Northern Digital Inc is to be acquired by strategic buyer Roper Industries, Inc (Roper, NYSE:ROP), with the transaction expected to close in the second quarter of 2011. Harris Williams & Co acted as an advisor to the company. The transaction is being led by Turner Bredrup, Todd Morris, Cheairs Porter,

Hogan Lovells has advised Stephen and Peter Bond and the Management Team on the sale of Bond Aviation Group to Inaer for EUR300 million. The deal closed on Thursday 28 April, 2011. In addition, Hogan Lovells acted on the rollover by the Bonds of some of their monies into the enlarged

Appalachian Midstream Partners (AMP), a natural gas gathering and transportation services company operating in the Marcellus Shale, has entered into an agreement has secured an equity commitment of up to USD176m from private equity firm Avista Capital Partners. Appalachian will use this equity commitment to develop and expand AMP’s initial

Palm Beach Capital has made an investment in Arriva Medical. This transaction is the second equity investment by Palm Beach Capital from Palm Beach Capital Fund III, L.P. Financial terms have not not been disclosed. Arriva Medical, based in Coral Springs, Florida, was formed in April 2009 by industry veterans

Bridgepoint and Eurazeo are to aquire Fonica with the ambition of making the company the leading residential real estate services company. Foncia has a network of more than 600 branches run by nearly 7,000 employees. It operates in France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium, and offers a complete range of services

The management board and the supervisory board of Deutsche Börse Aktiengesellschaft have made a joint statement recommending that the company’s shareholders accept the offer by Alpha Beta Netherlands Holding N.V under which they will receive one share of the Dutch holding for each share in Deutsche Börse. The Dutch holding

TA Associates, a leading growth private equity firm, today announced it has completed a minority investment in Tega Industries Ltd, a designer and producer of consumables for the mining industry. Terms of the investment have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Kolkata, India and founded in 1976, Tega offers a range

HCI Equity Partners (HCI) has been formed by the Managing Partners and investment team of Thayer | Hidden Creek Partners to assume the management of the funds and operations of Thayer | Hidden Creek Partners.  HCI was formed to better reflect the heritage of the team and strategy which originated

Funds advised by HIG European Capital Partners LLP and its debt affiliate Bayside Capital have acquired Silentnight, Ltd. the UK’s leading bed & mattress manufacturer. This is after Silentnight was forced to file for administration following unsuccessful negotiations with the Pension Protection Fund over the company’s unserviceable pension deficit. The

Harris Williams & Co has advised Idaho Pacific Holdings, Inc (IPH), a subsidiary of Otter Tail Corporation, on the company’s sale to to Novacap Industries III, LP (Novacap). The transaction closed on May 6, 2011. Harris Williams & Co. acted as the lead advisor to IPH.  The transaction was led