Peak Ridge Capital’s AgTech Fund has invested in Xolve, a nanotechnology company whose technology allows for the breakdown of nanomaterials while mitigating the two most critical concerns – cost and performance. Peak Ridge was one of four investors involved in the round of financing for Xolve which will allow the

GCP Capital Partners LLC has completed a USD23 million investment in ClearView Risk Holdings, whose principal subsidiary is dallas-based wholesale insurance broker Southwest Risk. Southwest Risk, which specialises in certain property and casualty coverages  – including real estate and construction risks – will change its name to ClearView Risk with

The Riverstone/Carlyle Global Energy and Power Funds, a group of energy-focused private equity funds managed by Riverstone Holdings, has completed the acquisition of USA Compression, a natural gas compression services company headquartered in Austin and Dallas, Texas. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1998, USA Compression

Private equity firm Advent International has sold the value fashion chain Takko to Apax Partners. The transaction, which is subject to approval by the antitrust authorities, is expected to be finalised in the first quarter 2011. Since acquiring Takko in 2007, Advent International has supported the company’s management in its

VTB Capital Private Equity and Special Situations has closed the acquisition of a USD30m minority stake in Brunswick Rail, the Russian freight car leasing company.  To date, VTB Capital Private Equity and Special Situations has invested over USD500m in a number of Russian companies in joint projects with international private

Aurora Russia had a net asset value of GBP93.2m, or 82.9p per share, as at 30 September 2010. Cash and cash equivalents as at 30 September 2010 were GBP4.25m.   Records management company OSG expanded with an Armenian operation and added additional racking in its main Moscow facility in Lobnya.

Capital Growth Advisors has completed the sale of Washington DC based Cafe Deluxe and Tortilla Coast by its founders, Bo Marcus and John Breen, to Maryland based Clover Investment Group.  CapGrow provided financial consulting services to the sellers in the transaction. Details were undisclosed. "Bo Marcus and John Breen created

The Sterling Group, a Houston-based private equity investment firm, has acquired an equity interest in Saxco International.  The acquisition was financed with equity from Sterling Group Partners III and debt financing from BNP Paribas and Oaktree Capital Management. Saxco, headquartered in Pennsylvania, is a distributor of rigid packaging products for