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Done deals:

• Dytecna has acquired GEL Engineering, in order to expand its defence systems division

• PowerKut has acquired AJ Mare Instruments of Birmingham for undisclosed terms, in order to gain a new depot in Perry Barr for its component manufacture and verification business

• Watson Burton has merged with rival law firm Trevor Robinson & Co

• ECI Partners, a mid-market private equity firm, has taken majority control of online media company i-level Group

• Coal supplier Coal4Energy has acquired 85.2 per cent in smokeless fuel company Maxibrite, for £4.7 million

• Software and computer services company Axon plc has acquired oil & gas consultancy EnterSys Group, in a bid to increase its presence in North America

• Venture capital investor Yorkshire and Humber Equity Fund has invested £250,000 in GO-SIM, a supplier of pre-pay mobile phone sim cards

• Hampson Industries plc, an aerospace and precision engineering group, has agreed to acquire Odyssey Industries and Global Tooling Systems of the US for up to $25 million (£12.6 million)

Deals in the pipeline:

• North Midland Construction plc has agreed to purchase the rest of North Midland Building for £1.7 million in cash, taking its ownership from 85 per cent to 100 per cent

• Elementis is to acquire Deuchem, the Taiwan-based supplier of additives and resins, for £40 million

• Imagine Communications Group, a portfolio company of European venture capital firm DFJ Esprit, has agreed to buy Internet service provider Irish Broadband

• KMC, a recruitment firm with offices in Cardiff and London, is to go into administration through Grant Thornton

• Sound Control has gone into administration through Deloitte, with the closure of ten of its 26 musical instrument stores

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