Lawson Products, a distributor of products and services to the MRO marketplace, has acquired FB Feeney Hardware in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The transaction closed on 9 May, 2016. FB Feeney Hardware has been serving the industrial market in Toronto and the surrounding area since 1952 and is known as a

Wasserstein & Co, on behalf of its private equity fund Wasserstein Partners III, has acquired Moss Inc (Moss), a provider of highly engineered, three-dimensional fabric structures and customised environmental branding solutions. Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed. Founded in 1975, and headquartered in Elk Grove, IL, Moss transforms

City Capital Ventures, a private investment partnership headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, has acquired a majority stake in Diedrich Roasters (Diedrich) of Ponderay, Idaho.  The Company will continue to operate independently under the leadership of current CEO Michael Paquin and his team. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

B Riley Financial, a provider of financial and business advisory services, has signed a definitive agreement and plan of merger to acquire United Online, a provider of consumer services and products over the Internet, for USD11.00 per share, or approximately USD170 million.  The consideration represents approximately USD48 million in cash

Australian investment manager, QIC has signed an agreement to acquire an 80 per cent interest in the North Australian Pastoral Company (NAP), one of Australia’s oldest and largest agricultural enterprises. NAP covers 5.8 million hectares across Queensland and the Northern Territory and approximately 178,000 head of cattle.   At the

Dunedin-backed CET, which supplies specialist outsourced services to the construction and insurance sectors, has acquired Doncaster based materials testing company, Construction Testing Solutions (CTS), in a transaction valued at GBP3 million.   This acquisition further cements CET’s position as a leading UKAS accredited testing and outsourcing powerhouse in the UK.

MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing group of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has gained all regulatory approvals for its acquisition of Capital Analytics, the private equity administration business of Neuberger Berman Group. The deal, which is now closed, is part of MUFG Investor Services’ strategy to become a global

Six Degrees Group (6DG) has acquired application hosting provider Insite Limited, a provider of Microsoft Dynamics AX hosting and managed services in the Cloud. Insite specialises in hosting and managing business-critical applications based on Microsoft technologies. Established in 1994, Insite owns and operates its own tier 3 aligned data centre

European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital is to acquire a majority stake in the aerospace division of Avingtrans Plc, a UK precision engineering components manufacturer for the commercial aerospace sector.   Sigma is being bought for an enterprise value of GBP65.0 million and its existing management, led by its founding

Weil, Gotshal & Manges (Weil) is advising Bain Capital and Advent International on the EUR1.1 billion acquisition by Mercury UK Holdco Limited, the current majority shareholder of Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane’s (ICBPI), of Setefi Services (Setefi Processing) and Intesa Sanpaolo Card (ISP Card) from Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo.