Real estate investment trust The GEO Group is to acquire Community Education Centers (CEC), a private provider of rehabilitative services for offenders in re-entry and in-prison treatment facilities as well as management services for county, state and federal correctional and detention facilities. GEO will acquire CEC for USD360 million in

Iceoplex Operating, an affiliate of Blackstreet Capital Holdings (BCH), has acquired substantially all of the assets of the Iceoplex at Southpointe sports complex. The facility has one sheet of ice, one multi-purpose indoor sport court utilised for indoor soccer and other turf sports, a health club, outdoor volleyball courts and

Amethis Finance and Metier have teamed up to acquire a significant minority stake in East African packaged food business Kenafric Industries. The Kenafric Group was founded in 1987 by Velji Punja Shah and his four sons.   The group has grown to emerge as a major FMCG group in East

KKR is to acquire a stake of up to 40 per cent in Telxius, a critical telecom infrastructure owner and service provider in Europe and Americas. The deal implies an enterprise value of EUR3.678 billion and is subject to the customary closing conditions.   Telxius owns and operates a large

Summa Equity has acquired Linfre Education AB from the company’s founder and a handful of private investors. The founder and CEO Josef Lind will reinvest the majority of his proceeds, and the management team will also invest alongside Summa Equity.   Tommi Unkuri, partner at Summa Equity, says: “We are

One Equity Partners’ portfolio company, The WW Williams Company has completed the acquisition of Auto Safety House, one of the largest vehicle maintenance service and parts provider for trucks, pre-owned and new buses, and other vehicles in the Southwestern US. The company is also  the Thomas Built Bus distributor for

Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to Cloudreach on the sale of a majority share to Blackstone. Cloudreach is a renowned cloud-native global cloud enabler which has empowered some of the largest and best known enterprises in the world to realise the benefits of hyperscale public cloud. The

Mid Europa Partners, a private equity firm focused on Central and South Eastern Europe, has completed the acquisition of Romanian supermarket chain Profi Rom Food. Profi is a modern retail network with the widest geographical spread in Romania, having a strong presence in almost 250 cities, smaller towns and villages.