Services

3rd April 2008

Work-class ROV manufacturer SMD are acquired by private equity group Inflexion.

31st March 2008

International offshore crane services major EnergyCranes acquired by Close Brothers private equity for £142 million.

14th November 2007

Eurasia Drilling, valued at $3.5 billion list on the London Stock Exchange

7th November 2007

AGT Energy acquire Vienco’s 50% stake in Aberdeen-based Oilflow Solutions

15th October 2007

Hydrasun completed £75.5 million management buyout

29th June 2007

Ferd Private Equity acquired Norwegian oilfield services player Aibel for €670 million.

17th May 2007

£10 million acquisition of Corpro by SCF Partners

12th April 2007

£319 million IPO, Douglas-Westwood provided comercial due-diligence services to Wellstream.

22nd February 2007

Integra completed $768 million listing on the London Stock Exchange

5th February 2007

£130 million debt facility to finance the construction of two specialist vessels for TS Marine

5th February 2007

ROV manfacturer Perry Slingsby Systems capital acquired by Triton Group Holdings, affiliate of SCF Partners

24th January 2007

£50m debt facility provided by Merrill Lynch for Sovereign Oilfield Group's acquisition of Forfab Limited

18th January 2007

Douglas-Westwood provided comercial due-diligence services to RBS. RBS provided Acquisition, Growth and Working Capital Facilities to the company

21st September 2006

£29m refinancing deal for Aberdeen-based Energy Cranes International

13th September 2006

£15 million management buyout of Scottish engineering firm Motherwell Bridge

11th September 2006

Fugro N.V. acquisition of Rovtech, forming Fugro-Rovtech for £34.5 million

14th June 2006

Expro International Group completes £366million acquisition of Houston-based well-testing and flow-management specialist Power Well Services (PWS)

1st May 2006

BoS-financed MBO of KBR Production Services in a deal

expected to result in a pre-tax gain to Halliburton of $100

million

24th April 2006

Abbot £535m finance facility to fund acquisition of Songa

23rd Feb 2006

Epcon Offshore AS acquired by M-I SWACO

13th Feb 2006

Arcapita completes acquisition of Roxar

8th Feb 2006

Serimer Holdings acquisition of the UMAX group

30th Jan 2006

Inflexion Private Equity Backs £22m MBO of Viking Moorings