Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising mid-market companies, has acquired Bandon Holdings, the largest franchisee in the Anytime Fitness family. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Based in Austin, Texas, Bandon operates 213 Anytime Fitness clubs and has more than 140,000 members. Bandon’s

Ironwood Capital has exited its investment in Ripley Tools (Ripley), which was sold to Hubbell Incorporated earlier this month. Ripley designs and manufactures cable preparation tools, testing and measuring equipment for the fibre optic, coaxial cable, telecom and electrical utility markets. Ironwood Capital provides non-control growth capital to middle market

An affiliate of IK Partners’ IK VII Fund has entered into a put option agreement to sell its stake in Exxelia to global aerospace business HEICO Corporation (HEICO).

An affiliate of Clearlake Capital Group has acquired BBB Industries (BBB), a sustainable manufacturer of non-discretionary automotive, industrial, energy storage, and solar parts, from Genstar Capital (Genstar). Duncan Gillis, CEO of BBB, will continue to lead the Company supported by the existing management team. The terms of the transaction were

Algebris Investments’ first private equity fund, the Algebris Green Transition Fund, is acquiring a majority stake in Omnisyst, an Italian provider of waste management solutions for industrial and commercial clients in what will be the fund’s first investment. The Algebris Green Transition Fund will acquire 70% of the share capital

Keensight Capital is to invest alongside management in Axxam, a innovative Partner Research Organization (iPRO) in the life sciences industry. The deal will see the private equity manager acquire a majority stake in Axxam from the current shareholders, including Bayer SpA and Zambon Company SpA. Axxam, headquartered in Milan (Italy),

Azimut Group’s (Azimut) US subsidiaries, Azimut Alternative Capital Partners, and AACP Investments (together AACP), are to acquire a minority equity interest in RoundShield Partners, a European special opportunities investment firm with offices in Jersey, London, Geneva, Madrid, Paris and Luxembourg. The Eversource Energy Retirement Plan, AACP’s first strategic limited partner,

Spartan Group has led a multi-million dollar seed funding round in CLST, an institutional-only lending and borrowing venue for stablecoins and other cryptocurrency assets.

Existing investors, including bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thüringen (bm|t), and a new family office, have led a €10 million series A funding round in German medtech startup PreciPoint Group, a specialist in the digitalisation of microscopy and laboratory workflows. This financing will be used to advance the international commercialisation of the company´s

Blackstone Energy Partners and Blackstone private equity (Blackstone) are to make a significant strategic investment in Esdec Solar Group BV (Esdec), a global specialist  in rooftop solar mounting systems. Esdec was acquired by Rivean Capital (Rivean) and its management team in 2018 who have since transformed the business from a