Yorkshire and North East Dealmakers Guide 2016 - 8

TOP PRIVATE EQUITY DEALS YORKSHIRE AND NORTH EAST 8 GROWING YOUR BUSINESS Date Deal 31 May 2016 £400m investor buyout at Longs Steel UK (finance: cash, venture capital) Bidder: Greybull Capital Vendor: Tata Steel C - Greybull Capital, L - Forsters, Slaughter and May - Tata Steel UK £200m of development capital for Govia Thameslink Railway (finance: cash, bank debt, venture capital) Vendor: Go-Ahead C - SL Capital Partners - Govia Thameslink Railway, D - Aviva Investors Global. Services - Govia Thameslink Railway, L - Bond Dickinson - Govia Thameslink Railway, CMS £118m minority stake in Wakefield PFI Project SPV (finance: cash, venture capital) Bidder: Equitix Vendor: Shanks C - Equitix, L - Ashurst - Shanks, CMS £51m secondary buyout at Nexus Vehicle (finance: venture capital, cash) Bidder: Bowmark Capital C - Bowmark Capital, Living Bridge - Nexus Vehicle, FA - DC. Advisory - Bowmark Capital, Deloitte, Park Place Corporate Finance - Nexus Vehicle, PwC, L - Addleshaw Goddard, Squire Patton Boggs - Nexus Vehicle £45m of development capital for Atom Bank (finance: cash, venture capital) C - Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria - Atom Bank, FA - Canaccord Genuity - Atom Bank, L - Bond Dickinson - Atom Bank £40m secondary buyout at Morecambe Leisure 1 (finance: cash, venture capital, bank debt) Bidder: Project Rock Bidco C - Palatine Private Equity - Project Rock Bidco, RJD Partners - Morecambe Leisure 1, D - Tos cafund - Verdant Leisure, Yorkshire Bank - Verdant Leisure, FA - Clearwater International, KPMG, L - Gateley, Osborne Clarke - Morecambe Leisure 1 £25m management buy-in at 140 M local convenience stores (finance: cash, venture capital) Bidder: Mike Greene Vendor: Wm Morrison Supermarkets C - Greybull Capital - Mike Greene, FA - KPMG, L - Eversheds - Wm Morrison Supermarkets, Fladgate, Forsters £25m minority stake in Fairstone (finance: cash, venture capital) C - Synova Capital, FA - Cavu Corporate Finance - Fairstone, Deloitte - Fairstone, PwC - Fairstone, Bidder: Synova Capital L - Muckle - Fairstone, Pinsent Masons £22m startup (fund raising) by YFM Equity Partners 2016 Fund LP (finance: cash, venture capital) Vendor: YFM Equity Partners £20m investor buyout at IGF Invoice Finance (finance: cash, venture capital) Bidder: Spring Ventures Vendor: Greater London Enterprise C - Spring Ventures, FA - Clearwater International - Greater London Enterprise, RSM, Translink Corporate Finance - Spring Ventures, L - Fox Williams - Spring Ventures, MBM Commercial Greater London Enterprise, Shoosmiths £17.3m of development capital for JLA Equityco (finance: venture capital, cash) C - HgCapital - JLA Equityco, FA - Robert W Baird & Co £17m startup (fund raising) by Finance for Business North East (FBNE) fund (finance: cash, venture capital, bank debt) Vendor: North East Access To Finance C - European Investment Bank - Finance for Business North East (FBNE) Fund, North East Local Enterprise Partnership - Finance for Business North East (FBNE) Fund, D - European Invest ment Bank - Finance for Business North East (FBNE) Fund, L - Ward Hadaway - North East Access To Finance £12.2m acquisition of OpSec Security (finance: cash, venture capital) Bidder: Orca Bidco C - Investcorp - Orca Bidco, FA - Canaccord Genuity - Orca Bidco, Shore Capital & Corporate OpSec Security £11m of development capital for CAV Aerospace (finance: cash, venture capital) C - BECAP Fund LP - CAV Aerospace £10.87m of development capital for Performance Horizon (finance: cash, venture capital) C - DN Capital - Performance Horizon, Greycroft Partners - Performance Horizon, Mithril Capital Management - Performance Horizon £10m of development capital for Metalysis (finance: cash, venture capital) C - Woodford Patient Capital Trust - Metalysis £10m of development capital for Speedloan Finance (finance: cash, venture capital) Vendor: Asia Growth Capital C - Gordon Brothers - Speedloan Finance £8m of development capital for Nomad (finance: bank debt, cash, venture capital) C - Amadeus Capital Partners - Nomad, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments - Nomad, SEB Venture Capital - Nomad, D - Silicon Valley Bank - Nomad, L - Eversheds - Nomad, Taylor Wessing £7.6m of development capital for Wright Leisure (finance: cash, venture capital) C - Business Growth Fund - Wright Leisure, L - Squire Patton Boggs, Walker Morris - Wright Leisure £6.7m of development capital for Total Recycling Services (finance: cash, venture capital) C - Business Growth Fund - Total Recycling Services £5.4m of development capital for GEV (finance: venture capital, cash) C - HSBC - GEV, Maven Capital Partners - GEV, FA - HMT, JDC Corporate Finance - GEV, L - Gateley, Howes Percival - GEV, Mills & Reeve £5m of development capital for Rockar (finance: cash, venture capital) C - Maven Capital Partners - Rockar, NVM Private Equity - Rockar £5m investor buyout at Broker Network (finance: cash, vendor placing, venture capital) Bidder: Bravo Investment 3 Vendor: Sentry C - Highbridge Principal Strategies - Bravo Investment 3, L - Latham & Watkins - Bravo Investment 3 17 Feb 2016 3 Feb 2016 17 Dec 2015 24 Nov 2015 4 Apr 2016 9 Sep 2015 25 Apr 2016 16 Jun 2016 7 Apr 2016 23 Oct 2015 4 Apr 2016 21 Dec 2015 28 Jan 2016 16 Jun 2016 18 Feb 2016 13 Apr 2016 11 Nov 2015 22 Feb 2016 3 Feb 2016 30 Oct 2015 18 Jul 2016 1 Jul 2016 xxxx Advisers

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