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Ropes & Gray Represents Ambridge Hospitality in merger with Interstate Hotels & Resorts

Ropes & Gray has represented Dallas-based Ambridge Hospitality, an independent hotel management firm and a portfolio company of Advent International, in its entry into a definitive merger agreement with Interstate Hotels & Resorts, a leading independent multinational hotel operator.  The combined company will create a global leader in third-party hotel

O’Melveny represents Honeywell in strategic investment in Theatro

O’Melveny has represented Honeywell International Inc in its equity investment in Theatro Labs, an in-store, mobile workforce communication and management solutions company. Texas-based Theatro brings IoT, AI and workforce-optimised apps together in a “hardware-enabled” SaaS offering to provide companies in gaming, hospitality, retail, and manufacturing mobile solutions for hourly employees.

HGGC hires 12 and promotes four

HGGC, a middle market private equity firm, is making four promotions and expanding its team with twelve new hires across the operations and investment functions.  These additions – all of whom come to HGGC from blue-chip financial and business brands – will help ensure that HGGC has the talent and

HeleCloud acquires open source specialist OlinData

HeleCloud, an AWS Advanced Consulting and Managed Services Partner, has acquired OlinData, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner based in the Netherlands, specialised in Open Source Infrastructure.  Financial details of the deal, which completed this week, have not been disclosed. OlinData is HeleCloud’s first acquisition as part of its ongoing growth

Aurelius acquires Belgian building materials merchants YouBuild & MPRO from Grafton

Aurelius Equity Opportunities (Aurelius) is to acquire the Belgium-based MPRO and YouBuild building materials merchants from Grafton Group (Grafton).  The combined business of MPRO and YouBuild achieves revenues of close to EUR100 million across its network of 16 outlets employing circa 240 full-time employees. The transaction is expected to complete

L&G invests GBP57m in UK solar portfolios

Legal & General has provided GBP57.5 million of long-term debt financing to support Hermes Infrastructure in its recapitalisation of two solar photovoltaic (solar PV) portfolios in England and Wales.  The two portfolios consist of fully operational solar PV systems installed on the roofs of more than 9,000 residential homes. The

GCP appoints origination director

Growth Capital Partners (GCP), a partnership-focused investor, has appointed Michael Gray as Origination Director.  Gray joins GCP from A&M Capital where he was Head of Origination. With 12 year’s private equity experience, Gray previously spent four years as Head of Sponsor Coverage at Grant Thornton, responsible for providing deal flow,

ClearCourse acquires cloud-based CRM software provider BrightOffice

ClearCourse Partnership has acquired BrightOffice, a software-as-service (SaaS) company providing hosted, enterprise Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software solutions to many different business sectors.  BrightOffice is ClearCourse’s 14th acquisition since October 2018 and an expansion of its business services offering.   BrightOffice was founded in 2004. Since then, it has developed

Altas Partners to acquire DuBois Chemicals

Investment firm Altas Partners (Altas) is to acquire DuBois Chemicals (DuBois), a specialty chemical supplier, from The Jordan Company (TJC). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. DuBois is a premier provider of customised and value-added specialty chemicals solutions and services to a global customer base. The Company

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