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LDC has exited its investment in Volvox Group, a leading supplier of auto electrical products and industrial consumables – through a sale to Elysian Capital. Volvox, which is headquartered in Leeds, designs, sources and distributes a wide range of innovative products for the private and commercial vehicle markets, including lighting, camera systems, car accessories, air [...]

Mid-market private equity firm LDC has funded the acquisition of US based MetricTest for portfolio company Microlease, the international provider of rental and asset management services to the test equipment market. LDC originally backed the £30m management buyout of Microlease in 2006, investing a further £8.3m in 2009 to provide further capital to support a [...]

LDC, the leading UK regional mid-market private equity house, has confirmed that it has invested £15million in a new fund being raised by Scottish Equity Partners (SEP). SEP, which specialises in growth equity and venture capital investments in technology companies across the UK, announced recently that it was raising a new fund and that it [...]

EDM has merged with Sala International to create one of the UK’s largest providers of outsourced information management services. The business, which will operate as EDM Group, will provide one of the industry’s most comprehensive and advanced offerings, combining market-leading services in digital mailroom, print room, document digitisation, document archiving, online document hosting and SaaS [...]

LDC, the leading mid-market private equity house, has exited its investment in claims management provider Davies Group through a management-led secondary buyout backed by Electra Partners. The business was sold for a price of £60m. Davies Group is one of the UK’s leading providers of claims management solutions to the general insurance industry, managing over [...]

In October 2011 LDC acquired the UK’s leading online learning provider learndirect in a transaction valued in the order of £40 million.  LDC bought learndirect by acquiring its parent Ufi Limited from the Ufi Charitable Trust (UCT). UCT, a registered charity, was set up in 1998 to use new technology to transform the delivery of [...]