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Strategic buyers continue to seek out proprietary medical device businesses

Northern Digital Inc (NDI), a portfolio company of Audax Group (Audax),has been sold to strategic buyer Roper Industries, Inc. (Roper;NYSE:ROP). The transaction closed on June 3, 2011. Harris Williams & Co. acted as an advisor to NDI. The transaction was led by Turner Bredrup, Todd Morris, Cheairs Porter, Andy Dixon,

Monroe Capital provides USD23m to The O’Gara Group

Monroe Capital today announced the funding of a USD23 million unitranche facility to The O’Gara Group. Monroe Capital’s facility was used to refinance existing debt and provide ongoing working capital. The O’Gara Group, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, provides a diverse portfolio of security, safety and defense products and services to

Research In Motion buys Scoreloop AG

Research In Motion has acquired Scoreloop AG, a leading independent platform for mobile social gaming. "As part of RIM, Scoreloop will be in the unique position to integrate deeply at the operating system level and leverage their entire ecosystem across the board,“ says Olaf Jacobi, Partner at Target Partners. Roland

HarbourVest publishes offer prospectus for all bearer shares of Absolute Private Equity Ltd

HarbourVest Partners, LLC (HarbourVest) and HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited (HVPE) have published an offer prospectus in respect of the public tender offer by HarbourVest Acquisition GmbH (HarbourVest Acquisition) for all bearer shares of Absolute Private Equity Ltd (Absolute) currently in circulation.   Absolute is an investment company located in

Comment: Moncler sale fits ‘pattern’

Carlyle’s decision to sell Moncler in a secondary buyout is consistent with a pattern we have seen established in the Europe over the last 12-18 months, says Ed Griffiths, private equity partner at DLA Piper… The continued prevalence of buyouts or trade sales highlights the unease felt within the Private

Henning Gebhardt, head of European equities, DWS Investments

Comment: Investors continue to focus on Germany as the European growth engine

Henning Gebhardt (pictured), head of European equities at DWS Investments, looks at why investors are continuing to see Germany as the European growth engine… The German economy continues to boom. Just a few weeks ago leading German economic research houses raised their forecasts for the German GDP growth to 2.8%.

Intel Capital to lead USD13 million investment in Aldebaran Robotics

Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organisation, has led a USD13 million investment in Aldebaran Robotics, the world-leading European humanoid robotics company. The investment is Intel Capital’s first within the robotics industry and demonstrates its commitment to supporting innovative businesses and to advancing new classes of computing devices. Aldebaran Robotics currently

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks launch UK service for expanding businesses

A select group of innovative businesses in the UK planning for rapid expansion in world markets are being given access to a new funding package from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks. The banks’ Growth Finance programme is designed for companies with rapid sales growth and which are expecting to deliver profits

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Better Capital’s Calyx Software makes two strategic bolt-on acquisitions

Better Capital’s BECAP Fund has advanced GBP6m to allow one of its portfolio investments, Calyx Software Limited to make two strategic, bolt-on acquisitions. The first acquisition comprises certain of the assets and obligations of a division of Touchstone Group Plc (Touchstone). This division of Touchstone is a leading supplier of

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