Maranon Capital has provided unitranche financing to support the acquisition of a majority interest in Wedgewood Pharmacy by New Harbor Capital. Wedgewood, headquartered in Swedesboro, New Jersey, is an industry leading provider of compounded medications to pet owners through more than 36,000 veterinarian customer relationships across the United States.  The

Antares Capital announced is serving as administrative agent and joint lead arranger on a USD136 million senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Meadows Behavioural Healthcare (The Meadows) by Kohlberg & Company (Kohlberg). Upon the acquisition of The Meadows, Kohlberg announced the formation of Alita Care (Alita), which

Safanad, a global principal investment firm, is pleased to announce that an affiliate has acquired a controlling interest in Rimstock. Rimstock is a manufacturer of cast and forged aluminum automotive wheels in the United Kingdom for the automotive aftermarket and original equipment manufacturers. Rimstock, which recently celebrated its 30th year

Private equity firm Graphite Capital has acquired New World Trading Company (NWTC), a pub and restaurant business headquartered in Knutsford, Cheshire, from private equity firm LDC in a GBP50 million transaction. LDC originally invested GBP2.7m for a minority stake in NWTC in 2013 through the Hill Capital Food & Beverage

Ardian portfolio company Italmatch Chemicals, a global specialty chemicals group, has acquired 100 per cent from US private equity firm One Rock Capital Partners. The acquisition sees Italmatch Group consolidate its presence in the American market, with an important manufacturing site which will continue to produce Compass’ Mayoquest brand of

Wasserstein Partners has acquired Northstar Travel Group, a provider of business-to-business information, content, events, data, research, custom content and software dedicated to the global travel and meeting industries, from the Wicks Group of Companies.  Investing alongside Wasserstein Partners IV were its co-investors, Alberta Teachers’ Retirement Fund Board, John Hancock, and

Tikehau IM and Ares announced have arranged a major unitranche financing to support Apax Partners in the acquisition of Marlink, Airbus Group’s Commercial Satellite Communication business.  Marlink's maritime and land commercial satcom business is present in 14 countries across Europe, Asia, Middle-East and Americas, and has a distribution network of

Ogier, working with Burness Paull, has advised Brown-Forman Corporation on matters of Jersey law in respect of its GBP281 million acquisition of the GlenDronach, BenRiach and Glenglassaugh Single Malt Scotch Whisky brands.  Brown-Forman Corporation is one of the largest American based manufacturers of wines and spirits and this acquisition enhances

Funds that are managed by JD Capital have completed the acquisition of a controlling interest in Modern Metal Precision Die Casting (Modern Metal) from the Fung family and EQT Greater China II. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Modern Metal is the market leader in high-pressure aluminium

Aurelius has acquired Calumet International Ltd, a holding company comprising both pan-European multi-channel photography retailer Calumet Photographic (Calumet) and professional lighting producer Bowens Lighting (Bowens).  The company was bought from Calumet Holdings for an undisclosed sum.   Calumet Photographic is a multi-channel retailer of branded and own-label photography equipment and