Water Street Healthcare Partners has sold its outsourced pharmaceutical services company AAIPharma Services to Cambridge Major Laboratories. AAIPharma and CML have merged to form a provider of integrated chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) services. The transaction marks Water Street’s fourth strategic transaction in the past three weeks. Water Street
Options is expanding its partnership with Redline Trading Solutions, a provider of low-latency market data and order execution solutions, to offer a fully managed ticker plant for options and equities. The Options-Redline collaboration enables trading firms to access a complete and fully resilient set of exchange-traded equities, options, futures and
UK-based private equity firm Lonsdale Capital Partners has acquired a majority interest in Oteac Limited, the firm’s third deal in the last 12 months. Oteac is a provider of integrated fire and safety services, both offshore in the oil and gas sector and onshore in the UK. The tougher
Fidelity Institutional has launched a new solution for accessing alternative investments. Fidelity’s platform will provide research, education and third-party due diligence, as well as access to a wide range of alternative investment products for all Fidelity Institutional clients. Financial advisors and family office professionals will now have access to
Almost half of M&A executives in Europe expect a rise in transactions over the coming year, with the German-speaking countries remaining the driver of the market. That is the conclusion of the M&A Outlook study, for which international commercial law firm CMS surveyed 225 representatives of companies, private equity houses
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is to acquire John Deere Landscapes (JDL), a unit of Deere & Company's agriculture and turf segment. Deere will initially retain a 40 per cent ownership stake in the new standalone company. The carve-out transaction is valued at approximately USD465m. With over USD1bn in
KKR has invested in wireless infrastructure businesses managed by Associated Partners. Under the agreements, KKR has made minority investments in PEG Bandwidth, AP Wireless and AP Towers. PEG Bandwidth designs, builds and operates Ethernet backhaul networks connecting wireless communications towers to the data fibre backbone, principally in rural geographies.
Mid-market private equity activity in the US improved in the third quarter, according to a report issued by BMO Harris Bank. Deal activity picked up, particularly in healthcare and software sectors, buoyed by debt markets that are clearly open for business. "It was a good quarter, punctuated by a
Cinven portfolio comapany Host Europe Group has acquired domainfactory for an undisclosed consideration. domainfactory currently manages 1.1 million domains and serves approximately 173,000 customers – mostly in the small and medium enterprises and private professional market segments. This transaction follows the recent acquisition by Host Europe Group of Telefónica
European venture capital fundraising declined from 2Q 2013 and 3Q 2012 both in the number of funds and amount raised, according to DJX VentureSource’s latest Europe venture capital report. Venture capital investment into European companies experienced a quarter over quarter decline. Business and financial services and energy and utilities
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