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.

Monument Capital Partners (MCP), an Indianapolis-based private equity fund, along with partners John Campbell and Joe Mansfield have completed the sale of Separators, Inc to a strategic buyer.   Located in Indianapolis and founded in 1985, Separators, Inc., specializes in servicing and remanufacturing industrial centrifuge equipment used in various industries

JD Byrider, the Indianapolis-based leading used car sales and finance business, has been acquired by private equity firm Altamont Capital Partners (Altamont). With a long-term investment horizon, Altamont will provide strategic direction, experienced resources and additional capital to support the company’s growth and franchisee expansion initiatives. The acquisition of JD

A joint venture formed by Cerberus Capital Management and Chatham Lodging Trust has been selected as the winning bidder in the bankruptcy court auction related to 64 Innkeepers USA Trust hotels. Under the terms of the winning bid, the newly-formed joint venture agreed to purchase the hotels for a total