An affiliate of private equity firm Gemspring Capital has acquired the assets of Therma Corporation, a full-service design-build specialty mechanical contractor that focuses on complex HVAC, high purity process piping and process controls for cleanrooms, laboratories and high-tech manufacturing facilities. Therma was founded in 1967 by Joe Parisi, the CEO,

MidOcean Partners, a middle market private equity firm focused on consumer and business services, has acquired a significant controlling interest in Affinity Dental Management Holdings in partnership with Affinity’s management and certain founders of affiliated practices. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.   Affinity is a dental

Callcredit Information Group, backed by private equity firm, GTCR, has acquired the Spanish Confirma group of companies, comprising Confirma Sistemas and Soluciones Confirma, which specialise in fraud prevention and anti-money laundering (AML) software solutions. The strategic acquisition, sees Callcredit take a majority shareholding in the Madrid-headquartered business which is a

Permira Debt Managers’s (PDM) direct lending funds Permira Credit Solutions II (PCS2) and Permira Credit Solutions III (PCS3) are acting as sole senior secured lenders to finance the acquisition of Dunlop Aircraft Tyres, a UK headquartered aircraft tire company, by Liberty Hall Capital Partners. The acquisition is supported by long

Private equity investment firm Sverica Capital Management, along with Ross Beattie and Gerry Lawless, has acquired iWave Information Systems (iWave) from Jamie Hill of Charlottetown PEI. This acquisition marks Sverica’s third investment made from its fourth fund. iWave is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that offers fundraising intelligence

Pamplona Capital Management is to acquire Perexel International Corporation for USD88.10 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately USD5.0 billion, including Parexel’s net debt. The purchase price represents a 27.9 per cent premium to Parexel’s unaffected closing stock price on 5 May, 2017, the last trading day

CVC Capital Partners Fund VI has agreed to acquire Etraveli, the global flight-centric online travel agency (OTA), from ProSiebenSat.1.  The agreement is subject to approval by the relevant authorities. Etraveli, which is based in Uppsala, Sweden,  is a global e-commerce platform for flight tickets (eg Gotogate, Supersaver/Supersavertravel, Seat24, Flygresor), combining

Cairngorm Capital Partners’s (Cairngorm Capital) portfolio company Stevenswood Trade Centres Limited (Stevenswood) has acquired Sameday Holdings Limited (Sameday). This transaction, which is highly geographically complementary, accelerates Stevenswood’s strategy to develop a national network of trade counters. The new combined group will continue to be headquarted in Livingston and will have