Deals
Clairvest Group has made a USD28.5m investment in Winters Bros Waste Systems of CT, its fourth investment in the waste management industry.
Winters Bros of CT is a privately-owned, regional solid waste collection, recycling and disposal company based in Danbury, Connecticut. The company provides residential, commercial and industrial waste and recycling collection services in western and south-western Connecticut as well as in Westchester County and Putnam County in New York.
Winters Bros. of CT also operates several transfer stations and a single stream recycling facility.
Clairvest's portion of the investment is USD7.6m.
Clairvest is partnering with Joe
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) targeting companies in Western Europe in November rose in terms of aggregate deal value with an eight per cent increase recorded against a 23 per cent decline by volume.
There were 1,537 deals worth a combined EUR49,761m in November, compared to 2,007 transactions valued at EUR46,277m in October, according to information collected by the M&A database Zephyr.
The picture is less positive in a year-on-year comparison as volume was down on 12 months ago (November 2012: 1,911). Value also failed to reach the EUR60,386m recorded in November 2012.
Private equity and venture capital investments
21 Partners has sold Almaviva Santé, a network of private clinics in the Marseille region, to a consortium of private equity investors including GIMV and UI Gestion.
Founded in 2007 by 21 Partners and CEO entrepreneur Bruno Marie, Almaviva Santé is composed of seven clinics, all top-rated in the south of France.
The company has leading practices in the fields of orthopaedic and ophthalmic surgery.
21 Partners has supported Almaviva Santé in the structuring of its platform to improve efficiency through the development of a group quality standard policy.
With a staff of over 600 practitioners and
KKR is to acquire a minority stake in Gland Pharma, an Indian pure-play generic injectable pharmaceutical products company, for approximately USD200m.
This includes KKR acquiring the entire stake held by Evolvence India Life Sciences Fund (EILSF), an existing private equity investor in Gland Pharma.
Established in 1978 and based in Hyderabad, Gland Pharma develops and manufactures generic injectables primarily for the US market and also for India and other semi-regulated markets. In 2003, Gland Pharma was the first company in India to get US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for pharmaceutical liquid injectable products. Gland Pharma has also
Odyssey Investment Partners has completed the sale of its portfolio company One Call Care Management to funds advised by Apax Partners.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Jacksonville, Florida, One Call is a provider of specialised cost containment services to the workers' compensation industry.
In December 2009, Odyssey acquired One Call Medical which was merged with MSC Care Management in August 2012 to form One Call Care Management. Over the last four years, the company has grown both organically and through acquisitions.
"We set out to undertake a business transformation with One
Lynx Equity, a Canadian-based manager of private equity funds, has received USD15m in financing from Windsor Private Capital.
“This financing comes at a period of rapid growth for Lynx. It will allow us to continue with our acquisition strategy and diversify our portfolio. This has been a record year for Lynx, and we couldn’t be more pleased to have Windsor as a partner in this success,” says Lynx president Brad Nathan.
Lynx has acquired four new subsidiaries this fiscal year, with plans to close five more before the end of fiscal 2014 bringing its total portfolio to 35 companies.
Morgenthaler Private Equity (MPE) has sold Satellite Logistics Group (SLG), a provider of reverse beverage logistics and supply chain management solutions, to JF Hillebrand Group.
SLG is an asset-light provider of reverse logistics solutions and related services to the beer and beverage industry. Its supply chain solutions include Kegspediter keg management, LogiTrax freight management and EcoBev beverage disposal services.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, SLG manages two company-leased and nine third-party-operated distribution and consolidation centres near major ports and transportation hubs throughout the US.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Kevin Brady, chief executive of SLG,
Nordic Capital Fund V and funds advised by CVC Capital Partners have through their respective holding companies, Cidron Pord and Godis Holding, sold their entire holding of 16.1 per cent of the shares in Cloetta in a placement to institutional investors in Sweden and other countries.
The placement was made at a price of SEK19.40 per B-share.
Nordic Capital and CVC acquired Leaf in March 2005 with the goal of growing the company and strengthening its competitiveness. Leaf and listed Cloetta merged in February 2012. The merged company has since then been listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm as Cloetta
Metric Capital Partners (MCP), the European private capital group, has completed its growth capital investment in Secure Trading Limited, a global payment services provider headquartered in London.
Secure Trading offers a suite of payment solutions to online businesses, including a payment gateway, online accounting and treasury management, and counter-fraud services.
Metric’s investment will further drive its expansion in the online payments industry.
The company is part of the UC Group, which owns several technology companies in the payments domain, including Cognosec, an IT security and PCI compliance specialist based in Vienna.
Secure Trading is headquartered in Canary
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Fondo Strategico Italiano (FSI) has signed a memorandum to establish a EUR1bn Russian-Italian investment platform.
The signing ceremony took place in Trieste in presence of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin (pictured) and the Prime Minister of Italy Enrico Letta.
The two financial institutions will invest up to EUR500m each primarily in companies and projects promoting the development of foreign trade and FDI between Italy and Russia.
Kirill Dmitriev, chief executive of RDIF, says: “The Russian-Italian investment platform has the significant potential to stimulate mutual trade and investment cooperation between Russia
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