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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice to acquire Cynosure

Funds managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) are to cquire Cynosure, a specialist in medical aesthetics systems and technologies, from Hologic. Cynosure develops, manufactures, and markets medical aesthetic treatment systems for dermatologists, plastic surgeons, medical spas, and other healthcare practitioners.The company’s broad portfolio of products spans several major categories,

Baring Private Equity Asia to acquire Lumenis

Baring Private Equity Asia’s affiliated private equity funds (BPEA) have agreed to acquire Lumenis, a leading provider of specialty energy-based medical devices across the fields of aesthetics, urology, ophthalmology, ENT and gynecology from XIO. The transaction values Lumenis at an enterprise value of over USD1 billion. Lumenis is a global

Vista Equity Partners acquires Accelya

Vista Equity Partners (Vista), an investment firm focused on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, has acquired Accelya, a provider of financial, commercial and analytics solutions to the airline and travel industry. Vista’s investment in Accelya is the first made by the firm’s permanent capital investment fund Vista Equity Partners

Foresight makes circa two-times return in three years on sale of Idio to Episerver

Foresight Group (Foresight), an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has sold Idio Limited (Idio) to Episerver, a customer-centric digital experience company. The acquisition is expected to enhance Episerver’s analytics and personalisation capabilities to deliver customer-centric digital experiences. Idio is a content personalisation and analytics platform powering the digital

Avedon Capital Partners sells its investment in Olympia

Avedon Capital Partners has sold its stake in Olympia, an employment agency focused on the social transition to meaningful work, to Morgan Stanley Tactical Value Investing. Morgan Stanley Tactical Value Investing will support Olympia in the next phase of its growth and strategy. Olympia has over 10 years of industry

Cairngorm Capital acquires Grant & Stone

Specialist private investment firm, Cairngorm Capital Partners (Cairngorm Capital), has acquired independent builders’ merchant, Grant & Stone, and its commence subsidiary, Trading Depot UK Limited. Cairngorm Capital has acquired Grant & Stone from its founding shareholders and will support the current management team, led by Chief Executive, Nick House.  

Protegis acquires Florida Fire Service

Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) Fire and life safety platform, Protegis Fire and Safety (Protegis), has acquired Florida Fire Service (Florida Fire). The Tampa-based company provides fire alarm, sprinkler and extinguisher inspection and repair services, along with service and installation. As a result of Protegis’ growth, Florida Fire now employs nearly

Arlington Capital Partners agrees to sell Quantum Spatial to NV5 Global for USD303m

Washington DC-based private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington Capital) has agreed to sell Quantum Spatial (Quantum) to NV5 Global for USD303 million. Quantum Spatial, one of the USA’s largest independent geospatial data firms, provides geographic insights to government and corporate organisations that need geospatial intelligence to mitigate risk, plan for

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