Blackstone-backed Xpansiv, a market-infrastructure platform for global carbon and environmental commodities, has completed its acquisition of APX, a specialist in registry infrastructure for energy and environmental markets. Earlier this month, Blackstone announced that funds managed by Blackstone Energy Partners (Blackstone) committed $400 million to lead a strategic investment in Xpansiv.

New Mountain Capital, a growth-oriented investment firm with over $37 billion in assets under management, is to acquire PerkinElmer’s Applied, Food and Enterprise Services businesses, a carve-out from the Discovery & Analytical Solutions segment of PerkinElmer, Inc (NYSE: PKI), for up to $2.45 billion. The business being acquired includes PerkinElmer’s

An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has acquired Barton & Associates Inc, a healthcare staffing company focused on locum tenens with additional capabilities in travel nursing, allied healthcare, and government-related physician staffing markets. Barton offers healthcare staffing services on a temporary basis to hundreds of healthcare facilities. The Company provides

Leisure goods provider TotalCool has secured a £500,000 capital investment from alternative funding provider Growth Lending, to support the firm’s cash flow during an important period of expansion. Founded in 2015, TotalCool specialises in the leisure and camping industry and will use the funds to support its goal of expanding

Middle market private equity firm Gryphon Investors (Gryphon) has acquired Rootstock Software (Rootstock), a provider of cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain organisations, which are increasingly seeking cloud-native, purpose-built ERP solutions to streamline business operations. Both Salesforce Ventures and the company’s management team re-invested

The UK’s largest distributor of decorative surfaces, International Decorative Surfaces (IDS), has completed a management buyout in partnership with private equity investor Chiltern Capital, with the support of a multi-million asset-based lending facility from Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance. The facility will also support IDS’ working capital needs, as it

Buyout firm Permira is hoping to agree a £1.3 billion deal to acquire Reorg Research Inc, a financial data vendor specialising in debt restructuring, according to a report by Reuters. The report cites unnamed sources as revealing that the deal would see private equity firm Warburg Pincus, which valued Reorg

BuiltAI, an AI platform for the commercial real estate market, has closed a £2 million seed round led by former Apple/DataTiger executives Philipp Mohr and Puli Liyanagama and supported by MMC Ventures, Plug and Play and an InnovateUK Smart Grant. The new funds will fuel BuiltAI’s R&D and product growth

US private equity firms Carlye Group and Advent International are to acquire a 10% stake in India’s Yes Bank, according to a report by Reuters.

Ironwood Capital has invested in Pro Disposal USA (Pro Disposal), a vertically integrated waste management service provider permitted to handle waste from initial collection, through its managed transfer station, to final disposal. The investment will support Pro Disposal’s acquisition of Carolina Containers of Beaufort and Barnwell Resources (“CCB”), a collection