Deals
OMERS Private Equity, the private equity arm of the OMERS Worldwide group of companies, has partnered with existing management to purchase GEDC Super Holdings Inc. (together with its affiliates, "Great Expressions" or the "Company") from affiliates of private equity firm Audax Group.
Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, MI, Great Expressions is a leading dental practice management ("DPM") company, with 152 affiliated dental offices in seven states across the Midwest, South and Northeast. In the past three years, the Company has grown by adding and successfully integrating 79 offices through 10 acquisitions. With over 1,800 clinical and support
Atlantic Street Capital, a private equity firm investing in the lower middle market, has acquired Z Wireless, a retailer of Verizon Wireless voice and data communications services operating throughout the Great Plains.
Headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD, Z Wireless markets and sells a full suite of Verizon Wireless products and services from over 100 stores in nine Midwestern states. It is the largest operator of exclusive Verizon Wireless Premium Retailer stores in that region. In addition to wireless services, the company also sells a comprehensive mix of wireless devices, including smartphones, voice phones, tablets, and a broad range of accessories
Mid-market private equity firm Palamon Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in QualitySolicitors, a leading UK brand of high-street solicitors for individuals and SMEs. Details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
QualitySolicitors was founded in 2009 with the aim of building a national legal brand focused on providing improved standards of service to individual customers and SMEs. The UK high-street legal market, which represents GBP10 billion in annual revenue, is highly fragmented with approximately 10,000 firms, the vast majority of which have less than 25 solicitors. The Company has rapidly built a network of 300 locations across the UK, comprising
Lithuania SME Fund managed by BaltCap, the largest private equity and venture capital investor in the Baltic countries, has invested in Impuls LTU, operator of the leading Lithuanian health and fitness club chain.
With eight gyms in Lithuania’s main towns, Impuls LTU will be the largest health club chain in the country. Impuls LTU operates only large format clubs the size of which ranges from 2000 sq metres to 6600 sq metres. Impuls clubs offer their clients main workout and cardio areas, group exercise classes and pools as well as additional products and services. The investment should support an aggressive
JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services today announced that it has been appointed by Cerberus Capital Management, LP, one of the world’s leading private investment firms, to provide fund administration and related securities services for its investment funds with aggregate assets of over USD23 billion.
The JP Morgan platform will be supplemented by certain back-office personnel of Cerberus who will become employees of JP Morgan.
"The transition of the services to a world class third-party administrator provides our firm strong infrastructure support and the independence preferred by our investors,” says Jeffrey Lomasky, Senior Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of
Mid-market private equity firm LDC has funded the acquisition of US based MetricTest for portfolio company Microlease, the international provider of rental and asset management services to the test equipment market.
LDC originally backed the GBP30m management buyout of Microlease in 2006, investing a further GBP8.3m in 2009 to provide further capital to support a programme of acquisitions and continued organic growth.
The business subsequently acquired rental specialist Telogy International NV in 2009, making Microlease the largest provider of its kind in Europe with the most comprehensive portfolio of services, followed by Hamilton Hall Consultants earlier this year to
Saffar Holdings Limited has retained Arma Partners LLP to advise on strategic options in relation to its portfolio company, Zawya Limited in response to several unsolicited expressions of interest in Zawya that have recently been received.
Founded in 2001 and based in Dubai, UAE, Saffar is a leading early-stage private equity investor in the financial services sector in the Middle East and North Africa (“MENA”). Its focus is to nurture and grow financial services companies to serve the region. Saffar acquired a majority stake in Zawya in 2001 and has provided financial and management support with which the Company has
The Blackstone Group and ACM Projektentwicklung GmbH thave agreed a strategic partnership whereby investment funds advised by Blackstone will acquire, indirectly through a holding company, a 44% minority stake in Leica Camera AG (Leica), to support the company’s international growth plans.
Headquartered in Solms, Germany, with 1,150 employees, Leica has a long tradition of manufacturing premium-segment cameras and sport optics products. Over the past sixty years, Leica has grown to become a leading German brand and is seen as the epitome of German engineering excellence and an ambassador of the “Made in Germany” quality seal. Leica has become synonymous with
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has reached an agreement to acquire an 85% share of Telecable de Asturias SAU (Telecable), a Spanish-based TV, telephony, broadband and advanced business solutions provider for the Asturias region in Spain.
Liberbank will retain a minority stake after the transaction, which is expected to close by year-end. The transaction values the company at EUR400 million; equity for this investment will come from Carlyle Europe Partners III (CEP III), a EUR5.3 billion investment fund advised by The Carlyle Group.
Telecable is a well-established telecommunications provider with 156,000 fixed and mobile voice and Internet
Statoil ASA and Brigham Exploration Company have entered into a merger agreement for Statoil to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Brigham for USD 36.5 per share through an all-cash tender offer.
The Brigham Board of Directors has unanimously recommended to its shareholders that they accept the offer. Ben "Bud" M. Brigham, Chairman, President and CEO and the other executive officers and directors of Brigham, who collectively own approximately 2.5% of the outstanding shares, have agreed to tender all of their shares. The total equity value is approximately USD 4.4 billion, reflecting an enterprise value of approximately USD 4.7
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