Exaltare Capital Partners has held the successful closing of its initial private equity fund, Exaltare Capital Partners Fund I, at USD90 million. Limited partners include a range of sophisticated institutional investors, family offices and asset managers. Founded in 2012, Exaltare is focused on acquiring niche-leading, owner-operated lower middle market businesses.
Preservation Capital Partners (Preservation Capital), a financial services focused private equity firm, is to acquire a substantial stake in Ascent Underwriting (Ascent), a cyber and specialty lines MGA. Preservation Capital will provide significant growth capital to support Ascent’s growth ambitions through the development of new business lines and complementary products
Tikehau Capital AUM reached EUR12.6 billion as at 30 September 2017, a 13 per cent net increase compared to 30 June 2017 and a 26 per cent increase since 31 December 2016. The growth of EUR1.5 billion in AUM since 30 June 2017 was mainly driven by inflows of EUR0.6
Westpac Banking Corporation and Northill Capital have entered into an agreement regarding the sale of Hastings. Northill is an independent, privately held asset management business, established in London in 2010. Northill is a long-term investor in high quality, specialist asset management businesses, with extensive global operating experience. As at 30
Private equity firm High Street Capital has acquired a controlling interest in Open Range Beef, a niche provider of beef processing services, focused on serving the Certified Organic, grass-fed, antibiotic-free, toll processing and other niche markets. Open Range Beef focuses on food safety, employee safety, quality processes, humane animal handling
Caseking, a European online-retailer and distributor of gaming and PC accessories backed by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), has acquired Trigono, a B2B software and hardware distributor, from financial holding company Bratt International. The acquisition strengthens Caseking Group’s position in the Scandinavian market, while the Caseking product range will open up
Audax Private Equity has acquired Ecolab’s Equipment Care business from Ecolab Inc, a provider of commercial kitchen repair, maintenance services, and parts to the US commercial food service industry. Equipment Care services 40,000 locations across 25 states with 500 technicians and 400 subcontractors and distributes 25K SKUs of OEM and
Wynnchurch Capital has completed an investment in America II Group, an electronic component distributor, supplying a broad array of products for use in higher value-add applications across diversified end-markets including industrial controls and sensors, medical devices, data networks, internet-connected products and material handling/transportation equipment. The Company was founded in 1989
Bedell Cristin has advised Leonard Green & Partners (LGP), a US private equity investment firm, on its acquisition of intellectual property management and technology group, CPA Global.

 CPA Global was founded in Jersey in 1969 and has grown to become a major international organisation, servicing customers’ needs in 200 jurisdictions.
Funds managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) are to acquire a majority stake in SunSource Holdings, a distributor of hydraulic and pneumatic fluid power products in the US and Canada. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. SunSource serves a diverse customer base which includes more than 20,000
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