Resilience Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has acquired Indiana Limestone.  This transaction is the second acquisition under Resilience’s industrial minerals platform, North Coast Minerals.  Indiana Limestone is a complementary business to Victor Oolitic Stone, which was acquired by Resilience in November 2009.  Like Victor Oolitic, Indiana Limestone has been

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has partnered with management to complete the acquisition of Revenew International from Profit Technologies.  Revenew, based in Houston, Texas, is a cost recovery solutions firm which offers contract compliance, supplier payment review and process auditing.  The company serves a blue-chip

Canadian venture capital activity increased 20 per cent in the third quarter, according to data Thomson Reuters compiled for the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. The total investment for the latest third quarter totalled CAD261m (USD258m). “With two consecutive quarters of growth, Canadian VC activity in 2010 continues

Atlas Holdings has acquired Detroit Thermal, the City of Detroit’s underground district energy steam system, a Detroit-based energy-from-waste facility that produces steam and electricity from municipal waste, and Hamtramck Energy Services, which operates the private industrial steam plants at several General Motors facilities in Michigan. The acquired assets will operate

Citi’s Global Transaction Services has introduced a portfolio of custody services in the US, specifically for private equity funds. Citi says its services are particularly timely because of Securities and Exchange Commission regulations affecting custody of customer assets by registered investment advisers and the recently enacted Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform

Google Ventures has entered the holiday home rentals market by investing in HomeAway, parent company of HomeAway Holiday-Rentals and Owners Direct in the UK. Google purchased shares from existing shareholders to invest in the company.   HomeAway operates sites in 11 European countries plus sites in the US and Brazil.

The Aureos Africa Fund has completed a USD10m investment in HFC Bank Ghana, a commercial and retail bank based in Ghana. The Aureos Africa Fund is managed by Aureos Capital, a private equity fund management company specialising in investing in small and medium sized businesses in emerging markets. This investment

Sciens Capital Management has held a final close for the Sciens Aviation Special Opportunities Fund, having raised a total of USD213m, primarily from institutional investors. The fund is managed by an affiliate of Apollo Aviation Group, a commercial aircraft investment and asset manager jointly owned by its founders William Hoffman

Centerbridge Capital Partners has formed CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries by closing on concurrent acquisitions of Rock Bottom Restaurants and Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant Group.  The companies will operate as subsidiaries of CraftWorks and will retain their brands.  The combined business will be an operator and franchisor of brewery and craft