Clairvue Capital Partners has completed investing Clairvue Capital Partners Fund I, a USD200 million fund launched in April, 2010. According to Jeff Giller, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer: “The preponderance of Clairvue I’s capital was invested in real estate vehicle recapitalisations where the proceeds advanced by Clairvue were used

Affiliates of GS Capital Partners and P2 Capital Partners, LLC (are to acquire Interline Brands for USD25.50 per share in cash. The transaction, which has been unanimously approved by Interline’s board of directors, is valued at approximately USD1.1 billion, including the assumption of debt. The price of USD25.50 per share

Exosun, a company specialising the design, construction and maintenance of ground solar power plants equipped with trackers, has completed a second fundraising operation worth EUR12 million intended to support its growth and strengthen its financial structure. Omnes Capital (formerly Crédit Agricole Private Equity), which owns a stake in Exosun since

NXT Capital has increased its total debt financing capacity to USD1.6 billion and expanded its senior secured revolving credit facility from USD650 million to USD740 million. Agented by Wells Fargo Bank, NA and affiliates, this facility provides funding for NXT’s middle-market senior secured commercial loan portfolio. The increase in size

Teralys Capital has made an investment of CAD65 million in TVM Life Science Ventures VII ("TVM LSV VII" or the "Fund"), which closed on an initial size of CAD150 million. The Fund will focus primarily on early stage drug development and life sciences company opportunities. The investment by Teralys Capital,

Phoenix Equity Partners, a UK middle-market private equity firm, has invested in CloserStill, a business-to-business exhibition organiser, in a transaction which values the business at circa GBP25 million. This is the sixth investment from Phoenix’s GBP450 million fund, which was raised in 2010, and is a partial exit for NVM

Cell Therapeutics has entered into an agreement to sell, subject to customary closing conditions, USD40 million of shares of its Series 15 Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase shares of its common stock (and the shares of common stock issuable from time to time upon conversion of the Series

Investec Growth & Acquisition Finance (GAF), part of Investec Specialist Bank, has provided LDC with a debt financing package to support the management buy-out of Ocean Outdoor (Ocean) from Smedvig Capital.   Ocean operates 28 sites across the UK and is a leading operator of digital ‘out of home’ advertising

Pan-African equity specialist Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) has invested in Nairobi Java House, a leading Kenyan café and casual dining restaurant operator. The deal marks the first private equity deal in the restaurant sector in East Africa, and ECP’s second investment in the East Africa region from its latest fund,