Lyceum Capital-backed Carewatch, the UK’s largest national domiciliary care provider, has strengthened its geographical reach after completing the acquisitions of three franchise businesses: Graham Home Care, Carewatch North and East Riding of Yorkshire and Carewatch Greenwich. The deals are the first add-on acquisitions made by Carewatch during 2011 and take

Verto Partners, LLC, a national performance improvement, restructuring, and corporate turnaround firm, has acquired Wavelength Strategies, LLC, a New York-based transformation services firm focused on life sciences, healthcare, and technology. With the move, Wavelength managing principals Duncan Steels and Greg Calaman join Verto as Managing Directors and will lead the

Patriarch Partners, a private equity firm and holding company that currently manages 74 companies with annual revenues of more than USD8 billion, has completed the acquisition of the Gorham (New Hampshire) paper mill from FP Acquisitions LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Counsel RB Capital, LLC. Patriarch intends to begin

Northern Digital Inc is to be acquired by strategic buyer Roper Industries, Inc (Roper, NYSE:ROP), with the transaction expected to close in the second quarter of 2011. Harris Williams & Co acted as an advisor to the company. The transaction is being led by Turner Bredrup, Todd Morris, Cheairs Porter,

Hogan Lovells has advised Stephen and Peter Bond and the Management Team on the sale of Bond Aviation Group to Inaer for EUR300 million. The deal closed on Thursday 28 April, 2011. In addition, Hogan Lovells acted on the rollover by the Bonds of some of their monies into the enlarged

Appalachian Midstream Partners (AMP), a natural gas gathering and transportation services company operating in the Marcellus Shale, has entered into an agreement has secured an equity commitment of up to USD176m from private equity firm Avista Capital Partners. Appalachian will use this equity commitment to develop and expand AMP’s initial

Palm Beach Capital has made an investment in Arriva Medical. This transaction is the second equity investment by Palm Beach Capital from Palm Beach Capital Fund III, L.P. Financial terms have not not been disclosed. Arriva Medical, based in Coral Springs, Florida, was formed in April 2009 by industry veterans

Bridgepoint and Eurazeo are to aquire Fonica with the ambition of making the company the leading residential real estate services company. Foncia has a network of more than 600 branches run by nearly 7,000 employees. It operates in France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, and offers a complete range of services

The management board and the supervisory board of Deutsche Börse Aktiengesellschaft have made a joint statement recommending that the company’s shareholders accept the offer by Alpha Beta Netherlands Holding N.V under which they will receive one share of the Dutch holding for each share in Deutsche Börse. The Dutch holding