An affiliate of global alternative investment firm HIG Capital has completed a growth investment in ThoughtFocus, Inc, a global provider of digital services and technology enabled digital operations focused primarily on the financial services end market. 

Global software and technology investment firm Thoma Bravo has closed a strategic growth investment in SMA Technologies, a provider of automation solutions for the financial services industry.  Financial terms of the transaction, which sees existing investor ParkerGale Capital retain a minority position in the business, have not been disclosed. SMA,

An affiliate of HIG Capital has completed the acquisition of the distribution segment of Avient Corporation which will now operate as an independent entity and be renamed Formerra.

A shareholder group led by private equity firm Nordic Capital has agreed to sell The Binding Site Group (Binding Site), a specialty diagnostics company headquartered in Birmingham, UK, to Thermo Fisher Scientific for £2.25 billion. Nordic Capital has been the majority owner of The Binding Site since 2011 when it

Resolution Economics a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, has acquired Berkshire Associates, a provider of outsourced affirmative action plan consulting and software services, compensation analysis and other human resource compliance-related services. 

An investor group led by private investment firm Littlejohn & Co (Littlejohn) has acquired Lipari Foods (Lipari), a specialty food distributor. The Lipari family, management, HIG Capital, and Sterling Investment Partners all remain minority investors in the Company.  Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Lipari specialises in “perimeter-of-the-store”