THE Deal of the Month for May demonstrated both the industriousness of local advisers and the appetite for private equity firms to back well run local businesses.

Wednesbury’s Purity Soft Drinks - founded more than 100 years ago - was acquired by Langholm Capital, the consumer sector mid-market private equity firm, as part of a management buy-in transaction which sees Garry Nield appointed at the new CEO. The sum involved was undisclosed.

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