North Africa

Barclays PE in Italian chemicals MBO

The firm has backed the E16m management buyout of an Italian chemicals group from Italian conglomerate Montedison.

Barclays Private Equity leads cosmetics MBO

Deal worth £47m enables manufacturing outsource business to buy itself out of South African VC and expand its UK business.

PR lands £20m from Bridgepoint and BoS

Bridgepoint Capital and bank of Scotland have put about £20m into a new pan-European PR firm to be headed up by Michael Murphy, formerly of Shandwick International. The new firm has already made its first acquisition.