Middle-market private equity firm One Equity Partners is to sell East Balt Bakeries (East Balt), a global supplier of premium buns and artisanal rolls to major restaurant chains, to Grupo Bimbo for USD650 million. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2017, subject to customary closing

Cleary Gottlieb is assisting Alpha Private Equity in the disposal of a significant shareholding in Caffitaly, a company active in the manufacturing and marketing of coffee capsules and coffee machines, to Compagnie Nationale à Portefeuille (CNP), at the end of an auction procedure. The transaction, which was announced on 14

Activa Capital and Bpifrance have sold their stakes in Nexeya, a French group specialised in the design and manufacture of mission-critical electronic systems for major industrial companies primarily in the defence, aeronautics, space, energy, railway and automotive sectors.  After having substantially reinvested, Nexeya’s management now holds a majority stake in

3i Group (3i) has sold Mémora, an Iberian funeral services company, to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Ontario Teachers’) in a deal worth GBP117 million. This compares to a valuation of GBP86 million at 31 March 2017. Mémora was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Barcelona. It is a leading

Growth capital investor Beringea has exited its investment in APM Healthcare through the sale of business to national pharmacy chain, Day Lewis Pharmacy.  Day Lewis will take over APM Healthcare’s 18 UK pharmacies, which it runs in Joint Venture Partnerships with GP Practices across the country.   Trading under the

Investcorp has agreed the sale of Esmalglass to global private equity firm Lone Star Fund X for an enterprise value of EUR605 million. Established in 1978 in Villareal, Spain, Esmalglass is a producer of ceramic colours and glazes with total sales of circa EUR400m in 2016. Esmalglass supplies a wide

Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) on the sale of its portfolio company BTI Studios to Altor. Founded in 1995, BTI Studios is a global localisation company providing dubbing, subtitling, access services and media solutions across multiple languages to a diverse international

Foresight Group (Foresight) has successfully exited its investment in Blackstar Amplification Limited (Blackstar), a Northampton-based designer and manufacturer of innovative guitar amplifiers and effects pedals, following a management buyout. The transaction generated a circa 2x return for Foresight.   Foresight originally invested GBP3.5 million in 2012 to provide growth capital

Century Park Capital Partners has agreed to sell Cirtec Medical to 3i Group. Cirtec specialises in outsourced solutions for OEMs of active implantable medical devices, with a focus on neuromodulation, drug delivery, cardiac rhythm management, and minimally invasive surgical devices. Cirtec has the expertise to provide value-added solutions to its

KKR has sold Capsugel to Lonza for USD5.5 billion. As part of the sale, approximately USD35 million of proceeds were distributed to non-management level employees of the company, including all colleagues from the company’s thirteen manufacturing facilities around the world. All Capsugel employees globally participated in the distribution of proceeds