Monroe Capital has provided funding of a USD15 million senior credit facility to Applied Merchant Systems West Coast, Inc. Monroe Capital’s loan facility was used to refinance existing debt, repurchase common stock, and provide ongoing working capital. Monroe Capital also provided a committed acquisition facility to the company as part

River Associates Investments has sold its interest in Coining Holding Company to AMETEK for USD148 million, in a transaction that generated a gross internal rate of return of 76% and over six-times its original investment. Headquartered in Montvale, NJ, with facilities in Malaysia and Morocco, Coining is the global manufacturing

Berkshire Partners LLC, the Boston based private equity firm, and OMERS Private Equity Inc., the private equity arm of the OMERS Worldwide group of companies, have signed a definitive agreement to jointly acquire Husky International Ltd and its subsidiaries (Husky) from Onex Corporation and its affiliated funds. Headquartered in Bolton,

Access Industries is to acquire Warner Music Group (WMG) in an all-cash transaction that values WMG at USD3.3bn. The purchase includes WMG’s entire recorded music and music publishing businesses. The purchase price of USD8.25 per share represents a 34.4% premium over the volume-weighted average share price of USD6.14 over the

Mid-market private equity firm Palamon Capital Partners (Palamon) has invested in the German medical services business OberScharrer Group. Details of the transaction have not been disclosed.   Headquartered in Fürth, Germany, the OberScharrer Group was founded in 1982 by Dr ManuelOber and Dr Armin Scharrer, and operates seventeen sites across Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg. The

Phoenix Equity Partners is opening a new office in Manchester. This will be Phoenix’s third UK office. The office will be headed up by John Rastrick, a partner at Phoenix, who is based in the region and leads Phoenix’s regional deal generation, business development and investment activities in the North.

Equidity Inc, a new platform designed to help institutional investors hook up with pre-IPO and newly public companies, is planning to hold its inaugural investor forum in November. Equidity, which was founded by CEO Mona DeFrawi (pictured), former CEO of Menlo Park, California-based InsideVenture, uses a proprietary technology platform to

First Reserve Corporation has closed its latest fund, the First Reserve Energy Infrastructure Fund, at over USD1.2bn. The closing of follows the successful close of its most recent buyout fund, First Reserve Fund XII, in 2009 at approximately USD9 billion. First Reserve has invested exclusively in the energy and natural

Aureos Capital Limited’s Emerge Central America Growth Fund (EMERGE) has provided Mayaland Villas Inc, owner of Ka’ana Boutique Resort in Belize (pictured), with a facility to expand its operations. Aureos is a leading private equity fund management company specialising in investing in small and medium sized businesses in emerging markets.