October 2012 | 2012
Graphite Capital has sold NES Global Talent, the international technical recruitment group, to funds advised by AEA Investors LP for £234 million. NES places highly skilled contract engineers and project managers with, multi-national clients, principally in the oil...
October 2012 | 2012
Graphite Capital, in conjunction with Activa Capital (France), ECM (Germany) and MCH (Spain), has launched the Private Equity Network, (PEN), a pan-European network of four leading mid-market private equity firms. The Private Equity Network brings together the strong...
August 2012 | 2012
Graphite Capital is backing the management buy-out of Explore Learning, the UK’s leading provider of after-school tuition for primary school children. Since opening its first centre in 2001, Explore has grown rapidly and now operates a network of 62 centres...
July 2012 | 2012
The Delaunay, a Grand Cafe with a mittel-European theme which opened in December 2011, has won Restaurant of the Year at the prestigious Tatler Restaurant Awards 2012. In April 2012, Graphite Capital invested £21 million into Rex Restaurants, a group which also...
June 2012 | 2012
Kurt Geiger, Graphite’s highly successful foray into the world of footwear, has won the British Venture Capital Association’s award for Exit Management Team of the Year. Graphite acquired Kurt Geiger in 2008 and sold the business for £215 million to The Jones Group...
