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First Reserve sells equity interest in Bahamas Oil Refining Company

Investment firm First Reserve has sold its 80 per cent equity interest in the Bahamas Oil Refining Company oil storage terminal to Buckeye Partners for USD1.36bn. First Reserve and Vopak, the tank terminal operator, acquired the Borco oil storage terminal in Freeport, Bahamas, in April 2008 as a joint venture.

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F2i and Axa Private Equity acquire Italian gas distributer E.ON Rete

Italian fund management company F2i and Axa Private Equity have agreed to acquire 100 per cent of the capital of E.ON Rete, a fully-owned company of E.ON Italia. E.ON Rete operates in the natural gas distribution industry in Italy. It supplies about 600,000 gas delivery points located in around 300

LDC exits British Salt in GBP93m sale to Brunner Mond

LDC, a UK mid-market private equity firm, has fully exited its investment in Cheshire Salt Holdings, the parent company of Middlewich-based British Salt, in a sale to Brunner Mond.  The transaction remains subject to regulatory approval, which is expected in January.   Brunner Mond, which is wholly owned by Tata

Foundation Venture Capital Group invests in spinal cord injuries specialist

Foundation Venture Capital Group has made an investment in Celvive, a start-up company working to develop technology that would treat patients with chronic spinal cord injuries with their own adult stem cells. FVCG has made an initial investment of USD175,000 in Celvive, which can go up to USD500,000 pending completion

Golub Capital provides senior debt financing to support Tecomet

Golub Capital has served as sole bookrunner and administrative agent for a USD56.8m senior debt financing for Tecomet, a portfolio company of Charlesbank Capital Partners.  Tecomet is a contract manufacturing, engineering and metal fabrication technology company based in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The company specialises in net shape forging, precision machining, photochemical

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CMS Hasche Sigle advises Aheim Capital on MBO of Metzgerei Zeiss

Following a management buy-out at catering chain Metzgerei Zeiss, the two executives previously responsible for sales and finance are taking over the running of the business. They are acquiring shares in the company together with funds managed by private equity investor Aheim Capital. A member of the Zeiss family, previously

Montagu Private Equity to acquire Helly Hansen Pro

Montagu Private Equity has agreed to acquire Helly Hansen Pro in partnership with its existing management team from the Helly Hansen Group. HH Pro is a provider of survival and personal protection suits to predominantly the offshore and shipping markets. Going forward the company will be rebranded Hansen Protection. HH

RJD backs management buyout of Chemigraphic

RJD Partners, a UK lower middle market private equity investor, has backed the buyout of family-owned Chemigraphic, an electronic manufacturing services provider in the UK. Crawley-based Chemigraphic was founded in 1972 by Frank and Julia Graham, a husband and wife team, who held the respective roles of chief executive and

Albion Ventures invests GBP2m in solar panel installer Engensa

Albion Ventures has made a GBP2m investment in Engensa, a domestic solar panel installer, to provide a free solar energy offer to domestic home owners in the Windsor and Maidenhead area.  The programme will see Engensa install Solar PV systems equal to 2.6kWp, 3.3kWp or 9.9kWp on approximately 200 homes

CMS Hasche Sigle advises Porsche on acquisition of dealerships in Hamburg

With effect from 1 February 2011, Porsche Deutschland is acquiring two Porsche Centres in Hamburg from the Raffay Group – Porsche-Zentrum Hamburg and Porsche-Zentrum Hamburg Nord-West. After Stuttgart and Berlin, Hamburg is the third location where car manufacturer Porsche will be managing its dealerships itself. Porsche was advised on all

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