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Gilde Equity Management appoints van Breukelen as managing partner

van Breukelen joins Gilde having worked for the last three years as a senior advisor to private equity firm Permira Advisers and Barclays Bank.

Appointments

Healthcare-focused private equity activity reaches record highs

As of November, 585 healthcare-focused deals worth a total of $56bn (€49bn) have closed in 2018, putting the year on track to surpass 2017's record.

Data Dry Powder Fundraising Healthcare

Epiris hires Xiao to investor relations team

Xiao joins from Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets where she worked on investments in the transport and utilities sectors.

EXCLUSIVE: RJD Partners generates 92 per cent IRR with Barber exit

Barber made two bolt-ons during RJD’s investment period, acquiring UK-based The Tattoo Shop and France-based P’tit Rock.

Consumer E-commerce

ESO-backed Turbine Efficiency Group bolts on Gas Turbine Applications

Based in Oklahoma, GTA provides companies in the power, oil and gas, and industrial sectors with gas turbine overhaul, repair and testing services.

Bolt-on Merger

FSN Capital acquires Germany’s Rameder Group

The investment is the Nordic-focused firm’s first in Germany since it opened an office in Munich earlier this year.

Acquisition Automotive Buyouts

BaltCap to launch €100m tech-focused venture fund

The fund will be a 50/50 joint venture between BaltCap and JBIC IG Partners, a Japanese government-backed private equity firm.

Fundraising Technology Venture Capital

Main-backed Enovation bolts on healthcare data platform Meddex

The acquisition is part of Enovation's buy-and-build strategy to become a leading provider of healthcare software in North West Europe.

Bolt-on Buy-and-build Healthcare

Mayfair makes play for ferry operator Wightlink

Wightlink’s current owners, Basalt Infrastructure Partners, paid £230m (€257.5m) to acquire the company in 2015.

Acquisition Bidding War Private Equity Transport

LDC exits Amberon to H2 Equity Partners

Over its 18-month hold, LDC has helped to increase Amberon’s turnover by 23 per cent, open six new depots and created more than 50 new jobs.

Main Capital acquires regtech software company cleversoft

Dutch software specialist Main Capital has acquired a strategic stake in cleversoft, a regtech software company based in Munich.

Acquisition Saas Software

Phoenix-backed Bridge Leisure bolts on ninth UK holiday park

Milton Keynes-based Bridge Leisure has trebled the number of holiday parks in its portfolio since its management buyout completed in 2015.

Bolt-on

Waterland’s ATOS acquires MediaPark Klinik

The deal marks ATOS’ fourth bolt-on overall and its second in Cologne, following the acquisition of the Orthoparc clinic last April.

Bolt-ons Buy-and-build Care Homes Healthcare Portfolio Companies

Rozetka-Evo merger creates Ukraine ecommerce forerunner

The merger will create one of Ukraine’s largest ecommerce businesses, boasting two billion site visits and enabling 30 million online transactions per year.

E-commerce It Services Merger Online Retail

Mobeus backs academic research platform Kudos

Kudos currently serves around a quarter of a million researchers, with more than 10,000 academic institutions in 190 countries active on its platform.

Acquisition Data Digital

UI Gestion and Alliance Entreprendre acquire food supplier Treo

Both firms invest alongside Treo’s leaders, Thierry Girardeau and Dominique Marrast, as well as the company’s founders who are reinvesting.

Acquisition Agriculture Private Equity