Private equity funds managed by Blackstone have agreed to sell GCA Services Group (GCA) to a consortium of the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs and Thomas H Lee Partners. GCA is a provider of janitorial/custodial and facility management services to over 930 customers, including ~20 per cent of the

The specialist securitisation team of leading Scottish law firm, Shepherd and Wedderburn, has acted alongside Allen & Overy in advising the debt funders Cerberus Capital Management’s acquisition ofNorthern Rock’s GBP13 billion asset portfolio – the largest ever financial asset sale by a European government.  Shepherd and Wedderburn advised the arrangers

Atlas Holdings has sold portfolio company Pangborn Group, a designer, manufacturer and supplier of innovative surface preparation equipment and related aftermarket parts and services, to United Generations. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Atlas acquired Pangborn in June of 2006. Headquartered in Fairburn, Georgia, the company employs over 250 people

Avedon has sold German high precision miniature ball bearing company GRW Bearing (GRW) to US-based Kaman Corporation (NYSE:KAMN), with the deal expected to close by the end of November. GRW specialises in the design and manufacturing of custom engineered high precision miniature ball bearing solutions. GRW has a comprehensive product

EQT Infrastructure is to sell Koole Terminals to institutional investors advised by JP Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets. The agreement is subject to the positive advice of the Company’s works council. EQT Infrastructure acquired Koole Tanktransport in February 2011, followed by the acquisition of NOVA Terminals in October

Polaris Private Equity (Polaris) has sold its holding, equivalent to 75 per cent of all shares, in Skånska Byggvaror to Byggmax, for SEK741 million. In addition to the initial purchase price, an additional payment of SEK110 million may also be made depending on the financial performance for Skånska Byggvaror during

Ambienta has sold its portfolio company Envirogen Group, formerly Amplio Filtration Group (Envirogen), to a syndicate of investors led by UK fund manager Promethean Investments.   Envirogen Group, established in 2009 by Riccardo Segat and Andrea Davi – who acted as CEO – is a UK based mid-sized international provider

Mooreland Partners acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Viewfinity on its sale to CyberArk. Based in Massachusetts with R&D operations in Israel, Viewfinity provides privilege management and application control software. Through automated, policy-based monitoring, elevation, threat detection, and incident remediation, Viewfinity aims to eliminate the bottlenecks of operating without

Middle marker private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has sold Wolverine Advanced Materials  to ITT Corporation for approximately USD300 million. Wynnchurch generated a return of approximately 4.0x multiple of invested capital on its investment in Wolverine. Headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, Wolverine is a global leader in developing and manufacturing proprietary products