Mbo/mbi News - written by Caroline Clayfield

A management buyout of Confluence Management, one of the UK's most successful construction management consultancies will give it the funds and resources to relocate and expand its West Midlands b [more]

NES Group, the Cheshire-based recruitment company, might be put up for sale for an estimated £150m by its private equity owners Graphite Capital, who are understood to be examining strategic opt [more]

A Wiltshire database management and marketing company has undergone a management buy-out that has also seen a £6.5 million investment made by a private equity firm in return for a significant minority s [more]

Kent-based painting and commercial fit-out contractor S Lucas has announced an internal management buy-out. [more]

Asbestos removal firm Insul-eight has been bought in a management buy-out deal for an undisclosed amount. [more]

Outdoor clothing retailer Snow+Rock Sports has been bought in a management buyout deal, backed by JGV Capital. [more]

Scottish marketing agency Avian has been purchased in a management buyout after 18 months of planning for the move. [more]

Langholm Capital, the private equity owner of Tyrells Potato Chips and Dorset Cereals, has backed a management buy-out of Bart Spices for an undisclosed amount. [more]

New research shows that the number of private equity deals in the UK hit a 25-year low in 2009, mainly because the credit crisis cut off cheap debt supplies and dissuaded business owners from selling. According to the Centre for Management Buy-out Research at Nottingham University, last year saw 117 private equity deals take place - fewer than half of 2008's 243 d [more]