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Palatine-backed Verdant Leisure acquires ninth leisure park

Verdant Leisure has acquired ts ninth leisure park. Queensberry Bay Holiday Park & Spa, on the Dumfries and Galloway coastline in south west Scotland is the fifth holiday park purchase in the last 28 months for the bespoke leisure park operator. The purchase brings Verdant Leisure’s portfolio to nine parks

OEP partners with Orion Business Innovation

Middle market private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) has entered into an agreement to acquire Orion Business Innovation (Orion), a fast-growing global digital transformation firm.  Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Edison, NJ and New York, Orion provides digital transformation and automation services

LDC-backed babble doubles revenue and customer base with acquisition of Birmingham-based Arden Group

London-based babble cloud holdings limited, a UK provider of cloud-based communications technology, is strengthening its portfolio and doubling its industry footprint by acquiring Birmingham-based Arden Group for an undisclosed sum.  The deal will add strength in mobile and IT managed services to babble’s existing market-leadership in Unified Communication (UCaaS) and cloud-based

Equistone to acquire Courir from Go Sport in EUR283m deal

Mid-market private equity investor Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) has submitted a binding offer for the acquisition of the whole business of Courir.  The equity value of this offer is EUR283 million.  Equistone has now entered today into exclusive negotiations with Groupe Go Sport.   The completion of the deal, which

Shopblocks secures GBP300k investment from angel network

Dow Schofield Watts Angels – the Northern angel network – has completed its second deal, with a GBP300,000 investment in Miribase Limited, the company behind the Shopblocks e-commerce platform. Over 25 angel investors took part in the funding round, which will be used to accelerate Shopblocks’ revenues by investment in

Riverside Company completes Applied Logic add-on

Private equity firm The Riverside Company has added Applied Logic to its Censis Technologies platform. Headquartered in St Louis, Applied Logic provides software and third-party hardware used in the sterile processing department (SPD) of hospitals and medical facilities. The company’s products assist with SPD workflows, tracking surgical inventory and alerting

CenterOak’s Aakash Chemicals makes acquisition

Dallas-based private equity firm CenterOak Partners’ portfolio company Aakash Chemicals & Dye-Stuffs has acquired Sandream Impact, a supplier of colourants and other specialty chemicals to the cosmetic, personal care, and nutritional markets. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  Sandream Impact serves a broad base of customers across the United

Inflexion supports Huws Gray’s acquisition of Ridgeons

Inflexion Private Equity’s portfolio company Huws Gray, an independent builders’ merchants, has acquired Ridgeons, an independently owned timber and builders’ merchants trading from over 40 mixed branches in East Anglia. This follows a minority investment by Inflexion Partnership Capital I in Huws Gray in April 2018.   The transformational acquisition

SK Capital acquires SI Group

SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm focussed on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, has completed the acquisition of SI Group, a global developer and manufacturer of performance additives and intermediates.    The transaction includes the combination of SI Group with Addivant, an SK Capital portfolio company since

Auxo Investment Partners acquires niche manufacturer Prestige Stamping

Private equity firm Auxo Investment Partners has partnered with the Rink family to acquire Prestige Stamping, a Michigan-based high-speed niche manufacturer of custom engineered stampings for the fastener industry. The deal, terms of which have not been disclosed, marks Auxo’s fifth acquisition in 13 months and follows the September closing

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