Deals
For the first quarter of 2012, the IntraLinks Deal Flow Indicator (DFI), which provides an early view of current deal flow activity and trends in the global market prior to public announcement, shows a 23 per cent increase in global merger and acquisition (M&A) deal activity compared to Q1 2011.
All regions also showed a year-over-year positive trend for Q1 2012 over Q1 2011, with the strongest growth in Asia Pacific (58 per cent) and similarly positive trends in Latin America (42 per cent) and Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) (29 per cent). While North America also posted an increase, it was
Harris Williams & Co has advised on the sale of Silverchair Learning Systems, LLC (SLS), a healthcare IT (HCIT) provider delivering online learning and communication solutions to the senior care industry.
SLS, a subsidiary of Silverchair Holdings, Inc. (Silverchair), was sold to Vista Equity Partners (Vista). The transaction was led by Sam Hendler from the firm’s Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) Group and Cheairs Porter from the firm’s Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS) Group.
“Attracting capital from an investor of Vista’s caliber is a testament to what the SLS team has achieved and the ongoing opportunity for differentiated SaaS businesses
Mid-market private equity house Dunedin has sold WFEL, a leader in mobile tactical military bridging, to KMW, a German land defence systems provider. The sale has realised a multiple of 2.4x for Dunedin.
Under Dunedin’s ownership WFEL has seen significant growth in sales, predominantly exports, increasing by nearly 70% to £36.2 million in the year ended December 2011. Employee numbers have increased by around 15% to 228 over this period.
WFEL manufactures high specification, high functionality, complex mobile bridging systems for use in military and disaster relief scenarios. WFEL’s expertise – built on a century of UK engineering excellence and
Middle-market private equity firm BV Investment Partners has made an investment in Health Information Designs (HID).
HID is a leading provider of primarily healthcare-related information technology and data analytics services, which help healthcare organisations improve patient health and reduce operating costs. The company also offers insurance identification and verification services focused on reducing the uninsured motorist rate. The investment in HID was made in partnership with the Gibson family, who founded the business in 1979. The company is headquartered in Auburn, Alabama.
HID’s healthcare offering includes drug utilisation review, prescription drug monitoring, prior authorisation and surveillance utilisation review solutions. The company’s
Private equity deal volume in the first quarter of 2012 exceeded expectations, according to GF Data.
"Most private equity professionals are predicting a flood of deal activity in 2012. The volume of reported deals in the first quarter suggests it’s already starting to happen," says Andrew T Greenberg (pictured), GF Data’s CEO and co-founder. "Over the prior eight years covered in our data universe, completed deal volume dropped an average of about 25 per cent from the fourth quarter of one year to the first quarter of the next. This year’s ten per cent dip decline compares especially favourably with
AMETEK has completed the previously announced acquisition of the parent company of Dunkermotoren GmbH from private equity firm Triton for EUR250 million (USD320 million).
The acquisition of Dunkermotoren, a specialist in advanced motion control solutions for a wide range of industrial automation applications, is expected to be immediately accretive, adding approximately USD0.02 per diluted share to 2012 earnings and approximately USD0.10 per diluted share to earnings in 2013.
"We are excited about the acquisition of such an outstanding company," says Frank S Hermance, AMETEK Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Dunkermotoren is a global leader in highly engineered advanced motion control solutions
Gresham, the UK mid market private equity specialist, has invested GBP23 million in the management buy-out of Warrington-based Integrated Engineering Stores Associates (IESA), a specialist in the management of maintenance, repair and operating goods (MRO) expenditure, through integrated supply solutions.
The buy-out plan is to take advantage of the inherent growth in the MRO outsourcing market, consider international opportunities and expand the business into new verticals.
IESA was established in 2001 as an integrated supply business to provide outsourced stores management for manufacturing facilities.
The firm invested heavily in IT, and now uses its software to manage clients’ supply
The Riverside Company has completed the sale of MK Chimney Systems to French buyer Isotip-Joncoux Group. The sale of the Polish producer of chimney systems, liners and related products generated a gross cash-on-cash return of 2.9x.
Based in Zary, Poland, MK manufactures and distributes a wide variety of branded, high-quality flue gas extraction systems made of refined steel to customers throughout Europe. It is a leading player in Poland and holds an established position in Germany and Scandinavia. The company offers a wide variety of chimney systems, including single wall chimneys, double wall chimneys, condensation systems, chimney cowls and
The Aureos Southern Africa Fund LLC (ASAF) has sold its 49% stake in Zambia’s foremost producer of table eggs, Golden Lay Limited (Golden Lay).
Golden Lay is involved in the production, distribution and sale of chicken table eggs throughout the Copperbelt region of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has a strong presence in Zambia, accounting for approximately 15% of the total Zambian market for table eggs and operates from a world class bio-secure farm with state-of-the-art climate controlled production facilities.
Golden Lay sells eggs from its farm through a network of hundreds of small-scale traders who
glendonTodd Capital LLC, a private equity firm that focuses on investments in business services companies and investments in real estate has acquired Toutatis Inc in conjunction with Performa Partners.
Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Toutatis Inc is a full service business process outsourcing (BPO) provider in Latin America and offers a wide variety of BPO solutions in human resource outsourcing, finance and accounting outsourcing and procurement outsourcing.
The firm has offices in ten countries throughout Central and South America, giving it the ability to serve international clients with operations throughout the region, including: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay,
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