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Trilantic North America energy team forms Greenbelt Capital Partners

Growth-focused private equity firm Trilantic North America has spun out its energy team to form a new, independent firm called Greenbelt Capital Partners (Greenbelt). Greenbelt will formally launch on 1 January, 2022, and will be headquartered in Austin, Texas, while maintaining an additional presence in New York. The firm, named

Sentinel Capital Partners sells Fazoli’s to FAT brands in USD130m deal

Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising midmarket companies, has sold portfolio company Fazoli’s Group to strategic buyer FAT Brands for an enterprise value of USD130 million. Fazoli’s, which specialises in moderately priced Italian food favourites, including freshly prepared pasta, Submarinos sandwiches, and unlimited signature breadsticks,

Godspeed Capital invests in Varen Technologies

Godspeed Capital Management (Godspeed Capital), a lower middle-market Defence & Government services, solutions, and technology focused private equity firm, has made a strategic investment in Varen Technologies, a provider of cybersecurity, software, and intelligence solutions for the Defence and Intelligence Communities.  Financial terms of the transaction, which will see Varen

Kartesia supports CTS and Palatine with refinancing solution

Kartesia, a European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, has provided a financing solution to support mid-market private equity firm Palatine Private Equity (Palatine) and its portfolio company, Leicester-based Construction Testing Solutions (CTS).  The capital for this transaction was funded from Kartesia Senior Opportunities I (KSO

Sandberg Capital holds EUR130m final close of second fund

Slovak fund management company Sandberg Capital has closed its second private equity fund, Sandberg Investment Fund II, at its hard cap of EUR130 million.  Capital under management has increased by EUR 21 million from the fund’s first close in January 2021.  The new commitments come from new as well as

PSG acquires Traction Guest and Expands ShieldCo

PSG, a growth equity firm focused on partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies, in combination with ShieldCo, a PSG V portfolio company, has acquired Traction Guest, a provider of cloud-based visitor management and workforce security software. This marks ShieldCo’s second investment. In September 2021, the company invested in

Deal-making

Littlejohn & Co sells Kaman Distribution Group for USD1.3bn

An affiliate of Littlejohn & Co is to sell Kaman Distribution Group (KDG), a distributor of highly engineered products and provider of related services, to Motion Industries, Inc. (Motion), a subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company (NYSE: GPC), for USD1.3 billion in cash.

Integral Venture Partners invests in Walter BBQ

Integral Venture Partners (Integral) is to acquire a 50 per cent stake in Walter BBQ, a Serbian fast-casual restaurant chain. Integral manages institutional private equity and growth capital and is focused on investments in the countries of central and south-eastern Europe. Integral’s fund is backed by leading international institutional investors

HCI Equity Partners-backed AmerCareRoyal acquires Ross & Wallace Paper Products

AmerCareRoyal, supplier of disposable foodservice supplies, gloves and take-out packaging and a portfolio company of HCI Equity Partners (HCI), has acquired Ross & Wallace Paper Products (Ross & Wallace).  Financial terms of the deal, which is AmerCareRoyal’s seventh add-on acquisition since HCI’s initial investment, have not been disclosed. Greenberg Traurig

BV Investment Partners invests in intent data platform Intentsify

BV Investment Partners (BV), a middle-market private equity firm focused on the tech-enabled business services, software and IT services sectors, has made significant strategic investment in intent data software and solutions provider Intentsify to help accelerate growth and product innovation. Intentsify, co-founded by Marc Laplante, Mike Kelly, Ed Laplante and

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