Norwest Equity Partners (NEP) has completed the sale of Gopher Resource (Gopher) to Energy Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in North America’s energy infrastructure. The transaction, initially announced on 30 January, 2018, officially closed on 6 March 2018. Financial terms have not been disclosed.   Founded

Private equity firm Gridiron Capital (Gridiron Capital) has sold Engage2Excel (E2E), a provider of employee recognition, sales incentives, talent acquisition and consumer loyalty solutions and services. Headquartered in Statesville, North Carolina, E2E’s solutions focus on attracting, retaining, and engaging both employees and customers to increase productivity and profitability. E2E maintains

Capzanine is selling its stake in Oui Care as part of a Sponsorless transaction arranged by the group’s founder, Guillaume Richard. The origins of the Oui Care group date back to 1996 in Lille. It is now France’s market leader in personal and household services, providing house cleaning, childcare, adult

Nova Capital Management (Nova) is to sell its portfolio company, Ashland Hardware (Ashland), to Tyman plc for a price of USD101 million. Nova acquired Ashland as part of a portfolio acquisition of five businesses from Newell Rubbermaid (now Newell Brands) in September 2013. Profits at Ashland have more than doubled under

Drake Star Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to American Management Association International (AMA) in its divestiture of the trade book assets of AMACOM to HarperCollins Publishers. HarperCollins will take over all front list and backlist publication, sales, distribution, and licensing of the more than 600 books in AMACOM’s

NorthEdge Capital (NorthEdge) has completed the sale of Jigsaw24, a leading provider of IT solutions to the corporate, creative and education sectors, to private equity firm Alcuin Capital Partners. Based in Nottingham, Jigsaw24 is a B2B reseller, integrator and managed service provider of Apple technology, Adobe and Avid software.  

Private equity house Endless has sold two of the remaining four divisions of its Brabant Alucast International (BAI) investment to NASDAQ-listed business, Shiloh Indistries Inc for EUR52.9 million. This follows the earlier sale by Endless of the BAI business in the Czech Republic in late 2016 to an MBO team.  BAI

Foresight Group (Foresight) has sold its investment in ICA Digital (ICA), realising a 2.4x return, through a trade sale to ASL Group. Foresight originally invested GBP2 million to fund the management buyout of ICA Digital, a managed print services business based in Horley, UK. During the course of the investment,

Oakley Capital Private Equity II is to sell its 38.5 per cent stake in Parship Elite Group (PEG) and 9.9 per cent stake in Verivox to NuCom Group (NuCom), ProSiebenSat.1’s Commerce unit. The agreement is subject to approval by the responsible antitrust authorities. The Company will realise estimated cash proceeds

Private equity investor Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone) has agreed to sell a majority shareholding in the Plettenberg-based automobile supplier E Winkemann to Cathay Capital MidCap Fund, advised by Cathay Capital Private Equity. Equistone and E Winkemann’s management remain invested in the company. The financial terms of the deal have not