Deals
Investment firm Altas Partners (Altas) is to acquire DuBois Chemicals (DuBois), a specialty chemical supplier, from The Jordan Company (TJC). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
DuBois is a premier provider of customised and value-added specialty chemicals solutions and services to a global customer base. The Company combines local high-touch technical service, leading R&D capabilities, customised equipment solutions, and deep knowledge of manufacturing processes to deliver reliable, mission-critical, and innovative products to more than 15,000 customers globally across a spectrum of industries and end markets. DuBois’ full suite of solutions and services brings leading, reliable technologies that
Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus is to acquire a majority interest in WebPT from previous investor, Battery Ventures.
Since its launch in 2008, WebPT has maintained a track record of steady growth. Today, it provides electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management software for outpatient physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists.
The fast-growing healthcare software-as-a-service (SaaS) company – which was recently named to the Inc. 5000 list for the seventh-consecutive year – has become the category leader in its space with 85,000 customers at more than 15,000 clinics across the US and its territories.
“Warburg Pincus has an
Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the mid-market, has acquired SSJA Bariatric Management (SSJA), a provider of administrative support services to bariatric surgery offices in the New York metropolitan area.
The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
SSJA provides administrative services to 15 bariatric surgery offices in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut that collectively operate as the New York Bariatric Group and employ bariatric surgeons, other specialists, and physician assistants. Founded by Dr. Shawn Garber, SSJA supports practices that offer a full suite of bariatric
Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square), a pan-European private equity firm, is to sell CPL Holdings (Cartonplast), an operator of sustainable pools of returnable transport packaging materials (RTP), to German private equity investor Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) and the DBAG-advised DBAG Fund VII.
Closing of the transaction is subject to regulatory approvals.
Stirling Square created the Company in 2013 with a simultaneous double buy-out of private equity-owned Cartonplast Group GmbH and family-owned Trading Cartonplast Iberica SA. Since then, Stirling Square has worked closely with management to achieve seamless integration, efficient and effective partnerships with clients, as well as organic and external
Growth private equity firm TA Associates is to make a strategic growth investment in the Gong Cha Group (Gong Cha), a provider of premium quality bubble and milk tea.
The founders of Gong Cha Korea will participate in the investment alongside TA. Financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in early October, have not been disclosed.
Gong Cha’s main offering, Taiwanese-style bubble tea, is sweet milk tea infused with pearl-shaped tapioca. The company also offers a variety of seasonal and specialty tea-based drinks. Utilising primarily a franchise model, Gong Cha reaches consumers through a variety of
Texas-based investment firm Satori Capital has completed a USD30 million investment in Cicero Capital Partners.
The investment is part of the Satori XL Partnership Program, which forms strategic acceleration partnerships with talented emerging investment managers that typically have at least a three-year track record and less than USD100 million of AUM.
Based in Columbia, Maryland, Cicero actively manages a portfolio of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and other commercial real estate structured opportunities. The firm’s AUM as of 1 July, 2019, is approximately USD77 million.
Cicero’s portfolio managers have developed a comprehensive due diligence process over a combined 38 years of
Private equity firm NexPhase Capital (NexPhase) has sold InsideRE Holdings (Inside Real Estate), a provider of cloud-based real estate software, to Lovell Minnick Partners. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
One of the first technology providers in the industry to offer an end-to-end platform with all of the necessary tools to succeed in one place, Inside Real Estate has built, acquired and integrated software solutions that were previously missing in the market. Since partnering with the Company in 2016, NexPhase has worked closely with Ned Stringham, CEO of InsideRE, and the rest of its leadership team to bolster
Washington DC-based private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington Capital) is to sell Ontario Systems (Ontario) to New Mountain Capital.
Ontario Systems is a provider of enterprise software that automates operations and accelerates revenue recovery for clients in the healthcare, accounts receivable management (ARM), and government markets. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Matt Altman, a Managing Partner at Arlington Capital, says: “Arlington’s investment in Ontario Systems continues our track record of successful partnership with founding management teams to drive transformational growth in healthcare software companies. The investments in technology and people that we have made over
Avenue Capital Group, a global investment firm, is to acquire Pollen Street Capital’s interest in the Irish development and bridging finance lending platform, Castlehaven Finance, for an amount in excess of EUR250 million.
The transaction will result in Pollen Street Capital, the independent alternative asset investment management company, exiting its investment in Castlehaven Finance, which it has held through its credit lending arms, P2P Global Investments PLC and Honeycomb Investment Trust PLC.
Castlehaven Finance was founded in response to the need for an alternative lender in the residential development market as the Irish housing market began to recover in 2014
European fund manager STAR Capital Partnership has acquired Windhoist Holdings (Windhoist), a leading wind turbine installation contractor for an undisclosed consideration.
Originally founded in Ireland in the 1950s with a focus on agricultural machinery, the family owned business grew quickly, and by 2005 was supplying mechanical and electrical engineering turnkey services to the emerging wind industry under the Windhoist brand, filling a gap in the UK market. With a historical focus on the on-shore wind market, more recently it successfully completed the portside construction of 84 offshore wind towers for the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind project, the first to utilise
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