By Elliot Gulliver-Needham AIM-listed Alpha Financial Markets Consultancy has agreed to a takeover deal by private equity giant Bridgepoint. The specialist consulting firm, which employs over 900 companies globally, has agreed a price of around £626m, or 505 pence per share, it said in a stock exchange announcement today. Currently valued at £548m by the market, Alpha FMC’s stock price spiked by 24 per cent to its highest level in almost a year in the run-up to the announcement, from 385 pence to 479 pence. The offer is over 50 per cent higher than the firm’s share price of 335 pence on 30 Apr…