Forbion Capital Partners’ portfolio company, Dezima Pharma, a biotechnology company developing innovative drugs to treat dyslipidemic patients suffering from cardiovascular disease (CVD), is to be acquired by Amgen, Inc. Amgen has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of Dezima for up to USD1.55 billion from Forbion and other current shareholders,

CR Holding (CR), the holding company of CR Investment Management, and K&K Group, have acquired the Airport Club in Frankfurt from Deutsche Bank for an undisclosed sum. The Airport Club Frankfurt is a well-known premium business club located at the international hub of Frankfurt airport. The club, formerly owned by

The private debt team of Tikehau IM acted as sole arranger and provider of financing for the proprietary primary LBO of the Belgium company, Pennel & Flipo Sprl by IDI and Cabestan Capital.  Tikehau IM arranged and financed the tailored unitranche facility for this acquisition.   Pennel & Flipo Sprl

Private equity funds managed by Blackstone is to acquire the majority of Serco Group’s private sector Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) operations, the main element of which is the former Intelenet business, for a consideration of GBP250 million. The enterprise value of this deal represents the largest acquisition by Blackstone in

BHR has closed on its acquisition, alongside its joint venture partner AVIC Auto, of Henniges Automotive, a specialist designer and manufacturer of sealing and anti-vibration solutions for high-end automobiles.  The transaction, valued at around USD600 million, is structured as a joint acquisition by BHR (49 per cent) and AVIC Auto (51

MSCI, a provider of research-based indexes and analytics, is to acquire all of the assets of Insignis, Inc, a data collection and aggregation service for the financial industry. Insignis provides daily automated collection, aggregation and management of financial data, including data on positions, transactions and complex instruments such as exchange-traded

TVV Capital, an operationally-focused private equity firm, has acquired Pensacola-based Ian-Conrad Bergan (ICB), a provider of engineered sensors, electronics and software for monitoring and gauging marine storage tanks. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.   The acquisition of ICB is the sixth investment for TVV Capital’s latest fund,

SS&C Technologies Holdings has acquired Primatics Financial for approximately USD122 million on a cash and debt free basis from The Carlyle Group. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2015. Primatics has 384 employees, 2014 annual revenues of USD51 million and adjusted EBITDA of USD12 million.

HIG Capital’s (HIG) affiliate has reached an agreement with the shareholders of Finangeste, a Portuguese asset manager, to acquire two real estate-based portfolios.  The portfolios are comprised of 77 Real Estate assets and 114 secured loans with a face value of over EUR110 million.   The transaction represents HIG’s 21st

Cloud Equity Group, an investment management company focused on opportunistic acquisitions of established web service providers, has acquired Virpus, a Xen virtual private server and bare metal cloud hosting provider. Virpus is currently one of America's largest budget-friendly Xen VPS hosting providers offering both Pure SSD and SSD-Cache services out