Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed an investment to support the multi-million pound management buy-out of Connect Communications, a provider of telephone systems and unified communications channels to businesses across the UK, mainland Europe, Middle East and Africa. Established in 1992, Connect Communications manages the day-to-day running of multi-site
Middle market private equity firm Castle Harlan has acquired Gold Star Foods, a nutritional food distributor to K-12 schools in California, Arizona and Nevada. The seller was the Chicago private equity firm Prospect Partners. Gold Star, based in Ontario, California, serves 380 school districts comprised of more than 3,500
Impax has closed the project financing of the Joukhaisselkä wind park in Northern Finland with Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) and has completed the acquisition of the Kuolavaara-Keulakkopää wind park from Fortum and Metsähallitus. The Kuolavaara-Keulakkopää wind park is located in the Kittilä and Sodankylä municipalities and is the second project
Ipreo Holdings is to be acquired by private equity funds managed by Blackstone and the Goldman Sachs merchant banking division. The sponsors are acquiring the business from affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), who will retain a minority ownership stake in the business. Terms of the transaction have not been
High Street Capital has sold its investment in BeneSys, a benefits payments processing services company, to The Riverside Company, a private equity firm. BeneSys provides third party administration and related outsourced software services for Taft-Hartley union trust funds. The company was advised by KPMG Corporate Finance in connection with
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has completed a significant investment to support the GBP30m acquisition of Prism UK Medical Limited form Toronto-based TSX Venture Exchange-listed Prism Medical Ltd. Prism is a provider of safe patient handling solutions that enable the mobility disadvantaged to live at home in a safe and
Women’s health diagnostic company Concepta has completed a GBP2.3m round of equity financing managed by Diagnostic Capital. The company was founded off the back of the technology and expertise of former senior Unipath scientists, who were responsible for creating leading brands of digital fertility tests, pregnancy tests and other women’s
Mobeus Investments has partially realised its investment in VSI Limited by selling one of the firm’s two operating businesses, MachineWorks Software, to Westec Holding Company. The value of the deal has not been disclosed. Mobeus backed the management buyout of VSI back in 2006. Based in Sheffield, MachineWorks
More than 200 jobs have been saved after Enact, the GBP7.5m SME fund launched by private equity house Endless, agreed to buy 35 West Cornwall Pasty Company outlets and stores, together with the brand. The deal follows the appointment of administrators over the company. The investment in West Cornwall
Sub-investment grade corporate credit specialist Alcentra, part of BNY Mellon, has invested in Menix Groupe, the holding company for healthcare firms Serf, Dedienne Santé and Global D and a manufacturer of orthopaedic and dental implants in France. The funding takes the form of a unitranche investment provided by funds managed
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