Mergers and acquisitions adviser Generational Equity has sold its client Imperial Packaging to Seaboard Folding Box Company, a platform company of private equity firm Charter Oak Equity. Imperial Packaging, based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, produces folding cartons, packers, tags and inserts, and headers utilising conventional offset and UV-curable inks
Audax Private Equity has completed the sale of Rough Country to private equity firm Gridiron Capital. Rough Country is a customer-focused provider of suspension lift kits to the off-road SUV and truck market. Rough Country also offers a full set of off-road products, including shocks, stabilisers, lights, fender
Hawksmoor Partners, the London-based specialist in structuring and project management solutions for asset managers and fast-growing companies, has established its first overseas presence in Estonia to work with new clients in the technology sector in the Baltic region and Finland. Founded in 2013, Hawksmoor Partners has specialised in the
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners has invested GBP1 million in ebb3, with the potential for an additional GBP0.5 million of follow-on funding. ebb3 is a technology services business operating in a niche part of the high performance computing market. It delivers data intensive 3D graphical applications to
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation, parent company of Peapack-Gladstone Bank, is to acquire New Jersey-based Murphy Capital Management (MCM). After up front transaction costs, the purchase will be immediately accretive to earnings. Doug Kennedy, president and chief executive officer of Peapack-Gladstone Bank, says: “We have found what we feel is
Private equity firm Irving Place Capital (IPC) has agreed to sell thermal technology company Chromalox to Spirax-Sarco Engineering, a UK-based company specialising in the control and efficient use of steam and other industrial fluids, for USD415 million in cash. Completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.
Bluebee, a provider of high-performance genomics analysis and storage solutions, and MediSapiens, a biomedical big data curation, management and interpretation company, have formed a partnership to provide customers with analytical solutions for next generation sequencing data. Sequencing technology is maturing and being optimised for performance, while becoming increasingly affordable.
Direct Healthcare Group (DHG) has completed its second bolt-on acquisition in 12 months after acquiring Kirton Healthcare, a UK manufacturer of specialist seating products, from NVM Private Equity. Based in Caerphilly, DHG specialises in the development of clinically effective solutions for harm-free patient care. With 190 employees and turnover
UK private equity investor LDC has exited its investment in international hosting group UK2 in a sale to The Hut Group (THG), one of the world’s largest online health and beauty retailers and brand owners. The transaction value has not been disclosed. LDC originally backed a management buyout
UK law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has acted for Safestay in its GBP18.4 million debt restructuring and refinancing with HSBC. The Shepherd and Wedderburn team also acted for the group in completing sale and leaseback transactions on Safestay’s hostels in Edinburgh and London’s Elephant & Castle. Those transactions raised
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