Riverstone Investment Group  is to become a 50 per cent partner in the Utopia Pipeline Project.  To acquire its ownership interest, Riverstone agreed to an upfront cash payment provided at closing, consisting of reimbursement to Kinder Morgan Investment (KMI) for its 50 per cent share of prior capital expenditures related

Henkel Consumer Goods is to acquire The Sun Products Corporation (Sun Products), a Vestar Capital Partners V portfolio company. The transaction is valued at USD3.6 billion. Sun Products, based in Connecticut, has a portfolio of iconic laundry and household brands, such as all, Sun, Wisk, Snuggle and Sunlight. The company

Audax Private Equity (Audax) has completed the sale of Integrated Supply Network “(SN) to Freeman Spogli & Co (Freeman Spogli), a private equity firm based in Los Angeles, California, in conjunction with management and other investors.  Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Lakeland, Florida, ISN is

Inflexion Private Equity has sold CMO, the enterprise health, safety, environment (HSE) and governance, risk, compliance (GRC) software solutions business, to Mitratech, a US-headquartered global software provider, backed by TA Associates.  Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.   CMO serves blue-chip customers which include Maersk Group, KPMG,

Private equity firm Encore Consumer Capital has completed the sale of its portfolio company, Mesa Foods, a producer of tortillas, flatbreads and taco shells to Teasdale Foods, a leading provider of private label and branded beans, hominy, peppers, sauces, corn products and seasoning products.  Scott Sellers, Managing Director of Encore

Audax Private Equity (Audax) has completed the sale of Neptune-Benson (Neptune) to Evoqua Water Technologies (Evoqua), a portfolio company of AEA Investors (AEA).  Evoqua is headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania and is a leader in water and wastewater treatment products, systems, and services for industrial and municipal customers. Headquartered in Coventry,

Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to MSI Holding AB (AddSecure), a portfolio company of GMT Communications Partners and Viking Venture AS, on its sale to ABRY Partners. Headquartered in Stockholm, AddSecure is the Nordic market leader providing secure mission-critical M2M communications for security and other applications across

Brazos Private Equity Partners, a Dallas-based private investment firm, has sold Ennis-Flint – a specialist in pavement markings and traffic safety solutions – to an affiliate of Olympus Partners. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Thomasville, North Carolina, Ennis-Flint serves more than 4,000 government and

Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in Workplace Systems, the provider of cloud-based scheduling software to the retail and hospitality sectors, in a sale to US-based WorkForce Software, for an undisclosed sum.   WorkForce, which is backed by US private equity firm Insight Venture Partners, is one