Clearwater International has advised the shareholders of Buchbinder on the sale of the company to Europcar Group.   Founded over 60 years ago, Buchbinder is a well-established company in Germany, with an extensive network of 152 stations of which 18 airport stations and an average fleet in excess of 20,000

Conquest Asset Management has reached a final agreement with SolairDirect, a subsidiary of Engie, to acquire a portfolio of six solar photovoltaic parks in France.   The real assets portfolio, located in the South of France, represents a total of 35MW power capacity.   The assets are supported by up

Maples and Calder has assisted aircraft leasing company Avolon Holdings in connection with its USD10 billion acquisition of the aircraft leasing business of CIT Group.   The acquisition has doubled the scale of Avolon’s business to create the third largest aircraft leasing platform in the world, with a combined fleet

TPG Capital, the global private equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG, is backing RCN Telecom Services’ acquisition of Wave Broadband for USD2.365 billion.   Currently owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners, Wave management and GI Partners, Wave is a regional broadband fibre company offering a full suite of high-speed

YFM Equity Partners, a private equity fund manager, has backed the MBO of TEV Limited, a UK designer and manufacturer of cooling, heating and refrigeration equipment.    TEV marks the third investment from the YFMEP 2016 Fund which closed at the end of last month.    TEV operates through two

High Road Capital Partners has completed the acquisition of Storage Battery Systems from Supply Chain Equity Partners, marking the seventh platform acquisition for High Road Capital Partners Fund II. Founded in 1915 and based in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Storage Battery Systems (SBS) is a leading assembler and value-added distributor of

Parquest Capital has held the first and final closing of its second lower mid-market private equity fund, Parquest Capital 2, with total commitments of EUR310 million.  Parquest Capital 2 received significant interest from both existing and new investors, with demand surpassing the fund’s target cover of EUR250 million and original

UBS Asset Management’s UBS International Infrastructure Fund II (the Fund) has signed an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the equity interest in Autovía del Camino, a 72.4 kilometre concession road located in Northern Spain.  The full equity interest is being acquired from RREEF Pan-European Infrastructure Fund LP, an

Deal sizes are returning to their pre-2008 levels owing to the “dry powder” accumulated by private equity firms, according to Joseph Cohen, a panellist at the 2017 Guernsey Funds Forum in London.   Cohen says this is resulting in a greater number of club deals in the buyout arena as

Nautic Partners is to acquire, in partnership with the existing management team, Endries International and certain Endries related affiliates, from Ferguson Enterprises and its affiliates.   The transaction is expected to close within the next 45 days.   Endries is a distributor of fasteners and Class-C parts serving industrial Original