Law firm Trowers & Hamlins advised international private equity firm C&C Alpha Group on the sale of Alpha Hospitals to Cygnet Health Care, one of the UK largest independent providers of mental health and social care pathways. Alpha Hospitals operates three low to medium secure mental health facilities located in
Fifteen years after the dotcom collapse we see another tech crash approaching. ‘Bubble’ and ‘unicorn’ are entering the mainstream vernacular. We are becoming comfortably numb with tech company overvaluations, says Victor Basta, managing partner at Magister Advisors… The vocabulary has changed (for ‘dotcom’ read ‘unicorn’), the dynamics are different (largely
Private equity firm GTCR has completed the previously announced sale of its portfolio company Cord Blood Registry (CBR) to AMAG Pharmaceuticals (AMAG), a specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on maternal health and haematology, for USD700 million. Founded in 1992, CBR is the world’s largest newborn stem cell company, entrusted by
Inflexion has sold its Partnership Capital investment in Rhead Group (Rhead), a technical professional services consultancy, to Costain Group PLC (Costain) in a transaction valued at GBP36 million. Acquisitive growth and diversification were the focus of our partnership. Inflexion supported four transformational add-on acquisitions broadening Rhead’s offering, customer base and
CXR Biosciences Limited, (CXR) the Dundee-based investigative and exploratory toxicology business, has been sold by its shareholders – including Archangel Investors and Scottish Investment Bank – to UK-based Concept Life Sciences, the growing life sciences, scientific laboratory and consultancy group. CXR is a leading investigative toxicology business. Its in-house expertise
Affinia Group, including its global filtration operations, but excluding its Affinia South America (ASA) operations, will be sold to MANN+HUMMEL. Based in Ludwigsburg, Germany, MANN+HUMMEL is a privately-held global filtration expert offering filtration solutions to original equipment and aftermarket customers in both the automotive and industrial sectors. "Our agreement
Noerr has advised publisher Verlagsgruppe Passau on the sale of its Czech publishing business to the financial investor Penta. The parties have agreed not to disclose the volume of the transaction. The sale still requires the clearance of the Czech antitrust authorities. The transaction includes all shares in the Prague-based
Private equity firm Gryphon Investors is to sell its portfolio company Trinity Consultants to an affiliate of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Trinity, which Gryphon acquired in partnership with management in 2011, is a leading environmental consulting firm which specialises in providing air
Deutsche Telekom AG has entered into an agreement on the sale of the online platform t-online.de and the digital marketer InteractiveMedia CCSP to Ströer SE. The transaction is to be carried out by way of a capital increase of Ströer against in-kind contributions of the two entities. In this
Symantec Corp is to sell its information management business, known as Veritas, to an investor group led by The Carlyle Group together with GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, and other expected co-investors, for USD8 billion in cash. The transaction, which was unanimously approved by Symantec's Board of Directors, is expected
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