Mid Europa Partners has completed the sale of Calucem’s operating assets to Argus Capital Partners. Calucem is a supplier of calcium aluminate cement. With production facilities based in Croatia and sales offices in Germany, the US and Singapore, the company supplies cement to the global refractory and building chemistry industries.
ZeniMax Media has closed a USD150m investment by private equity firm Providence Equity Partners in convertible preferred stock of the company. The proceeds will be used to fund additional growth through increased game development, expanded publishing operations, and strategic acquisitions. The new investment by Providence supplements an earlier investment of
Funds managed by Dutchess Capital have consummated USD210m in equity line facilities through the third quarter of 2010. The financing transactions were completed with publicly traded companies listed in the US, Canada, UK and Australia. Michael A. Novielli, Dutchess co-founder and managing partner, says: “We’ve been a market leader
UK private equity house Inflexion Private Equity has closed its new 2010 Buyout Fund which has raised a total of GBP375m. Carey Olsen’s corporate group in Guernsey advised Inflexion on the establishment and regulation of the fund, as a closed-end registered collective investment scheme in the form of a dual
IS Pharma, a pharmaceutical company, has raised GBP3.6m through the issue of 4,613,160 new ordinary shares at 77 pence per placing share with Abingworth. Following this placing, Abingworth will be IS Pharma’s largest shareholder with 13 per cent of the shares in issue. The placing price at 77 pence represents
Pfingsten Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm, has bought FKI Security Group, a manufacturer or fire security products based in Indiana, through its USD525m Fund IV. Founded in 1951, Fire King operates three distinct business segments serving a variety of end markets: Fire King International, Fire King Security Products, and
StepStone Group has acquired SilverBrook Private Equity. As part of the acquisition, Thomas Bradley, Mark Maruszewski, and Michael McCabe, the SilverBrook partners, will join StepStone as managing directors to be based in its New York City office. The addition of Bradley, Maruszewski and McCabe will grow StepStone’s leadership team, expand
SunEdison, a solar energy services provider and a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, has sold a 70 megawatt photovoltaic power plant located in Northeast Italy, near the town of Rovigo. When completed in the fourth quarter of 2010, the Rovigo plant is expected to be the largest operating solar power
Red Fort Capital has received GIREM’s 2010 Investor of the Year Leadership Award in recognition of its achievements in India’s private equity real estate sector. GIREM – Global Initiative for Restructuring Environment & Management – is an independent industry association focused on urban planning and real estate in India. Parry
Data from Experian shows the number of mergers and acquisitions and equity capital market deals fell during Q3 2010 for the UK and Europe, compared to Q3 2009. The total number of UK M&A and ECM transactions during Q3 2010 fell by 22.7 per cent compared to the same period
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