The buyout firm has made a 178p per share bid for Inventive Leisure, the AIM-listed owner of the UK vodka bar chain.
The European mid-market buyout firm sells French CCTV business UDL for a money multiple of almost 4x.
Prides Capital has led a group of hedge funds to take travel services group Pegasus Solutions private, providing further evidence of the hedge-fund incursion into private equity.
Just days after the drug was approved by federal drug authorities, San Francisco-based Paul Capital announced a partial royalty interest in ROTATEQ, a Merck vaccine.
The UK buyout group has reportedly seen off competition from three other European private equity firms to claim the German medical products business.
The Paris- and Boston-based firms are acquiring Belgium’s VCST Industrial Products for an undisclosed price.
One of China’s largest pharmaceutical groups is attracting interest from private equity firms after reportedly announcing that it wants to sell a large stake to foreign buyers.
The Nordic mid-market buyout house has sold VSM Group to US private equity firm Kohlberg & Company.
Advent International and Highland Capital have nabbed a 48 percent stake in lululemon athletica, a maker of women’s athletic wear. The pair invested $93 million in the company.
Providence Equity Partners has reportedly completed its third European telecoms deal in a fortnight, buying its co-owners’ stakes in the German cable TV operator.