Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has acquired 60 per cent of Tok&Stok, Brazil’s largest specialty furniture retailer by sales, from founders Ghislaine and Régis Dubrule. Dubrule will remain chief executive of Tok&Stok following the transaction and the founders will retain a 40 per cent stake in the company. Equity
iWalk has closed a private series D equity financing round of USD17m led by new investor Gilde Healthcare Partners. Geoff Pardo, partner at Gilde Healthcare Partners, has joined the company’s board of directors. Existing investors, including WFD Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, and Sigma Partners also participated in the financing round.
The Mergermarket Group has acquired Inframation Group. Livingstone advised the shareholders of Inframation on the transaction. With offices in London and New York, Inframation Group is a provider of information and senior-level events for the global infrastructure finance community with four information products: 1. InfraNews is an internationally-respected online news
MidSpan Partners has sold Jordan Technologies to Flare Industries, a portfolio company of Texas-based private equity firm Turnbridge Capital. Jordan Technologies is a supplier of vapour recovery units (VRUs) and the largest service provider for VRUs in the world. MidSpan Partners served as the exclusive financial adviser to the Jordan
HIG Europe has closed its acquisition of the Specialty Alumina business of listed global mining firm Rio Tinto Group. With effect from 1 August 2012, the new group will be renamed ALTEO. With turnover of nearly EUR300m, ALTEO is a global integrated producer and supplier of specialty non-metallurgical grade alumina.
Resilience Capital Partners, a Cleveland-based private equity firm, has acquired R&D Enterprises, an original equipment manufacturer of highly-engineered heat exchange and cooling products serving the off-road, marine, on-highway and industrial end markets. R&D Enterprises is Resilience Capital Partners’ first add-on acquisition by its Thermal Solutions Manufacturing investment platform, which it
European private capital group Metric Capital Partners (MCP) has completed its investment in Kedleston UK, a UK-based provider of care, education and support services for children with emotional, behavioural and learning disabilities. Headquartered in London, Kedleston currently operates nine schools throughout the UK and has a broad offering, providing care
Middle-market private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital’s newly formed portfolio company, Heligear Acquisition Holdings, has acquired substantially all of the operating assets of Northstar Aerospace (NSA) and its subsidiaries through court administered insolvency proceedings in both the US and Canada. Headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Bedford Park, Illinois, the company
Gimv has taken a stake in GOVECS together with BayBG as co-investor. GOVECS is a European manufacturer of e-scooters. The company’s products range from e-scooters with a top speed of 25 km/h to models capable of up to 85 km/h. In 2011 and 2012, GOVECS scooters were named “European E-Scooter
Actis, the pan-emerging markets private equity firm, has confirmed an investment of USD68m in CNA, a provider of English language training in Brazil. A portion of the investment will be funded from Actis’s new global fund, Actis 4. CNA was established in 1970 and is now among the four
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