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In today’s deal headlines Laird Group plc has bought Bluetooth supplier Ezurio for £12.5 million and UK business Greystone Financial Services has been acquired by Focus Financial Partners LLC of the US

Done deals:

• SDL plc, a provider of global information management solutions, has acquired Idiom Technologies Inc for £11.1 million in a bid to enhance its technology offering

• UK building and civil engineering contractor Kier Group plc has disposed of its 50 per cent PFI investment in Hairmyres Hospital, which it sold to Innisfree M &G PPP Fund for £13.8 million

• AIM-listed IP support services company RWS has purchased document service centre Technische Uebersetzungen und Software-Lokalisierung GmbH (DSC) for £6.8 million

• Merill Lynch PE has bought Integrated Dental Holdings from rival private equity house LGV Capital for an undisclosed sum, reported to be around £300 million

• Irish builder Mick Whelan has expanded his business, Moritz Trading, with the acquisition of C&D Builders Providers for more than €20 million (£15 million)

• Laird Group plc, a London-headquartered global electronics, security systems and distribution group, has bought Bluetooth supplier Ezurio for some £12.5 million

• Lancashire-based industrial door parts producer North Valley Metal has been bought out by its management in a £1 million deal

• UK business Greystone Financial Services has joined Focus Financial Partners LLC, a partnership of independent financial advisers in the US that is looking to create the first global network of independent wealth management firms

• James Robinson, a manufacturer and supplier of speciality chemicals with sites in Huddersfield West Yorkshire, Germany and India, has been purchased by Essex-based rival Yule Catto for approximately $17.2 million (£8.8 million)

Deals in the pipeline:

• Faroe Petroleum, an oil and gas company working in the Atlantic Margin, the North Sea and Norway, has agreed to acquire a 14 per cent interest in Norwegian Licence PL289 from Gaz de France Norge
  
  
• Lloyd’s insurer Chaucer Holdings plc has agreed to purchase Quanta Capital Holdings’ 15 per cent shareholding in Pembroke JV for a consideration of £1

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