Funds managed by Cornerstone Partners and Oaktree Capital Management are to acquire IT Kontrakt, a vendor of IT services outsourcing in Poland, from Work Service (WS Group). The preliminary share purchase agreement was concluded on 31 March 2017.   The transaction requires approvals from relevant third parties, including the consent

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and funds affiliated with Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) have signed an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Nord Anglia Education. Funds affiliated with BPEA are the majority shareholders of Nord Anglia and BPEA controls 67 per cent of Nord Anglia's issued and

International law firm Ropes & Gray has advised TPG Capital on the acquisition by one of its portfolio companies, Beaver-Visitec International, of Malosa Medical, a manufacturer and supplier of single-use surgical instruments, primarily for use in the field of ophthalmology, based in the UK and China. With a portfolio of

Indigo Holdings, a Middle East-focused investment company that provides investors with exposure to early stage businesses, has invested approximately GBP200,000 in FMCG, a recently established online retail delivery business of Iranian convenience store chain Yaran Daryan. Indigo has acquired a 15 per cent equity stake in FMCG at a post-money

Hamburg-based private equity group CEE has acquired eight wind turbines in the Vormark wind farm near to the municipality Gross Pankow (Prignitz) in Brandenburg. The seller is a consortium consisting of the Danish company European Energy A/S and the Berlin-based Green Wind Energy.   The wind farm consists of eight

Maven Capital Partners has completed the GBP6 million management buy-out of ProspectSoft to support the roll-out of the new cloud-based SaaS software – Prospect365. ProspectSoft provides customer relationship management (CRM) and e-commerce software for the business-to-business (B2B) market.   Its technology can be fully integrated with clients’ existing accounting and

Align Capital Partners’ platform company Alliance Source Testing (AST) has acquired the stack testing operations of Golden Specialty, a provider of source emission (or stack) testing services to industrial facilities in the western US. Partnering with AST will allow the combined company to deepen customer relationships through greater proximity to

Law firm Howard Kennedy has advised Lynx Equity on its acquisition of specialist label printer Label Express.  The acquisition completed on 12 April and is Lynx Equity’s second UK investment.    Lynx Equity is a Canadian-based private equity firm with a diverse portfolio of companies across North America. It invests in

Sfoglia Torino has acquired 100 per cent of the capital of Idea Quick, an Italian frozen puff pastry producer, with growth capital provided by Unigrains. The acquisition follows an expansion process launched in February 2017, in which Enzo Perrino, the CEO of Sfoglia Torino, acquired Righi Srl in view of

AnaCap Financial Partners, a European financial services private equity firm, has acquired French business intelligence firm Ellisphere from Natixis. Ellisphere provides a range of business and marketing information services, which allow its clients to develop their portfolio of customers, manage risk and monitor client exposure.   AnaCap says there is