Sun European Partners, an American private equity firm, agreed to acquire K3 Capital Group, a multi-disciplinary and complementary group of professional services businesses advising SMEs, for £272m. "Since IPO in 2017, management has continued to execute its strategy of building a multidisciplinary and complementary group, providing specialist advisory services to SMEs across three core divisions, business sales, tax and restructuring. K3 is now a diversified group with a resilient, high margin and cash generative business model and a data-driven marketing platform at its core, driving strong levels of organic growth," Ian Mattioli, K3 Non-Executive Chairman.