Authentic Brands Group has completed a USD250m equity capital raise with Green Equity Investors V, an affiliate of Leonard Green & Partners, Knight’s Bridge Capital Partners, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Counsel Corporation, and Authentic Brands Group’s chairman, president and chief executive officer James Salter. The equity capital will be used

Vanguard Minerals, a strategic consulting company, has launched a venture capital and incubation division, GreenZone Ventures. The new division will have a primary goal of identifying, investing in, partnering with and supporting companies in the green energy industry. Specifically, GreenZone will target bio-fuels, green energy, and emerging technology companies in

Cronus Partners has acted as the exclusive financial adviser to CAM Commerce Solutions, a portfolio company of Great Hill Partners, in the sale of its point-of-sale software division to Robertson Piper Software Group. The former payments processing division of CAM Commerce, now operating under the name Accelerated Payment Technologies, remains

Polaris Private Equity III has held its final close at EUR365m.   The number of investors has more than doubled, with international investors now accounting for nearly 40 per cent of the fund. The investment focus remains on small and medium sized businesses based in Denmark and Sweden.    Commitments to

Private equity firm Riverside has acquired Australian Medico Legal Services, an independent medical evaluation provider, via the Riverside Asia Fund I. MLCOA is based in Melbourne, Australia and provides independent medical assessments and related medical advisory services for insurance organisations, corporations, and government and legal entities. Core services involve medical

Genstar Capital, a middle market private equity firm that focuses on investments in the life science, healthcare services, software, financial services and industrial technology industries, has acquired Granite Global Solutions, a Canadian provider of risk mitigation services to insurance and corporate clients. Headquartered in the greater Toronto area, Granite Global

Savvis, a provider of cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fusepoint, a portfolio company of M/C Venture Partners.  Fusepoint is an independent provider of managed IT and co-location services to enterprises in Canada. Under the agreement, Savvis will acquire Fusepoint