G-III Apparel Group, a designer, manufacturer and marketer of branded apparel and accessories, is to acquire Donna Karan International, parent of the Donna Karan and DKNY brands and owned by LVMH, for USD650 million. The transaction is expected to close in late 2016 or early 2017.   Morris Goldfarb, chairman,

Elm Creek Partners has acquired Liberty Paper Products, a Phoenix, Arizona-based specialty converter and distributor of thermal paper. Liberty Paper Products provides customised solutions to its customers across a variety of end markets, including restaurants, point-of-sale, and gaming. Management believes that Liberty's best-in-class customer service and flexible manufacturing capabilities will

IP Cleaning (IPC), a portfolio company of environmental investment-focused private equity firm Ambienta, is to acquire Vaclensa Ltd, an independent distributor of professional cleaning machines in the UK. Vaclensa employs around 100 people including a network of engineers spread across the country providing high-value after-sales services to blue chip clients,

Teradata, a big data analytics company, has purchased Big Data Partnership, an EMEA-based services provider of big data solutions and training. Big Data Partnership has deep expertise in disruptive technologies, including Apache Hadoop, and helps its clients discover how to become more data driven and data savvy through data science and the

An affiliate of middle market private equity firm Charlesbank Capital Partner is to acquire Polyconcept from Investcorp. Equity for the transaction will be provided by Charlesbank and management, Partners Group and certain other investors.    Additional terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.   Polyconcept is a value-added supplier

Exiger, a regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance firm, has acquired The Poseidon Group, a Hong Kong and Singapore-based due diligence and business intelligence firm.  With the addition of Poseidon into its growing portfolio of specialised due diligence and business intelligence solutions for global and regional banks, private equity

Japan’s SoftBank Group has reached agreement with UK-based ARM Holdings on the terms of a recommended all cash acquisition of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of the Cambridge-based microchip designer. ARM products are used in most smartphones, including those from industry giants Apple and Samsung.  

Noerr has advised the Danish private equity investment company Axcel on several pan-European acquisitions of high tech suppliers to the meat-processing industry and the formation of a global industry market leader. Axcel is investing in the companies SFK LEBLANC, Attec, ITEC and Carometec via the Axcel IV fund.   The