Mid-market buyout firm Palamon Capital Partners has successfully refinanced a portfolio company with Royal Bank of Scotland, in a controversial deal that has allowed it to pay a dividend.
Palamon Capital Partners has recouped 1.5 times its original equity investment in UK pre-university training company Cambridge Education Group, using a £23m dividend recapitalisation provided by RBS. The bank is 83% owned by the UK taxpayer following a government bail out.