Entrepreneurial Equity Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on the food and consumer packaged goods industries, has acquired MBC Companies from Encore Consumer Capital, in partnership with the existing management team.

Funds managed by CapVest Partners are to acquire Kerridge Commercial Systems, a global provider of enterprise resource planning software for distribution, servicing and rental businesses, from Accel-KKR, a global technology-focused investment firm.

Global private equity and venture capital deal value and volume continued their downward trend in June, with total deal value for the month slipping 59.3 per cent year on year to $27bn from $66.4bn in the same period a year ago, according to a report by The Business Times. The

Cap10, a pan-European, mid-market private equity firm based in London, has made its first acquisition, acquiring 100% of Sureserve Group, a compliance and energy services business, in a take private deal that values the company at £214m. Sureserve, an energy and compliance services provider to the social housing sector in

Vector Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm focused on investments in technology businesses with over $4 billion of capital across its private equity and credit strategies, has acquired Riverbed Technology, an IT enterprise solutions provider for global organisations.

Clearlake Capital Group and Symphony Technology Group, have completed the sale of Archer Technologies, a provider of integrated risk management cloud software solutions, to international private equity firm Cinven. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

Nordic Capital has agreed to sell Macrobond, a global provider of software and macroeconomic and financial data, to Francisco Partners, a private investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses.