Premium bar and nightclub operator Novus Leisure has been sold by majority shareholders Barclays Ventures and RBS Strategic investment Group for GBP100m to new investors LGV Capital and Hutton Collins, which have backed the existing management team. Novus Leisure is the UK’s largest private bar and nightclub operator having a
Koontz-Wagner has completed the previously announced sale of its subsidiary, Koontz-Wagner Custom Controls, to Global Power Equipment Group. Custom Controls is a manufacturer and integrator of engineered packaged control house solutions for the energy, oil and gas, and electrical industries. Headquartered in Indiana, Custom Controls has delivered products and services
European private equity firm Cinven has sold 10.8 million ordinary shares of Ziggo NV, the largest cable operator in the Netherlands, at a price of EUR23.50 per share, realising EUR255m of gross proceeds. Following the listing in March 2012 and this sale of shares, Ziggo will have generated total proceeds
Total assets under management held by private equity funds worldwide have reached USD3 trillion for the first time, highlighting the sustained growth of the industry despite challenging wider economic conditions, according to research conducted by Preqin for the 2012 Private Equity Performance Monitor. The figure is calculated using unrealised portfolio
CitySprint, a UK same day distribution network, has completed its sixth acquisition since it was backed by Dunedin, the UK mid-market private equity house, in 2010. CitySprint has acquired the same day courier, UK overnight and international operations of Scarlet Couriers. CitySprint is on track to deliver GBP100m of revenues
Maitland, the international wealth and fund services firm, has acquired 100 per cent of Inter-Ocean Management, a corporate services and trust company based in Mauritius. The deal takes effect from 1 July 2012. Over the past five years, Mauritius has transformed itself into a springboard for trade and investment into
AXA Private Equity, the European diversified private equity firm, has signed an agreement with the management team of Fives Group, led by Frédéric Sanchez, to acquire a stake in the company. As part of the same transaction, the management team becomes the majority stakeholder as Fives enters the next phase
United Initiators has acquired Syrgis Performance Initiators (SPI) from Syrgis Performance Products, which is owned by Edgewater Capital Partners. SPI is a manufacturer of customer tailored formulations of ketone peroxides in North America and Europe and benzoyl peroxides in North America. Both products are organic peroxide initiators used in
An affiliate of private equity investment firm HIG Capital has completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Arctic Glacier Income Fund. The transaction was effectuated pursuant to the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) and the US Bankruptcy Code. The new company, Arctic Glacier Holdings, will be based in
Bertram Capital has sold Author Solutions to Pearson, a learning company and parent of Penguin Books. The USD116m all-cash deal marks Bertram Capital’s third portfolio company exit in the last nine months. Since Bertram Capital’s investment in 2007, ASI has grown to be a leading provider of professional self-publishing services.
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