MCG Capital has closed its investment in IDOC consisting of senior debt and equity. IDOC, a portfolio company of The Riverside Company, is comprised of an alliance of independent optometrists throughout the US, including practices representing more than 1,400 optometrist members. The IDOC investment is MCG’s first with The Riverside
Albion Ventures has invested GBP1.3m in partnership with Welsh based developer Dragon Hydro to fund the development of a single 300kW hydropower scheme on the Afon Cadair river in the county of Gwynedd in Wales. The site in Wales will benefit from the Feed-in-Tariff regime and is expecting to generate

Private equity investor HgCapital has sold its operating UK onshore wind portfolio to Munich Re, represented by its asset management arm MEAG, for an undisclosed sum. The portfolio consists of three operating wind farms with a combined capacity of 102MW. The portfolio was held by HgCapital Renewable Power Partners, HgCapital’s
Los Angeles-based private equity firm Aurora Capital Group has acquired Market Track, a provider of promotional intelligence solutions in North America, from Monitor Clipper Partners, a Boston-based PE firm (MCP). Key leadership, including CEO Wayne Mincey and President Paul Salay, will remain in their respective roles. Terms of the transaction
WL Ross & Co has agreed to purchase 4.4 million common shares of Navigator Holdings owned by Lehman Brothers Inc (LBI) for USD110 million. James W Giddens, Trustee for the Securities Investor Protection Act liquidation of LBI, has submitted a motion to the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Southern
Affiliates of GS Capital Partners have closed a previously announced equity investment in Plastipak Holdings, a supplier of plastic packaging solutions to the world’s largest consumer product companies. The investment will position Plastipak to further capitalise on substantial growth opportunities across its global business platform. Plastipak has been owned and
KMCO has been acquired by Owner Resource Group (ORG), an Austin, Texas based private equity firm. Westlake Securities advised ORG throughout the deal process. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Crosby-based KMCO, founded in 1975, is a chemical processing and manufacturing company serving the automotive, petroleum, industrial and agricultural
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group and the management of The TCW Group, an asset management firm, are to acquire TCW from Société Générale. As a result of the transaction, TCW management and employees will increase their ownership in the firm to approximately 40 per cent on a fully
Aurora Resurgence, an affiliate of Los Angeles-based private equity firm Aurora Capital Group, has sold New Star Metals and its Premier Resource Group and Electric Coatings Technologies subsidiaries to an affiliate of Insight Equity Holdings. In conjunction with this transaction, Aurora Resurgence also sold the US Metals and Supply division
Add-on activity in Europe has remained at the subdued levels seen in quarter one 2012 and below even the weak second half of 2011, according to Buy & Build Monitor for Q2 2012 published by Silverfleet Capital in conjunction with mergermarket. The volume of buy and build activity in Europe
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