Vespa Capital, a private equity company founded in 2008, has completed its first exit as with the sale of James Villa Holidays to Wyndham Exchange & Rentals. Established in 1984, James Villa Holidays is a villa tour operator in the UK. It offers accommodation in over 50 destinations across the

Glencoe Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm, has sold its Toronto-based artisan bakery business, ACE Bakery, to Weston Foods (Canada) for CAD110m. The ACE transaction was the fourth realisation of Glencoe Capital’s third private equity fund, Glencoe Capital Partners III, which has invested in a variety of sectors ranging from

Quarterly data published by Silverfleet Capital, a European private equity firm that specialises in buy and build, suggests the number of buy and build transactions completed by private equity backed companies across Europe during first three quarters of 2010 was up almost one third (32 per cent) on the same

Arsenal Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, has acquired Royal Adhesives & Sealants from Quad-C Management. Headquartered in South Bend, Indiana, Royal offers a range of products designed to solve complex bonding, laminating and sealing applications across a range of markets including aerospace and defence, construction, specialty packaging,

HarbourVest Global Private Equity, a closed-end investment company listed on Euronext Amsterdam and the Specialist Fund Market of the London Stock Exchange, has reported an estimated economic net asset value of USD776.1m or USD9.35 per share as of 31 October, a 3.5 per cent increase from the 31 July economic

Cenveo, a manager and distributor of print products and solutions, has acquired Impaxx, the sole owner of Gilbreth Packaging Solutions, from affiliates of Aurora Capital Group, a Los Angeles private equity firm.  Gilbreth operates a facility in Pennsylvania and has approximately 75 employees. It uses multiple printing technologies as a

Harvest Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, has completed the acquisition of Bartlett Holdings, d.b.a. BHI Energy, from Berkshire Partners and Summit Partners. BHI Energy is an energy services company which supports the daily operations, routine maintenance and capital investment requirements of nuclear, fossil and renewable power facilities, as

Audley Capital, as investment adviser to the activist Audley European Opportunities Fund, has increased its holding of shares in AIM-listed Sable Mining Africa, a resource company focused on mining assets in sub-Saharan Africa. Audley’s move, which takes its holding in Sable Mining to some 4.1 per cent or 38,280,000 shares,

Citadel Capital, a private equity firm in the Middle East and Africa, has reported a 7.1 per cent rise in total assets under management to USD4.0bn (EGP23bn) for the third quarter of 2010 as it recognised USD265.4m in new equity raised year-to-date. Third-party fee-earning AUM rose 6.0 per cent to