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KPS seals 15x healthcare exitThe firm’s $315m sale of Attends Healthcare, which it formed in 2007, is one of several high-profile healthcare exits this year.
- Bowmark Capital in 4x healthcare exit
The firm has sold Advanced Childcare for £28m (€32m; $45m), and has backed the management buyout of UK neurological rehabilitation centre Glenside Manor Healthcare.
- Marathon of Marathons: €1.2m and picking up speed
Fundraising for the Marathon of Marathons is nearly halfway to its €2.5m target. Find out how you can become a member of the event’s prestigious Supporters Club, which has been busily signing up new members.
- EU directive to ‘punish mid-market’
A proposed European directive differentiates between private equity and hedge funds, but has sparked concern among the European mid-market that managers and portfolio companies will be burdened with ‘costly and unwarranted’ reporting standards.
- August Equity acquires nursing agency
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.
- BVCA: Proposed tax changes will make UK ‘anti-competitive’
The UK's plan to raise taxes for the highest earners may cause investors to seek more favourable tax climates, such as Switzerland, Ireland and the Middle East, says BVCA chief executive Simon Walker.
- Making it count
Private equity professionals with few deals at hand may donate their skills to venture philanthropy, writes Toby Mitchenall.
- August acquires two home care companies
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.
- Silverfleet lures European Capital associate
After losing three senior investment team members already this year, European Capital has lost investment team associate Johannes Huttunen to the former captive private equity arm of Prudential.
- European Capital loses another professional
The London-listed affiliate of American Capital has lost Julian Masters to the mid-market UK firm Bowmark Capital. As well as hiring Masters as partner, Bowmark has lured Nomura’s Tom Shelford as investment director.