New York-based private equity fund Monomoy Capital Partners II is to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Cobra Electronics, a designer and marketer of mobile communications and navigation products, at USD4.30 per share in cash. Under the terms of the agreement, an affiliate of Monomoy will
Lower middle-market private equity from Superior Street Partners has acquired Riverbend Nursery. Union First Market Bank provided the senior debt financing for the transaction, in addition to providing continuing working capital support. Based in Virginia, Riverbend Nursery is a producer and distributer of perennial plants, herbs, and ground
KKR and Borealis Maritime has acquired a portfolio of nine feeder container vessels in a sale process coordinated by Commerzbank. The vessels were previously owned by a number of German KG funds and were originally financed by Commerzbank. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. In 2013, KKR
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has closed a collateralised loan obligation (CLO) fund in the US totalling approximately USD816 million. The CLO, arranged by Citigroup, is the firm’s third of 2014 in the US. Carlyle GMS CLO 2014-3 will invest predominantly in senior secured bank loans. Including
Cressey & Company and Level Equity Management have sold Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP) to Roper Industries, a diversified technology company. SHP, headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, is a provider of software and informatics solutions to the post-acute healthcare market. SHP delivers data-driven insight to thousands of post-acute organisations, such as home
ARCH Venture Partners’s eighth venture fund has closed with more than USD400 million in subscriptions. ARCH Venture Fund VIII exceeded its USD250 million subscription target by more than USD150 million. "The enthusiasm behind Fund VIII shows the strength and potential of our approach to finding and funding new platform
Chiquita Brands International and Fyffes have updated the anticipated annualised pre-tax cost synergies for the proposed combination of the two businesses. Chiquita and Fyffes have identified an additional USD20 million of synergies for a total of at least USD60 million in annualised pre-tax cost synergies by the end of 2016,
Paul Hastings has advised Ocean Holding on the acquisition of the Düsseldorfer Hypothekenbank, a German mortgage bank, from the US investor Lone Star. Measured by total assets estimated at EUR12 billion, this is the largest German bank takeover since the start of the financial crisis. Ocean Holding, a fund
Brentwood Associates, a consumer-focused private equity investment firm, has acquired Marshall Retail Group, headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Marshall Retail Group is a specialty retailer for high-foot-traffic marketplaces with locations in major casino-hotels and airports across the US. The company is led by chief executive officer Michael C Wilkins, who
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners’ (EdRIP) BioDiscovery 3 portfolio company, Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation (Sapiens SBS), has been acquired by Medtronic for approximately USD200 million in cash. Sapiens SBS, located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, is developing a DBS system that features an advanced DBS lead with 40 individual stimulation points.
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