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Apax Apax Partners is planning to merge its investment banking division with Gold-Zack Group of Germany, and the business will be renamed Altium Capital. 20-Jun-2000 Apax Partners has bought a 49% stake in Prodrive, the motor racing group that runs the Subaru rally team. 22-Nov-1999 Apax Partners is planning to sell a 25% stake in its corporate finance and securities operation to Gold-Zack of Germany for £35m, which will involve merging Apax's offices in London and Manchester into a new company. 14-Oct-1999 Invensys is selling its paper technology division to Apax for £491m, as part of a strategy to focus on automation and controls. 14-Oct-1999 Thomson Directories Group, the publisher of local directories, has been acquired by Apax Partners from 3i and Advent International for £220m. 31-Jul-1999 Electra Investment Trust has sold the publishing division of the Stationery Office to Meadowpoint, a vehicle created by Apax Partners, for £82m. 15-Jul-1999 Thomson Directories Group, the publisher of local directories, is set to be acquired by private equity group Apax Partners from 3i and Advent International for £250m. 03-Jul-1999 Invensys has shortlisted four private equity companies interested in acquiring its paper technology business for about £600m, and they are Doughty Hanson, CVC Capital Partners, Apax Partners and Bain Capital Partners. 01-Jul-1999 Apax Partners is paying £8m for a stake in Microscience, the vaccine development company spun out of London's Imperial College. 09-Jun-1999 McDonald's has acquired Aroma, the chain of 23 London coffee bars, from Apax Partners for more than £10m, and hundreds of new Aroma outlets are being planned. 26-Mar-1999 Apax Partners is backing a new Irish company called Enba that is planning to launch an internet-based bank and brokerage service in the UK. 15-Mar-1999 Integrated Silicon Systems has secured £3m of funding from Apax Partners, which will enable it to expand its Belfast semiconductor business and create more than 30 jobs. 09-Mar-1999 Pearson has sold its Future Publishing consumer magazines business to a management team backed by Apax Partners for £142m. 25-Apr-1998 Pearson is close to selling its Future Publishing magazines business for up to £150m to a management team backed by Apax Partners. 06-Apr-1998 Apax Partners is planning to acquire Whitecross Group, the dentistry business, for £6.25m in order to set up a nationwide chain of dentists, although another potential bidder has emerged. 02-Apr-1998 US Industries has acquired Spear & Jackson, the tools manufacturer, from Apax Partners for over £57m. 05-Dec-1997 Unilever has sold Nordsee, the German and Austrian restaurants and fish wholesale business, to the Apax Partners venture capital fund for undisclosed terms, in order to focus on businesses that can be developed worldwide. 10-Jun-1997 Signet has rejected an offer from Apax for its 600-store jewellery business, saying that the deal would not have provided sufficient value for shareholders. 20-Sep-1996 Apax Partners, the venture capitalist, is said to be about to buy Signet's two jewellery chains - Ernest Jones and H Samuel - for £280m. 23-Jul-1996 Apax, the venture capitalist, is thought to be the only remaining bidder for Signet's UK jewellery shops, expected to be sold for £280m. 31-May-1996 More from the Financial Services sector Related pages: AMP Britannic Assurance CGNU PricewaterhouseCoopers Reuters The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. Click here for further details Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008