Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is to acquire HD Supply Holding’s Waterworks business unit (Waterworks), a distributor of water, sewer, storm and fire protection products, for USD2.5 billion. Through a carve-out transaction, Waterworks will become an independent company, wholly-owned by CD&R funds. Waterworks is a leading US distributor of
Dentons has advised private equity investor Rutland Partners (Rutland) on its recent pound investment in Aston Barclay, the independent car auction group which provides vehicle remarketing services to fleet and dealership vendors. Aston Barclay, which currently operates from four sites in the UK, has invested heavily in recent years in
Century Bridge Capital has successfully exited and repatriated the proceeds from its investment in Ningbo, China. The fund closed on its investment in the USD122 million, 840 unit development in March 2016 in joint venture with Hong Kong listed national developer, Jingrui Holdings. The investment represents Century Bridge’s second
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has made a GBP2.5 million VCT qualifying investment in Horizon Cremation Limited (Horizon), which is embarking on an ambitious growth strategy in a sector experiencing increased demand for better quality service and facilities. Development capital provided by Maven clients will support this
Linklaters has advised Eni, a multinational oil and gas company, together with its Area 4 partners, CNPC, ENH, GALP and KOGAS on an ECA-backed multi-billion dollar project financing for the USD8 billion Coral South floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique. The financing is Africa’s largest ever project financing
Pan-European mid-market private equity firm Agilitas’ portfolio company Reconor, one of the leading environmental services groups in Denmark, has acquired 100 per cent of Lotra A/S, an environmental services business based in Kolding, Denmark. Financial details for the transaction are not being disclosed. Founded in 2000 by its CEO
Private equity investor Advent International has signed an agreement to acquire Danish food packaging company Færch Plast A/S (Færch Plast) from private equity fund EQT VI. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Færch Plast is a Danish packaging company that holds a leading position within rigid plastic
EMW, the commercial law firm, has advised Northampton-based real estate investment and development business, Barwood Capital on the initial GBP42 million close of its 2017 UK regional property fund. EMW explains that the fund focuses on property assets within the UK’s prime regional markets outside of London. The GBP42m raised
EISER Finance Limited (EISER) has reached financial close on a portfolio sale of assets to a fund managed by 3i Group plc (3i) from the EISER Global Infrastructure Fund (EGIF). As part of the original sales agreement with 3i, EISER’s existing investors in EGIF were offered the opportunity to choose
Bluebee, a provider of high-performance genomics analysis and storage solutions, and MediSapiens, a biomedical big data curation, management and interpretation company, have formed a partnership to provide customers with analytical solutions for next generation sequencing data. Sequencing technology is maturing and being optimised for performance, while becoming increasingly affordable.
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