IT assurance company NCC Group has made a fresh acquisition in the US.

The listed Manchester company has bought Escrow Associates, a  software escrow company, for a maximum consideration of up to £5.9m ($9.5m) in cash. Atlanta-based Escrow Associates has 10...

Rickitt Mitchell had a good night at the EN Deals Awards Dinner in Manchester in March when deals that it had led won in 2 of the 3 deals awards categories.

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NCC Group's acquisition of iSEC Partners Inc., in San Francisco, led by...

FLYBE, Europe’s largest regional airline, has set an initial float price of 295p per share valuing the company at £215m.

The airline, the largest in terms of traffic movement at both Manchester and Birmingham airports, said conditional dealings were...

Rickitt Mitchell, the corporate finance house, is expanding after completing 13 deals in the last 12 months.

The eight-strong Manchester firm has also also promoted two members of its team, Ashley Haworth and Tim Ritchie to associate director after a 50% rise in...

The airline, the largest in terms of traffic at Manchester Airport, said it would raise £60m in the listing.

Exeter-based Flybe intends using around half of the net proceeds from the offer to provide it with capital to fund the expansion of its fleet. The other...

TEXTILES and linen supplier Vision Support Services has bought an Irish towel business which supplies some of the world's most famous hotels including Raffles in Singapore, The Burj Al Arab in Dubai, Scotland's Gleneagles and The Berkeley in London.

The deal...

Rickitt Mitchell is one of the UK’s leading corporate financial advisors, acting as lead advisor on a range of transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, MBOs, MBIs, refinancings and fund raisings. The firm currently has a 7-strong professional team, made up of 4...

Manchester-based IT security firm NCC Group has completed its fourth acquisition in under two years with a £14.4m swoop to expand its presence in the United States - and has secured further funding to continue its buying spree.

NCC has bought iSEC...

The world's giant drugs companies turn to it when they need help, and now many investors will get their first sight of a British software business when it makes its debut on the alternative investment market this week (Peter Stiff writes).

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Acal plc (LSE: ACL), a specialist provider of technology products and services across Europe and South Africa, today announces that it has completed the sale of its subsidiary, ATM Parts Company Limited ("ATM Parts"), to Cennox plc, a UK based ATM services and technology...

Online wedding and celebration supplies business Confetti has been bought out of administration in a deal that safeguards 34 jobs, administrators at RSM Tenon have confirmed. The Manchester-based company was placed into administration last month, days after being acquired by...

Building energy management business Adam Communication Systems International is looking to double turnover and take on an additional 20 staff after securing a £1.5m investment from Maven Capital Partners.

The Cheshire business, whose wireless technology is used...

Advantage Resourcing, one of largest technical and professional services companies in the world, announces today a key acquisition in the United Kingdom.

Advantage Technical Resourcing has completed the acquisition of Atlan Resource Solutions, headquartered in...

Manchester-based IT security firm NCC Group has bought Wilmslow-based competitor SDLC Solutions for up to £15m.

The firm is paying an initial £7.75m upfront, with two further cash payments totalling £7.25m being made if it hits performance targets...

NCC Group Plc (LSE: NCC), the Manchester-based information technology services provider, is acquiring a Cheshire company which carries out security testing for MasterCard and VISA.

It is paying £3m in cash for Meridian Services International Ltd, based in...

Brian Higgins, Partner at Rickitt Mitchell, featured in the December 2009 issue of Insider Magazine as part of a round table discussion with other professionals from the region to debate the benefits from, and issues with, merger transactions in the current...

The partners at Rickitt Mitchell are pleased to announce the promotion of Neil Mitchell to Associate Director effective 1st December 2009. Neil joined the firm in 2004 from PriceWaterhouseCoopers and has since worked on numerous private company disposals, MBOs/MBIs,...

Pointer Pet Products Limited is pleased to announce the purchase of the business and assets of Pointer Pet Foods Limited, from KPMG, acting administrators of the company.  The transaction is effective immediately.

Pointer Pet Products Limited is a new company...

Rickitt Mitchell was shortlisted for the title of 2009 Corporate Finance Team of the Year in the recent Insider Magazine Dealmaker Awards.

Stuart Moss, Partner at Rickitt Mitchell, said “Despite the doom and gloom in what has been a very difficult year for the...

Airangel, a Warrington-based company which provides internet access at hotels, has secured a £500,000 funding package from the Royal Bank of Scotland under the government-backed Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme (EFG).

The money will be used to support growth...

Manchester-based Vision Support Services Group (VSS) has acquired the business and assets of Birkenhead-based office furniture firm The Desk Centre Limited from administrators Ernst & Young.

It has now set up Desk Centre Ltd as a newly-incorporated subsidiary and...

The maker of a brand of soups endorsed by celebrity chef Marco Pierre White has been bought by Key Capital Partners, the Leeds-based private equity group, showing that dealmakers are still hungry to acquire food and drinks companies.

TSC Foods, the maker of chilled...

Shopfitter Styles & Wood today revealed a major refinancing package to raise cash through a new share deal as it announced a pre-tax loss of almost £1m.

The Altrincham based company will raise £12m through a new share offer and says it already has...

Acal announces that its subsidiary, Acal Supply Chain Limited ('Acal Supply Chain'), has today acquired the remaining 25 per cent. of the issued ordinary shares in SSE for a cash consideration of £1,000,000.

As announced on 12 January 2009, Acal Supply...

Entrepreneur Jennie Johnson has secured a £7.5m loan from Abbey’s new corporate lending team and appointed advisors in a bid to attract more funding to expand her Didsbury-based Kids Allowed nursery business.

Johnson, who co-founded Kids Allowed in 2005,...

NCC Group plc (LSE:NCC, "NCC Group" or "the Group"), the international independent provider of Escrow Solutions, Assurance Testing and Consultancy, has acquired Next Generation Security Software Ltd ("NGSS"), a security and testing company, for a maximum consideration...

Ingenious Media Active Capital (''IMAC'') has today completed an investment of £7 million in Review Centre Limited (''Review Centre'') a newco set up to acquire Resource Team Limited (''RTL''). RTL's main...

A management team from Nantwich-based chemical distribution firm Multisol have announced that they have completed a buy-out of the £78.5m turnover business for an undisclosed sum.

The company, which last year made a profit of £6m, was sold by the Banner...

NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, "NCC Group" or "the Group"), the international, independent provider of Escrow Solutions, Assurance Testing and Consultancy, has acquired Escrow Europe Holdings B.V. ("Escrow Europe"), a pan-European escrow solutions company, for a maximum...

Casper Limited ("Casper") today announces the acquisition of W K Thomas and Company Limited, W K Thomas ( Disposables) Limited and Marchant, Thomas and Murrell Limited (Together "W K Thomas").

W K Thomas are leading distributors of packaging, disposables and other...

Online holiday business On the Beach has secured private equity investment in a deal which is believed to value the Manchester and Cheshire based firm at around £40m.

ISIS Equity Partners has taken a significant stake in the company, resulting in a windfall for...

Manchester based IT security firm NCC Group has made its second swoop of the year with a £4m deal for a business which tests the computer networks of companies such as BAA, Orange, Flybe and SAGE. NCC has bought SecureTest, of Thame, Oxfordshire. The business was...

British Airways is expected to announce today the completion of the sale of a large part of BA Connect, its lossmaking UK regional operations, to Flybe. The deal could cost BA about £150m, including finanical guarantees.

In return BA is taking a 15 per cent...

The chief executive of Manchester-based It security business NCC Group today issued a warning over the growing threat from computer hackers, as he unveiled a big rise in profits and a major acquisition.

Rob Cotton said hackers and high-tech fraudsters pose an enormous...

A Yorkshire company which made hats for Winston Churchill and now has a £40m turnover business producing children's dressing-up costumes has undergone a £21m management buyout (MBO).

Historic hatmaker Christy Group, based in Barnsley, is the UK's...

Casper Limited ("Casper") today announces the aquisiition of King UK Limited ("King UK"), the leading distributor of non-food products to the licensed trade and catering sectors in the UK. The business was acquired from Autobar Group Limited ("Autobar") in a private...

Shares in Altrincham-based shopfitting firm Styles & Wood are expected to begin trading on the stock market next week in a move which will value the company at £96.7m. Styles & Wood confirmed its float plans as it forecast sales of £264m for 2006, up from...

A company set up 36 years ago has been sold to growth-hungry north west firm Speedy Hire for £13.5m.

Bill Parkinson, 67, established Lifting Gear Hire in Atherton and grew it into a £16.2m-turnover enterprise with 34 depots across the UK employing more...

A multi-million pound management buy-out has taken place at Britain's biggest privately owned toy and gift manufacturer, based in Fleetwood, Lancashire.

Brothers Alan and Graham Halsall have completed the sale of David Halsall International, whose headquarters...

NCC Group plc, the independent provider of IT assurance, security and consultancy services, has acquired its second US-based software escrow solutions business, Source Harbor Inc, for a maximum consideration of $1.5m in cash.

The business was established three years...

Beechfield Brands Limited is a leading supplier of unbranded headwear, bags and accessories to distributors of leisurewear throughout the UK and European markets. The company is based in Bury, Lancashire and also has an office in China.

The vendor and sole shareholder...

Manchester based IT group NCC has secured its first foothold in the world's biggest economy with a US acquistion.

NCC bought complementary escrow solutions business Recall Total Information Management, part of the Brambles Industries group, for a cash sum of...

Cheshire based RK Group Limited has been acquired by Quantica plc, the FTSE listed recruitment and training group, in a £13m deal.

RK Group was founded in 1993 by ex Michael Page board director Richard Robinson. The company consists of six specialist...

American electronics giant Solectron Corporation has bought a £30m-turnover Cheshire-based computer parts business. Solectron is believed to have paid about £15m for ServiceSource Europe, which employs 200 staff, and is based at Appleton, Warrington. It was...

There was a good mix of firms reflecting activity at the top end of the market, such as KPMG and PWC, who have both had busy years, and there was a strong vote for the Manchester office of a powerful global player, Rothschild.

But it was one of the hungriest...

Manchester IT consultancy NCC Group today raised £38m through a placing of shares with institutions on the Alternative Investment Market.

The Group will have a market capitalisation of over £55m when trading begins.

The company will use over...

NCC, the UK market leader in insuring companies against the collapse of their business software supplier, plans to float up to 75 per cent of its shares on Aim next month in a placing expected to value it at about £65m. NCC, whose revenues have grown at 20 per cent a...

The management at Styles & Wood, which project-manages retail store developments for blue chip companies, bought 3i's shareholding in the business, which joined the company when it backed an MBO in 2001.

The funding was provided by Aberdeen Murray Johnstone...

Rickitt Mitchell has been shortlisted for the Corporate Finance Boutique of the Year Award in the Real Deals Private Equity Awards 2004 to be held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 29 April 2004.

The chairman of CD Bramall, a car dealership, is driving off with a £76m windfall after his business was bought by a rival for £230m.

The takeover by Pendragon will make it the UK's largest car dealer, with 4pc of the market, and the biggest in the...

The six strong management team led by executive chairman Roy Eady has acquired a 22 per cent. stake in the business that sees 3i exit completely, and provides an exit for majority shareholder Brian Kennedy, who has reinvested a substantial sum to acquire a significant...

The chairman David Bernstein has secured the backing of the US investment bank Bear Stearns with a deal which in time could total £44m. The bank has initially brokered a £30m bond, based on City’s loyal fan base. “The deal is secured on the future...

The board of Quicks believes that the £40.16m deal, announced last Friday, is in the best interests of the company, which today announced a 6.6 per cent. increase in annual turnover to £589.6m.

Pre-exceptional profits for the year ended 31 December 2001...

Chepstow PLC, the acquisition vehicle of a consortium comprising directors Richard Fildes, Fergus Watson and Andrew Bird, together with Barry Owen, made a recommended cash offer for Barlows at 72 pence in cash per share.

Immediately preceding the offer, Barlows...

It was two months before shareholder restructuring at Altrincham based retail property services company Styles & Wood could finally go ahead, last October.

Venture capitalists 3i bought for an undisclosed sum the 38.3 per cent stake held by private...

This is what Insider said......The picks-and-shovels merchants of the internet revolution get my vote. The dot-com sector is having trouble with investor confidence and there will be many more business failures and forced consolidations as a result. But the internet is here...

The deal is being funded by a combination of equity backing from ECI Ventures and debt from BHF Bank, part of ING Barings. The company has earnings before interest and tax of £2.8m and a turnover of £25m. The chain has been built up by Paul Benjamin and his family...

Through no fault of its own, TeleCity was caught in the eye of a storm caused by spectacular falls in the global value of technology stocks. In late May as the company was finalising its offer, an almost unprecedented set of events caused the float to be pulled at literally...

Moreover, not all firms reporting deals always list the names of their professionals. Others, however, list everyone in their team but not the personnel involved on the other side. The result is patchy - and often more a reflection on each professional firm's marketing...

Rickitt Mitchell, founded 23 years ago by Peter Rickitt, father of former Coronation Street star Adam, was the only Manchester firm to be recognised in the prestigious awards.

Judges of the Acquisitions Monthly National Awards said the Clarence Street firm had...

Management at Staffordshire computer company Instem yesterday announced plans to take the business back into private hands.

Investors are being offered 210p for their shares - a price they have not achieved for more than ten years. At the end of last week, venture...