Kirkland & Ellis is advising Oakley Capital Private Equity III on the acquisition of Career Partner Group from its shareholder Apollo Education Group Inc. The current management team of Career Partner is investing alongside Oakley in the transaction. The transaction is funded by a unitranche debt facility from BlueBay and equity

Tour Partner Group, a newly-formed formed holding company for Hotels & More, Irish Welcome Tours and Authentic Vacations, is to acquire Trans Nordic Tours, the largest local inbound tour operator to the Nordic countries by revenue. Trans Nordic Tours, launched in 1995, is based in Denmark and successfully led by

Oakley Capital Private Equity III (Fund III) is to aquire Apollo Global Germany (Career Partner Group), from its current shareholder Apollo Education Group Inc. Fund III, together with a number of underlying Fund III investors, will hold a 79 per cent stake in the business. Fund III will be partnering

Private equity firm High Street Capital has acquired a controlling interest in Open Range Beef, a niche provider of beef processing services, focused on serving the Certified Organic, grass-fed, antibiotic-free, toll processing and other niche markets. Open Range Beef focuses on food safety, employee safety, quality processes, humane animal handling

Caseking, a European online-retailer and distributor of gaming and PC accessories backed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), has acquired Trigono, a B2B software and hardware distributor, from financial holding company Bratt International. The acquisition strengthens Caseking Group’s position in the Scandinavian market, while the Caseking product range will open up

Audax Private Equity has acquired Ecolab’s Equipment Care business from Ecolab Inc, a provider of commercial kitchen repair, maintenance services, and parts to the US commercial food service industry. Equipment Care services 40,000 locations across 25 states with 500 technicians and 400 subcontractors and distributes 25K SKUs of OEM and

Wynnchurch Capital has completed an investment in America II Group, an electronic component distributor, supplying a broad array of products for use in higher value-add applications across diversified end-markets including industrial controls and sensors, medical devices, data networks, internet-connected products and material handling/transportation equipment. The Company was founded in 1989

Bedell Cristin has advised Leonard Green & Partners (LGP), a US private equity investment firm, on its acquisition of intellectual property management and technology group, CPA Global.

 CPA Global was founded in Jersey in 1969 and has grown to become a major international organisation, servicing customers’ needs in 200 jurisdictions.

Funds managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) are to acquire a majority stake in SunSource Holdings, a distributor of hydraulic and pneumatic fluid power products in the US and Canada. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. SunSource serves a diverse customer base which includes more than 20,000

Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the middle market, has acquired Nekoosa, a manufacturer of specialty paper and film products used in the graphics and commercial print markets. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.   Headquartered in