Ironwood Capital has made a subordinated debt investment to support Newbury Franklin Industrials’ acquisition of Metro Plastics Technologies and MoldTech. Newbury Franklin Industrials (NFI) is a value-added manufacturer and supplier of consumable industrial components for the North American maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) and general industrial markets. NFI comprises diversified

Beauty Industry Group (BIG), a specialist in hair solutions, has acquired BELLAMI Hair (BELLAMI), hair extensions and haircare brand. BIG will support BELLAMI as it advances its differentiated go-to-market strategy and grows its strong consumer following to build on its current momentum. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  

An affiliate of middle market private equity firm Gemspring Capital has acquired GoldenSource Corp (GoldenSource), a provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and Master Data Management (MDM) solutions to financial services companies worldwide.

Zenitech, a high-growth transformational technology provider and a portfolio company of UK private equity Buy & Build specialist Sovereign Capital Partners, is to acquire Autsoft, a Hungarian-based provider of software and technology development services, subject to Hungarian Government approval.

International web hosting business, Miss Group, has acquired Swedish web hosting business, Cloudnet. Headquartered in Stockholm, Cloudnet was established in 2010 and has grown to become Sweden’s largest managed hosting company specialising in the operating system Linux.    Cloudnet currently services c500 SME customers primarily located in Sweden. In the

Latham & Watkins has advised private equity fund manager Capital D on the sale of Qmee, a Reading, UK-based app survey platform and fraud prevention technology provider, to Kantar, a marketing data and analytics company. The transaction is expected to close in June 2022.   Qmee offers brands access to

Alternative asset manager Gresham House has made a £37.5 million investment in N Family Club (NFC), a nursery group operating 20 locations across the South East and Midlands. This is the first investment in the education sector made by its second flagship sustainability fund, the British Sustainable Infrastructure Fund II