Santa Rosa, California-based Praxis Capital LLC has acquired the 136-unit Elm Grove Apartments in the master planned community of Kingwood, Texas, a class A suburb of Houston.  This stabilised, yet high potential complex, is the second Texas acquisition targeted and acquired by Praxis Capital in the last ten weeks.  

Impetus Capital is investing in Audience Entertainment, the New York-based developer of a proprietary interactive platform that provides innovative marketing and advertising experiences. Co-owned by industry leader YDreams, the Company employs pioneering digital technology which enables audience participation in "Kinect" games sponsored by major advertisers in a mass consumer setting.

Clearspring Technologies, Inc, provider of the largest social content sharing platform AddThis, has closed a USD20M series D round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), alongside Clearspring’s existing investors. IVP has funded some of the fastest-growing, data-driven online companies including Twitter and Zynga.   This investment comes amid

Harris Williams & Co has advised Cogent Healthcare, Inc over its merger with Hospitalists Management Group, LLC (HMG), a portfolio company of AEA Investors LP (AEA). The transaction closed on May 4, 2011.   The transaction was executed by Turner Bredrup, Cheairs Porter, Andy Dixon, and Dusty Lieb from the

A return of the sellers’ market, and increased deal flow – these are among the headline findings of the CMS European M&A Study 2011 launched today. The study analyses exclusive data compiled from more than 1,000 of its own M&A deals since 2007, including some 300 deals in 2010 alone.

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