Kirkland & Ellis has advised FountainVest Partners as a member of an investor consortium in a voluntary public tender offer, for all the shares in Amer Sports Corporation, a Finnish sporting goods company with internationally recognised brands including Salomon, Arc’teryx, Peak Performance, Atomic, Mavic, Suunto, Wilson and Precor. The transaction
Ironwood Capital’s portfolio company Consulting Solutions International (CSI), an IT staffing and consulting business, has acquired JDC Group, an Atlanta-based IT staffing firm that provides services similar to CSI with a focus on supporting SAP software. Ironwood Capital Managing Director Alex Levental says: “Since our original investment in CSI in
Private equity firm HIG Capital (HIG) has sold its portfolio company, ACG Materials (ACG) to Arcosa, a manufacturer of infrastructure-related products and services, for approximately USD315 million. ACG, based in Norman, Oklahoma, mines, processes, and distributes industrial minerals and aggregates including gypsum, anhydrite, limestone, sand, gravel, basalt and downstream food,
Glennmont Partners has agreed to divest a portfolio of five onshore wind farms in north-eastern and western France, totalling installed capacity of 59.5MW, to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Falck Renewables, a listed company on the Italian stock exchange, in a EUR37 million deal. The five onshore windfarms, Bois Ballay (12.5MW),
DVI Equity Partners (DVI), along with VT Companies and DF Enterprises, has made an investment in Luminoso Technologies’ Series B round of financing. Luminoso’s software applies artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to derive insights from text-based and unstructured data such as contact centre interactions, chat-bot and live
Crestline Investors (Crestline), a credit-focussed institutional alternative asset manager, has closed Crestline Specialty Lending Fund II (SLF II) with over USD800 million in capital commitments. SLF II will follow the same strategy as its predecessor fund, Crestline Specialty Lending Fund I. Crestline Direct Lending provides flexible senior debt capital
Investor services firm SGG Group, which is backed by Astorg, has successfully completed its acquisition of Augentius having received teh relevant regulatory approvals. This acquisition reinforces SGG Group’s position as the fourth largest independent investor services firm and one of the top three independent administrators to the alternative investment community in the
Salveo Capital, an alternative investment firm specialising in the legalised cannabis space, has acquired a minority equity interest in Ascend Wellness (Ascend), a vertically integrated multi-state operator in the cannabis industry. Ascend is a Massachusetts-based cannabis company with developing licenses in Illinois and Michigan. Together, the three markets are comparable
Sagewind Capital (Sagewind), a New York-based private equity firm, and Berenson Holdings have led the acquisition of The Athene Group, a software and services company serving the wealth management industry. As part of the transaction, Insight Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures are participating as investors. Financial terms of the transaction
BDP International (BDP), a privately held global logistics and transportation services company, has partnered with New York-based private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Group (Greenbriar). Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, BDP International is a global industry leader in international logistics, transportation and supply chain solutions. BDP supports the unique supply chain needs
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