San Francisco-based investment firm Knox Lane has acquired a majority stake in All Star Healthcare Solutions, a US full-service healthcare staffing firm focused on the locum tenens market. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

Funds managed by affiliates of Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, have acquired Civica, a public sector software solutions provider, from private markets firm Partners Group, acting on behalf of clients.

Level, a UK-based and FCA-regulated lender operating in the family and private client law sectors, has secured a £5m equity investment from private equity firm Kendal Capital and acquired probate finance provider Tower Street Finance.

Swander Pace Capital, a private equity firm specialising in consumer product companies, has sold Functional Formularies, a provider of organic, whole food, shelf-stable feeding tube formulas, to Danone.

Lower middle market-focused global private investor The Riverside Company has acquired Arbeidsmiljø og Energiteknikk, a Norwegian distributor of third-party consumables and laboratory cleaning equipment, from RA Service and management.

European middle-market private equity firm Inflexion has sold its stake in UK automotive retailing solutions provider Automotive Transformation Group to global automotive technology company Keyloop.

An affiliate of private investment advisory firm Sun European Partners has agreed to sell UK environmental risk reduction specialist Adler & Allan to the private equity business at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.