Dallas-based private equity firm CenterOak Partners’ (CenterOak) portfolio company Service Champions has acquired Bell Brothers Plumbing Heating and Air (Bell Brothers), a provider of residential air conditioning and plumbing services in Sacramento, California.The acquisition is the third since Service Champions received an investment from CenterOak and expands the Company’s footprint

Funds advised by Apax Partners (Apax Funds) are to acquire Cadence Education, a provider of early childhood education in North America, from investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Capital Partners (MSCP). The transaction is expected to complete in March 2020. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Cadence Education serves families

Align Capital Partners (ACP) has closed a third strategic add-on for its utility intelligence platform E Source, with the acquisition of TROVE Predictive Data Science (TROVE) a, provider of predictive analytics solutions for the utility industry. TROVE’s team of data scientists and engineers have developed artificial intelligence (“AI”) software to help