Energy management company BAS has been acquired by Bridgepoint Development Capital with backing from Yorkshire Bank Corporate & Structured Finance in Manchester. BAS, which is the largest independent player in the long term support and implementation of intelligent building energy management systems in the UK, was founded in 2006 following

Albion Ventures has invested GBP4.35m in Oakland Care Centre to set up a specialist dementia care facility in Chingford, Greater London.  Oakland has acquired a freehold site on which it will develop a facility catering for the needs of up to 45 residents suffering from dementia.  The facility is due

Summit Materials, a building materials company, has concluded the acquisition of RK Hall Construction, Buster Crushed Stone and associated companies, based in Texas. RK Hall is an aggregates, asphalt production, paving and construction business with operations in northeast Texas, southeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas. RK Hall will become part of

Vespa Capital, a private equity company founded in 2008, has completed its first exit as with the sale of James Villa Holidays to Wyndham Exchange & Rentals. Established in 1984, James Villa Holidays is a villa tour operator in the UK. It offers accommodation in over 50 destinations across the

Glencoe Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm, has sold its Toronto-based artisan bakery business, ACE Bakery, to Weston Foods (Canada) for CAD110m. The ACE transaction was the fourth realisation of Glencoe Capital’s third private equity fund, Glencoe Capital Partners III, which has invested in a variety of sectors ranging from

Quarterly data published by Silverfleet Capital, a European private equity firm that specialises in buy and build, suggests the number of buy and build transactions completed by private equity backed companies across Europe during first three quarters of 2010 was up almost one third (32 per cent) on the same

Arsenal Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, has acquired Royal Adhesives & Sealants from Quad-C Management. Headquartered in South Bend, Indiana, Royal offers a range of products designed to solve complex bonding, laminating and sealing applications across a range of markets including aerospace and defence, construction, specialty packaging,

HarbourVest Global Private Equity, a closed-end investment company listed on Euronext Amsterdam and the Specialist Fund Market of the London Stock Exchange, has reported an estimated economic net asset value of USD776.1m or USD9.35 per share as of 31 October, a 3.5 per cent increase from the 31 July economic

Cenveo, a manager and distributor of print products and solutions, has acquired Impaxx, the sole owner of Gilbreth Packaging Solutions, from affiliates of Aurora Capital Group, a Los Angeles private equity firm.  Gilbreth operates a facility in Pennsylvania and has approximately 75 employees. It uses multiple printing technologies as a