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Varagon Capital Partners (Varagon) is serving as administrative agent, lead arranger and bookrunner on a senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of Pediatric Home Service (PHS) by InTandem Capital Partners. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Roseville, MN, Pediatric Home Service is the largest provider of complex and comprehensive in-home care to medically fragile infants, children and adolescents in the upper Midwest.   “We are excited to support InTandem and the Pediatric Home Service management team,” says Steve Warden, Partner at Varagon. “This represents Varagon’s first financing investment with InTandem. We look forward to the continued success and
Arma Partners has acted as financial advisor to One.com, a portfolio company of Accel-KKR, on its sale to Cinven.
 
 Founded in Denmark in 2002, One.com is the largest independent web hosting solutions provider in Northern Europe, trusted by over 1 million customers as the platform on which they create and maintain an online presence.   Through a suite of web hosting, website-builder and website-enhancement tools, all built on a proprietary technology platform and unified under a single brand, the company offers easy-to-use solutions for small businesses and prosumers. 
 
Northill Capital (Northill) is to purchase a majority stake in leading outsourced CIO (OCIO) business, Strategic Investment Group (Strategic) by acquiring the equity interest previously held by FFL Partners for an undisclosed sum. This partnership enables Strategic to build on its 31 years of operating independence as a leading provider of OCIO solutions through the support of Northill’s permanent and patient capital base.   Strategic, founded in 1987 and based in Arlington, Virginia, is the largest independent investment manager dedicated to the OCIO sector, with discretionary AUM of over USD28 billion. Strategic has delivered compelling performance for clients across market
SureWerx, a portfolio company of The Riverside Company and leading supplier of professional tools, equipment, and safety products, has acquired the Jackson Safety and Wilson Safety brands from Kimberly-Clark Professional, a global supplier of workplace products and solutions.  The acquired brands represent leading Industrial Personal Protective Equipment and Industrial Welding Safety products that are distributed to a global base of customers across diversified end markets.          As part of the acquisition, SureWerx will be acquiring a broad suite of products that includes Welding Helmets, Welding Accessories, Welding Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPR), Welding Barriers, Industrial Respiratory, Face Protection, Head
The shareholders of Inflexion Private Equity-backed CloserStill Media have reached an agreement to sell the exhibitions operator to Providence Equity Partners. Founded in 2008, CloserStill operates content-led exhibitions throughout the UK, Europe, the US and the Far East and has been ranked in The Sunday Times HSBC International FastTrack 200 for three consecutive years. The firm’s success is down to its ability to consistently provide world-class content and attract large, high-value audiences, with The London Vet Show, the Pharmacy Show, Learning Technologies, Cloud Expo Europe, Data Centre World, Cloud Expo and Data Centre Asia in Singapore, in its portfolio.  
Alantra has acquired a strategic stake in pan-European alternative asset manager Access Capital Partners, a deal that sees the firm add fund of funds, co-investment and secondaries strategies to its existing direct investment activities. Alantra will be offering its clients access to six specialised asset management classes: private equity, active funds, private debt, infrastructure, real estate and private wealth management.   Alantra says the investment represents a key achievement in its strategy of becoming a pan-European diversified asset manager, by (scaling up its existing businesses, developing complementary asset classes, and playing a key role in the industry consolidation taking place
American Securities has partnered with management and acquired FleetPride, a distributor of aftermarket parts for the US heavy-duty truck industry. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Based in Irving, Texas, FleetPride is the largest independent heavy-duty aftermarket parts distributor in the US. The Company acts as a critical link between 2,150 suppliers and 100,000 customers who are served through a national network of over 270 branch locations. FleetPride carries the industry’s broadest selection of aftermarket truck parts, offering over 145,000 SKUs across 490 brands, including its own private label offering.   Al Dragone, President and CEO of FleetPride, says:
Parklands Group, an independent care home provider in the north of Scotland, has received a GBP5m investment from BGF to further accelerate its growth. Set up in 1993 in Buckie by Ron Taylor, Parklands provides high-quality residential care for older people at eight care homes across Moray and the Highlands, the most recent being its newly opened state-of-the-art Lynemore home in Grantown on Spey. Parklands was one of the first nursing care providers in Scotland to achieve Investors in People status and the group has won a series of awards for the quality of its care and its commitment to
Greencoat UK Wind (UKW) is to acquire the Douglas West wind farm from Blue Energy. Completion under the Sale and Purchase Agreement is expected to take place in Q1 2019, subject to the finalisation of construction, operation and maintenance contracts. Douglas West is located 7 miles south west of Lanark, Scotland and will have a total capacity of 45MW, and will be subsidy free. Construction is expected to start in 2019, with commencement of commercial operations targeted for July 2021. Owner’s engineer and construction management services will be provided by Natural Power and Blue Energy. All construction contracts will be
Price f(x), a specialist in cloud pricing software, has raised EUR25 million in a Series B funding round led by Digital+ Partners, a European B2B technology growth investor, and management consulting firm Bain & Company. Series A investors, Prague-based Credo Ventures and London-based Talis Capital, also participated in the round.   Established in 2011 in Munich, Price f(x) provides a modular SaaS solution for Price Optimization, Management (PO&M) and Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) for enterprises of any size, based on the latest in native cloud architecture. The company currently serves over 80 global, blue-chip B2B and B2C customers across a variety of

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