Alternative asset manager, Duet Group has made a significant investment into Dashen Brewery Plc. The investment will take the form of an equity injection from the newly formed Duet Beverages Africa Ltd, which will be managed by the Duet Africa Private Equity team, together with Vasari as the industrial partner.
Hogan Lovells has advised long-standing client UnitedHealth Group (UHG) on the acquisition of medical services outsourcing specialist FrontierMEDEX from private equity house MML Capital Partners and the senior management of FrontierMEDEX for an undisclosed sum in a transaction that closed on 22nd December 2011. UHG is a leading health care
Jazz FM, Neopolitan Music and The Ingenious Entertainment VCTs has completed a GBP2 million investment into the UK’s first three day, outdoor, camping jazz festival, Love Supreme Jazz Festival, to take place in Brighton in the summer of 2013. Launched this month, the Love Supreme Jazz Festival is set to
Venture capitalists put EUR4.4 billion into 1,012 deals for European companies in 2011, a 14% decline in investment and 19% decline in deal flow from 2010, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. This marks the lowest annual deal count for Europe since VentureSource began tracking the region in 2000. The fourth
MMC Ventures has led an GBP850,000 investment round in home-swapping website Love Home Swap. Love Home Swap (www.LoveHomeSwap.com) is an international holiday home exchange website founded by UK serial entrepreneur Debbie Wosskow. Love Home Swap launched in October 2011 to provide members with the opportunity to swap their homes for stylish
Saugatuck Capital Company has made an investment in Tulip Molded Plastics Corporation. Saugatuck teamed with management to acquire the assets of the Molded Products Division from Tulip Corporation in a leveraged buyout. Saugatuck provided equity capital through its investment vehicle Saugatuck Capital Company VII LLC which, along with management, owns
HelloWallet, a provider of personalised financial guidance, has secured USD12 million in Series B funding. Chicago-based Morningstar invested USD6.75 million and DC-based TD Fund (TDF) invested USD4 million. Existing investors and new investors also participated in the round. Morningstar is a leading provider of investment research, reaching more than 20
Foreign companies acquired majority stakes in 131 Indian companies during 2011, registering a 30% rise in such transactions as compared to the previous year, according to a study by Venture Intelligence, a research service focused on Private Equity and M&A transaction activity in India. Of these Inbounds deals, there were
Rutland Partners, the specialist turnaround and restructuring investor, is selling Attends Healthcare Group to Domtar Corporation for an enterprise value of EUR180 million. The transaction is conditional only on customary regulatory clearances and is expected to complete in late February.

 Rutland acquired Attends, a European leader in branded and own label incontinence
Carey Olsen and Heritage International Fund Managers Limited (HIFM) have acted for Better Capital Limited, an existing Guernsey closed-ended fund listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), on its conversion into a protected cell company (PCC) with the interests of the existing listed fund forming the 2009 cell, and the
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