Mr Christmas, a multi-generational family-owned holiday décor business, has secured a capital investment from Sachs Capital and its affiliated entities. The transaction is the final investment of Sachs Capital Fund II, which is managed by Andrew Sachs and provides flexible, non-control, long-term capital to successful entrepreneurs and family-owned businesses.  Mr

LUCA Science, a global innovator in the development of a novel class of mitochondria biopharmaceutical agents, has closed a JPY3.86 billion ($30.3 million) oversubscribed Series B financing. The round was co-led by DCI Partners, 4BIO Capital and existing investor Fast Track Initiative and supported by an international syndicate of existing

Vehlo, a provider of software and financial solutions for the automotive repair industry, has secured a majority investment from family office Greater Sum Ventures (GSV), an entrepreneurial family office. GSV is joined by existing investors PSG, HarbourVest Partners, and Parkwood, and new investor Lightyear Capital (Lightyear).  Financial terms of the

Connection Capital-backed Mode Solutions, a provider of turnkey digital managed services, has acquired Huntingdon-based IT Managed Services provider, EACS.

Cairngorm Capital Partners’ portfolio company, Independent Builders Merchant Group (IBMG) has acquired Wantage Builders Merchants Limited (Wantage). Wantage is a single branch, independent builders merchant located in Wantage, Oxfordshire. It offers a mix of heavy and lightside building materials to local trade and retail customers. This acquisition continues IBMG’s strategy

RedBird Capital Partners (RedBird) is to acquire Associazione Calcio Milan (AC Milan), the newly crowned Champions of Italy’s Series A, from Elliott Advisors UK Limited (Elliott).

Nordic private equity investor Polaris has acquired a majority stake in Esoft Systems A/S (Esoft) – a specialist in photos, video, text and digital marketing for the real estate industry. Since its foundation in 2000, Esoft has become an internationally based company that is present in over 20 markets on four

OpenGate Capital, a global private equity firm, has exited its investment in EverZinc, a global provider of specialty zinc materials, through a sale to US Zinc, a portfolio company of Aterian Investment Partners. Terms of the investment have not been disclosed. EverZinc is headquartered in Liège, Belgium and has industrial

Sortera, a portfolio company of Nordic Capital, is acquiring O’Donovan Waste Disposal Ltd, a London-based specialist in collection and recycling of construction waste, with about 100 employees. The acquisition of O’Donovan is Sortera’sthe  first in UK and is part of the company’s effort to expand in Europe’s major cities. 

Warner Pacific, a leading employee benefits–focused General Agency backed by private equity firm Lovell Minnick, has acquired Beta Health Association’s (Beta Health) commercial dental health platform. Beta Health was a provider of group voluntary and contributory dental, vision, life, and disability products in Colorado prior to the acquisition.  This is