Jo Nash

Advent Venture Partners, a London-based venture capital firm, has invested €15m in Speciality European Pharma in the first substantial financing round.

The Mill, a UK advertising visual effects company, has been bought by The Carlyle Group and the management team for an undisclosed sum, thought to be more than £50m.

ECI Partners, a UK mid-market buyout firm, is selling Enviros, the UK’s largest independent environmental consultancy business, to Alfred McAlpine for £30m or 2.6 times the investment.

Frontiers Capital, a specialist telecoms and technology venture capital firm, hires Charlie Parker from Boston Consulting Group.

Linklaters plugs gap left by departing partners with the appointment of Ian Bagshaw, a private equity partner, to join the law firm’s London office.

ECI Partners, a UK mid-market buyout firm, is selling Enviros, the UK’s largest independent environmental consultancy business, to Alfred McAlpine for £30m or 2.6 times the investment.

Frontiers Capital, a specialist telecoms and technology venture capital firm, hires Charlie Parker from Boston Consulting Group.

Linklaters plugs gap left by departing partners with the appointment of Ian Bagshaw, a private equity partner, to join the law firm’s London office.

First Reserve, a US private equity firm that specialises in the energy sector, is selling Aquilex to Harvest Partners.

Jeremy Samuel, previously a director of private equity at Sydney-based ANZ Capital, is planning to operate Anacacia Capital in less competitive waters.