TA Associates, a leading growth private equity firm, today announced it has completed a minority investment in Tega Industries Ltd, a designer and producer of consumables for the mining industry. Terms of the investment have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Kolkata, India and founded in 1976, Tega offers a range

HCI Equity Partners (HCI) has been formed by the Managing Partners and investment team of Thayer | Hidden Creek Partners to assume the management of the funds and operations of Thayer | Hidden Creek Partners.  HCI was formed to better reflect the heritage of the team and strategy which originated

Funds advised by HIG European Capital Partners LLP and its debt affiliate Bayside Capital have acquired Silentnight, Ltd. the UK’s leading bed & mattress manufacturer. This is after Silentnight was forced to file for administration following unsuccessful negotiations with the Pension Protection Fund over the company’s unserviceable pension deficit. The

Harris Williams & Co has advised Idaho Pacific Holdings, Inc (IPH), a subsidiary of Otter Tail Corporation, on the company’s sale to to Novacap Industries III, LP (Novacap). The transaction closed on May 6, 2011. Harris Williams & Co. acted as the lead advisor to IPH.  The transaction was led

Santa Rosa, California-based Praxis Capital LLC has acquired the 136-unit Elm Grove Apartments in the master planned community of Kingwood, Texas, a class A suburb of Houston.  This stabilised, yet high potential complex, is the second Texas acquisition targeted and acquired by Praxis Capital in the last ten weeks.  

Impetus Capital is investing in Audience Entertainment, the New York-based developer of a proprietary interactive platform that provides innovative marketing and advertising experiences. Co-owned by industry leader YDreams, the Company employs pioneering digital technology which enables audience participation in "Kinect" games sponsored by major advertisers in a mass consumer setting.

Clearspring Technologies, Inc, provider of the largest social content sharing platform AddThis, has closed a USD20M series D round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), alongside Clearspring’s existing investors. IVP has funded some of the fastest-growing, data-driven online companies including Twitter and Zynga.   This investment comes amid

Harris Williams & Co has advised Cogent Healthcare, Inc over its merger with Hospitalists Management Group, LLC (HMG), a portfolio company of AEA Investors LP (AEA). The transaction closed on May 4, 2011.   The transaction was executed by Turner Bredrup, Cheairs Porter, Andy Dixon, and Dusty Lieb from the

A return of the sellers’ market, and increased deal flow – these are among the headline findings of the CMS European M&A Study 2011 launched today. The study analyses exclusive data compiled from more than 1,000 of its own M&A deals since 2007, including some 300 deals in 2010 alone.