Middle market private equity firm Genstar Capital has acquired MW Industries, Inc, a leading US manufacturer of highly engineered specialty springs and fasteners. MW Industries, Inc, headquartered in Logansport, Indiana is a leading provider of highly engineered springs, specialty fasteners and other precision components to more than 23,000 customers. Its 40,000+

At a time when private-equity firms are sitting on as much as USD500 billion waiting to be invested, some 74% of senior restructuring professionals expect that private equity-backed companies will face the same or higher default rates than will publicly-traded companies in the next 12 months, with 61% seeing higher

Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to General Atlantic LLC on the sale of NAVIGON AG to Garmin Ltd (NASDAQ: GRMN). NAVIGON AG is a leading global navigation company with subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and North America. NAVIGON products include high-quality personal navigation devices and top-selling navigation software

The Transfer Agent division for U.S. Bancorp Fund Services has announced its first quarter 2011 results from National Quality Review (NQR), including a Best-In-Class rating for NQR’s new Correspondence Composite rating.   “This new benchmark allows us to gauge how our correspondence group performs compared to the industry based solely

Specialist finance and advisory firm Trafalgar Capital Advisors (TCA) has signed a strategic relationship with leading Israeli financing boutique, Xpert Financial Group (Xpert). The strategic relationship allows TCA to expand its reach into the institutional investor market in Israel, as well as having access to a robust pool of companies

Out of approximately 400 European leveraged loan and high yield bond issuers backed by private equity sponsors in the Debtwire universe, 81 completed a debt restructuring between 2008 and 2010. These 81 issuers represented EUR 367bn of pre-restructured debt in Western Europe. While a large share of LBO restructurings returned

Olswang’s Private Equity group has advised Chamonix Private Equity LLP (Chamonix), on the sale by funds managed by Chamonix of Intellident Acquisition Company Holdings Limited (Intellident) to Library Solutions BV, a company within the Bibliotheca group and a portfolio company of One Equity Partners (a division of JPMorgan Chase &

Harris Williams & Co ha advised Packers Sanitation Services, Inc (PSSI), a portfolio company of Blue Point Capital Partners (Blue Point), on its sale to Harvest Partners. The transaction closed on June 13, 2011. Harris Williams & Co acted as the exclusive advisor to PSSI.  The transaction was led by

Larger deals are winning favour amongst private equity backed businesses according to an analysis of buy & build activity across Europe during the first quarter of 2011.   The study, to be published on, 13 June 2011, by Silverfleet Capital the European private equity house in conjunction with mergermarket, shows