UK mid-market firm August Equity, has joined direct secondaries investor Chamonix Private Equity. The direct secondaries market is ‘the place to be’ as deal flow from financial institutions increases, he says.

  • Healthcare buyouts show resilience
    Matilda Battersby- 5 January 2013

    UK-based August Equity has just made its fifth and sixth add-on acquisitions to healthcare platform Enara Group. Investment in the healthcare sector, which is 'slightly immune' to current conditions, remains relatively buoyant.

  • August consolidates nursing companies
    Matilda Battersby- 5 January 2013

    The UK-based firm has added on two companies to healthcare platform Enara Group, which last week acquired Surrey-based Beech Care and Nursing Agency.

  • August Equity acquires nursing agency
    Matilda Battersby- 5 January 2013

    The UK-based firm has added on Beech Care and Nursing Agency to healthcare portfolio company Enara Group. Last year the firm exited its first buy-and-build investment in the same sector, having made eight add-on acquisitions to UK company Healthcare Homes.

  • August acquires two home care companies
    Suzanne Weinstock- 5 January 2013

    The firm has purchased Enara and First Call in a nascent buy-and-build play in the UK home care market. Last spring, August exited residential care company Healthcare Homes after eight add-ons.

  • August Equity loses managing director
    Suzanne Weinstock- 5 January 2013

    Andrew Hartley, who co-led the UK mid-market private equity firm’s spin out from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, has left after 13 years to seek ‘fresh challenges’.

  • August Equity buys UK pipefitter for £37m
    Matt Levin- 5 January 2013

    The middle market specialist has completed its acquisition of Midlands-based Accura Support Services in a buy-in management buyout from Barclays Ventures.