HBOS' integrated finance team has completed its second investment in two days, buying Bridgepoint's stake in Sondex, a monitoring equipment company, for £33m (€52m) just a day after it spent £4m to fund Lionheart's acquisition of 17 pubs from Regent Inns.
The bank's integrated finance team provided debt and equity to finance the Sondex acquisition. The deal provided an exit for Bridgepoint, the UK and European buy-out firm, which had backed the management buy-out of Sondex in 1998.