HSBC’s North West leverage finance team has played a key role in supporting three acquisitions made by the Manchester-based Concept Life Sciences Group, a newly formed scientific laboratory and consultancy business. Following backing from Equistone Partners Europe, which has taken a majority stake in the group, Concept Life Sciences has

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is to acquire Sparta Systems, a provider of enterprise quality management solutions (EQMS), from current investors Summit Partners and Altaris Capital Partners. Financial details have not been disclosed, and the transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2014.   “We are excited

An affiliate of private equity firm CI Capital Partners is to acquire Maroon Incorporated, which has changed its name to Maroon Group, a North American distributor of specialty chemicals based in Avon, Ohio. Maroon’s management team retains a significant equity interest in the company. Terms of the transaction were not