Private equity group Innova Capital is to sell its 100 per stake in Trimo, a leading European producer of high quality façade and building envelope solutions, to Kingspan Group.  The parties have not disclosed the terms of the transaction.  Completion remains subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to take

Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the financial services, healthcare, industrial, and software industries, has appointed Mitch Aiello, who has over 30 years of commercial, technical and operational experience in highly-engineered materials and component manufacturing, to the firm’s Strategic Advisory Board (SAB).Aiello served

Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington Capital), a Washington DC-based private equity firm, is to sell Centauri to KBR for USD827 million. Centauri is an independent provider of space, directed energy, and other advanced technology solutions to the United States Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. Centauri is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia with

Venture capital firm Advent Life Sciences has sold its portfolio company, KaNDy Therapeutics (KaNDy), to Bayer AG for an upfront consideration of USD425 million plus potential milestone payments of up to USD 450 million until launch followed by potential additional triple digit million sales milestones payments.KaNDy recently completed the Phase

Astorg is to sell Surfaces Group (Surfaces) to TA Associates. Headquartered in Cenate Sotto, Italy, Surfaces Group is the world leading supplier of abrasive tools and consumables used in the manufacturing process of high-end materials.The Group’s products are used to smoothen, cut and polish high-end ceramic tiles, stone slabs, glass

Western NIS Enterprise Fund has reached an agreement to sell, alongside other shareholders, its stake in Moldova-based Glass Container Company and Glass Container Prim (GCC) to Vetropack Austria Holding AG, a subsidiary of Vetropack Holding SA.Vetropack is a leading Swiss player in the European glass packaging industry with 2019 annual

Private equity fund manager capital D has announced a partial exit from its investment in Invincible Brands.Henkel, one of the world’s leading FMCG companies, has acquired a 75 per cent majority stake in a business of Invincible Brands, comprising the three D2C brands Hello Body, Banana Beauty and Mermaid+Me. capital

Gen Cap America (Gen Cap), a private equity firm focused on lower middle market buyouts, has sold Aero Systems Engineering (ASE) to Calspan Technology Holding Corporation (Calspan) headquartered in Buffalo, New York. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Based in St Paul, Minnesota, ASE is a leading provider of

Council Capital, a healthcare-focused private equity firm based in Nashville, and co-investor DW Healthcare Partners, a Toronto-based healthcare-focused private equity firm, have sold their stakes in Caregiver to WindRose Health Investors (WindRose), while retaining a small equity ownership. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.     Caregiver, headquartered

Growth Capital Partners (GCP), a UK SME private equity firm that specialises in partnering with owner-managers, has realised its investment in The DMW Group (DMW), a leading independent technology consultancy. DMW is being acquired by Credera, a subsidiary of Omnicom Group.   GCP invested in DMW in October 2017 alongside the