GenNx360 Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing on middle market industrial business-to-business companies, has acquired Horsburgh & Scott (H&S) for an undisclosed amount.   Horsburgh & Scott is a custom gearing manufacturer for the global marketplace. H&S manufactures, repairs, and services highly-engineered, customer specific industrial gears and gear

Private equity firm GMT Communications Partners’ portfolio company MeetingZone has completed its third bolt-on acquisition in 18 months. MeetingZone, the independent global audio/web conferencing and collaboration services provider, has acquired Atia Communications, the UK based provider of Unified Communications (UC) services and a Microsoft Lync 2010 accredited specialist.   The

Electra Private Equity has reported an uplift in its diluted net asset value per share of 33p as a result of the successful IPO of UK motor insurer esure, its third largest investment at 30 September 2012.   In 2010, Electra invested GBP30m (via the Tosca Penta Investments LP fund)

Argon Medical Devices, a portfolio company of private equity firm RoundTable Healthcare Partners, is to acquire the Interventional Products Business of Angiotech Pharmaceuticals.     The Interventional Products Business manufactures and markets disposable and re-usable biopsy products for the diagnosis of cancer, drainage catheter products, and vascular interventional products. The

Neuralstem has secured USD8m in debt financing with Hercules Technology Growth Capital to fund the company’s capital budget through late 2014.   "This debt financing extends our cash runway well into late 2014 at a critical time in our clinical product development cycle. We have multiple NSI-566 cell therapy clinical

European private equity fundraising remains subdued, with volumes raised over the last four years (2009-2012) being only 40 per cent of those raised in the four year period prior to that (2005-2008), according to research carried out by Acanthus Advisers.   However, for funds with well differentiated strategies and solid

AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has received an irrevocable offer from an investor group for its entire stake in AXA Investment Managers Private Equity SA (AXA Private Equity). The proposed transaction would be structured with a view to protecting AXA Private Equity’s investment expertise and performance-driven culture, and to ensuring