Oak Hill Capital Partners has made a USD55 million strategic investment in Southern Air. The investment by Oak Hill Capital, which has been Southern Air’s majority investor since 2007, will support the completion of Southern Air’s fleet renewal and the company’s continued growth. Denis J Nayden, a Managing Partner of Oak

Sala International, the document archiving and records storage business backed by mid-market private equity house LDC, has merged with EDM Group, the document management business backed by ECI Partners. The GBP52m merger, which sees ECI Partners exit its investment, creates one of the UK’s largest providers of outsourced information management

Private equity firm Eigen Capital’s portfolio company Plews, Inc, has completed the acquisition of Solon, OH-based Omega Hose Manufacturing Inc, a subsidiary of ATSCO Remanufacturing Inc. of Phoenix, AZ. Eigen Capital closed the acquisition of Plews, Inc less than six months ago, and the acquisition of Omega Hose Manufacturing is

FBL Financial Group has agreed to sell its subsidiary, EquiTrust Life Insurance Company, to controlled affiliates of Guggenheim Partners, LLC for a preliminary purchase price of USD440 million in an all-cash transaction. EquiTrust Life sells fixed and indexed annuities and life insurance nationally through independent agents and marketing organisations. Guggenheim

Private equity investment firm HIG Capital has acquired certain assets of WhiteHorse Capital, a Dallas-based CLO manager with experience managing over USD1.7 billion of capital, and formed HIG WhiteHorse to provide flexible financing solutions to profitable and performing small and middle market companies. With more than USD1 billion of capital

GenNx360 Capital Partners has sold SiVance, LLC to Milliken & Company. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. SiVance, LLC is a leader in silicone chemistry, focused on the development and manufacture of specialty silicone technologies and intermediates required to modify basic silicone polymers. GenNx360 Capital Partners, LP

Holland Private Equity (HPE) has invested substantial primary capital in Synova SA (Synova) in a capital increase of up to CHF20 million to become the firm’s largest outside shareholder. The expansion capital will allow Synova to further execute its internationalization, sales expansion and fuel further product development of its unique

The total value of UK mergers, acquisitions, flotations, rights issues and placements was GBP181.4 billion in the first nine months of 2011, an increase of 15.7 per cent on the same period in 2010, according to Experian Corpfin. This was despite the overall volume of deals falling by 6.7 per