Montagu, a leading European mid-market private equity investor, has announced the sale of VetXX, a leading developer, producer and marketer of companion animal veterinary products, to the UK's Dechra ... [more]

Buyout group Lyceum has hired NM Rothschild to advise on the sale of its Asquith Court chain of nurseries, it was reported. A minimum asking price of £100m was suggested for the chain of UK-based nurs... [more]

Legal & General Ventures is thought to have appointed the investment bank NM Rothschild to review strategic options for its Craegmoor residential care business. The review is understood to be in a ver... [more]

Private equity firm Bowmark Capital has reportedly put two school travel firms up for sale for over £50m. ... [more]

Priory Healthcare, the private hospitals chain best known for its rehabilitation clinics for celebrities, has appointed Morgan Stanley to conduct a strategic review of the business, which may involve ... [more]

Co-operative Group is to acquire 21 pharmacies from Alliance Boots, including branches in County Durham, Northumberland, Devon, Somerset and East Anglia, taking its total chain to 454.... [more]

Skyepharma, the UK-listed drug discovery company, announced today that it is to sell its injectables business to Blue Acquisition Corp of the US for up to $82m (£42.2m).... [more]

US pharmaceutical company Tripos Inc. has agreed to sell its UK-based Discovery Reasearch division to Provid Pharmaceuticals Inc., a drug discovery company based in New Jersey. ... [more]

3i group has appointed UBS to find potential buyers for its Care Principles business. The private equity firm led a £90m management buy-out of Care Principles in 2005, and the business could now fetch... [more]

Bridgepoint, the UK private equity firm, has put its Swedish care homes business up for sale just one year after buying the company. Bridgepoint paid around €245m for Attendo in 2005, and analysts pre... [more]

Thomson, the global electronic publisher and data provider, has put its education division, Thomson Learning, up for sale in a move to realign its operations.... [more]

Following its likely acquisition by private equity firms Apax Partners and Nordic Capital, Capio, the Swedish healthcare group, is expected to sell its UK division, Capio UK, to avoid regulatory conce... [more]

Daily Mail & General Trust has sold its Study Group International language training business to CHAMP Private Equity and Petersen Investments for £75m. Study Group provides university pathway and degr... [more]

Study Group, the language tuition division of Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT), is up for sale with a value of £80m. The group operates tuition facilities across the UK, North America and Australasia... [more]

Acal, the UK-listed electronics group, has stated that it is open to offers for Vertec, its UK-based medical instruments business. The company has recently reached agreement for the sale of its refrid... [more]

Medisys announced the conditional disposal of the whole of its operating businesses comprising primarily its Blood Glucose Monitoring business for a consideration of $42.8m (approximately £24.2m) in c... [more]

Granada Learning, the educational publishing business owned by ITV has been sold to private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson. The deal will consist of an up-front payment of £35m, with a further £... [more]

Duke Street Capital has sold Paragon Healthcare to private equity firm Hg Capital for £322m. Paragon has over 250 care homes across the UK with approximately 1,300 residents. In a company press releas... [more]