Novus Leisure

Having been listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2005 under the name Urbium, the company was taken private in a £115 million buyout.^{[citation needed]} Four years later, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland took control from Cognetas (now Motion Equity Partners)^[2] in a debt-for-equity deal, followed by LGV Capital and Hutton Collins' £100m purchase in 2012.^[3] Presently, the company is owned by HayFin Capital Management, who had provided the debt in 2012 and seized control in 2015.^[1] Novus purchased three Rocket Restaurants sites for an undisclosed sum in 2017.^[4]

HayFin put Novus up for sale in 2018,^[5] and over the next year Stonegate Pub Company acquired Be At One, Fever Bars and 21 London sites.^[6][7]

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