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Affiliate of Sun Capital agrees to sell Robertshaw

An affiliate of Sun Capital Partners is to sell Robertshaw Controls Company (Robertshaw), a global leader in thermal, flow, and control management products and solutions. Terms of the private transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, Robertshaw offers the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of products and solutions, which are

Audax Private Equity acquires Corsearch

Audax Private Equity (Audax) has agreed to acquire Corsearch, a division of Wolters Kluwer NV. Corsearch, headquartered in New York, NY, is a leading data-driven trademark and domain establishment and protection business. Corsearch has additional offices in Dallas, California, Brussels, London, Luxembourg, and Paris. Terms of the transaction were not

Aliter-backed Ipsum Group makes second bolt-on acquisition

Ipsum Group Limited (Ipsum) a utilities and infrastructure service provider backed by Aliter Capital (Aliter) has acquired Specialist Power Engineering Contracts Limited (SPEC), a Wakefield-based specialist High Voltage (HV) engineering business. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed.   Ipsum, which is headquartered in Preston, was backed by

Align Capital Partners invests in ISA Fire & Security

Align Capital Partners (ACP) has completed the majority recapitalisation of fire and life safety company International Systems of America (ISA) from Gen Cap America (Gen Cap). This was ACP’s fifth platform company investment since the firm’s first fund closed in September 2016.    Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, ISA is a

Swarm64 raises USD12.5m in Series B financing round led by Intel Capital

Swarm64, provider of the scalable data accelerator (SDA) which enables relational databases to perform real-time big data analytics, has secured USD12.5 million in a Series B funding round led by by Intel Capital and Investinor. Alliance Venture and Target Partners also participated in the round. “We are very glad to

Tractel acquires Scanclimber

Tractel, a specialist provider of working-at-heights and safety products and solutions, is to acquire Scanclimber Oy, the Finnish-headquartered provider of mast climbing work platforms (MCWP), for an undisclosed fee. Scanclimber supplies rack and pinion vertical access products to more than 250 clients, in Europe, North America and Asia. It has

MidOcean Partners acquires BH Cosmetics

MidOcean Partners (MidOcean), a premier middle market private equity firm focused on consumer and business services, has acquired BH Cosmetics (BH), a digitally native colour cosmetics brand.  MidOcean’s investment will be used to drive BH’s continued growth and expansion.  BH’s founders will retain a significant ownership stake in the Company.

LightBay Capital raises USD615m for debut private equity fund

LightBay Capital (LightBay), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm focused on middle-market opportunities, has successfully completed fundraising for its inaugural institutional fund, LightBay Investment Partners, with total committed capital of USD615 million.  The oversubscribed Fund, which LightBay officially began marketing in April 2017, exceeded its target of USD450 million with

Capidea Management holds first closing of Capidea Kapital III

Capidea Management has held the first closing of its third private equity fund, Capidea Kapital III K/S with commitments of DKK750 million from a group of new and existing Danish and international investors. The Fund has a target of DKK1 billion. Capidea was established in November 2006 with the objective

Dominic Wheatley, Guernsey Finance

Guernsey funds sector sees consecutive year-on-year growth

The total value of funds business in Guernsey grew by approximately GBP20 billion over the 12 months to the end of the third quarter of this year. Figures from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) show that, at the end of September 2017, the net asset value of all funds

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