Royalton Capital Investors II, a private equity fund focused on making investments in Central and Eastern Europe, has acquired a 100% stake in Litcargus UAB, Lithuania’s leading ground handling company, from Cerberus Holdings Ltd. The acquisition of Litcargus marks Royalton’s first investment in Lithuania and second in the Baltic States.

Private equity firm Olympus Partners has sold K-Mac Holdings Corp, the third largest Taco Bell franchisee in the country, operating 167 Taco Bells, mainly in the Southwest. It also owns KFC and Golden Corral restaurants, which together with the Taco Bell stores total 190 premises.   Olympus and management acquired

Beringea, manager of the ProVen VCTs, has announced it has provided a GBP2.65 million investment package to software company MatsSoft. This expansion capital funding will come from ProVen VCT and ProVen Growth & Income VCT. MatsSoft is a software company providing powerful and innovative web-based workflow and communications solutions. The

Over USD814bn of leveraged buyout (LBO) debt, spread over 6,055 deals held by private equity portfolio companies globally, is due to mature over the next six years with over USD80bn (across 752 deals) due for refinancing this year alone. A peak of almost USD200bn is expected in 2014, according to a new report

Carey Olsen has advised Close Brothers Group plc on the sale of its trust, fund administration, asset management and banking businesses in Jersey and Guernsey to Kleinwort Benson for GBP29.1 million.   The deal between two of the largest administration groups in the Channel Islands is the largest sale across

Jumpstart Capital Partners, LLC, an investment company based in Los Angeles, California, has launched Jumpstart Equity Partners, a new investment and asset management platform established to capitalise on liquidity constraints in international real estate markets. Institutional and individual investors will gain exclusive access to pre-qualified real estate investment opportunities outside

Connecticut-based alternative investment and asset management company Five Mile has signed a definitive merger contract and other agreements to acquire the Chicago-based Prime Group Realty Trust. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2011. In a prepared statement, the parties say Five Mile will acquire the

European venture capital firm DFJ Esprit has announced the sale of TLC, supplier of Customer Relationship Management, call centre and telemarketing solutions – ts fourth exit so far in 2011.   This success follows the sales of Lovefilm, and The Cloud earlier this year, continuing a series of seven exits

Advantage Capital Partners in partnership with Ironwood Capital have provided financing to three promising young companies located in Connecticut. Each of the companies has received a pre-seed investment of USD150,000. The funding provides these pre-seed companies with working and growth capital, offering each company the ability to fast track their