DNV has acquired 74.3% of KEMA’s shares. The new combined company DNV KEMA will consist of all 1,800 KEMA employees and 500 employees from DNV’s renewable energy and sustainability activities. The new company will be led by Thijs Aarten, the CEO of KEMA, and headquartered in Arnhem, the Netherlands.  Aarten

Perusa Partners has held a EUR200 million first and final closing of Perusa Partners Fund 2, a Guernsey limited partnership managed by Guernsey-based Perusa Partners Management Limited. Perusa believes that the success and fast-pace of the fund’s final closing is attributable to significant support from existing investors, combined with exceptional

Denver-based private equity firm KRG Capital Partners (KRG) has completed its sale of Avizent to York Risk Services Organization, Inc, a portfolio company of ABRY Partners. The all-cash sale closed on, 2011 and represents KRG’s third successful exit in its USD715 million Fund III. Avizent, headquartered in Dublin, Ohio is

Manfield Partners has acquired two packaged food businesses – MCM Select Foods Limited in the UK and MCM Foods BV in the Netherlands – from Mitsui & Co Ltd of Japan.   The two businesses import, distribute and market a mixture of exclusive brands and own label foods for retailers

VTB Capital and I2BF Global Ventures have jointly launched a USD100m nanotechnology venture fund with cornerstone backing from the Russian state nanotechnology fund RusNano and Kazyna Capital Management, the sovereign wealth fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan. These entities have committed USD25m each to the new fund, with VTB Capital

The Riverside Company and Tensator  have completed the acquisition of Portuguese customer journey management specialist Newvision. Newvision offers a range of products including dispersed queue management systems, self-service and multimedia information kiosks, and digital displays. Newvision develops integrated products through five product lines that provide virtual queue management, people counting,

An affiliate of Sun European Partners is to acquire American Golf, Europe’s largest golfing retailer from LDC. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed. American Golf has 88 stores in the UK and Republic of Ireland, the company has two online sites and around 760 employees. The business

Google and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) have teamed up to invest in a portfolio of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects held by Recurrent Energy. The portfolio of projects is financed with a combination of debt and equity, which includes a significant equity investment from Google in addition to equity from SunTap