Grant Avenue Capital, a middle market healthcare-focused private equity firm, has launched Helios Clinical Research, a new integrated clinical site organisation that partners with patients, physicians, and biopharma sponsors to optimise clinical research. 

Armònia, an Italian private equity fund manager, together with the minority shareholders, including CEO Vanni Benedetti, has sold 100% of BioDue, an Italian player in the market of food supplements, medical devices and cosmetics, to the international private equity fund manager Riverside. The sale of BioDue, which will be completed once the regulatory approvals have been obtained, is the second exit for Armònia Italy Fund. The completion of this transaction will allow Armònia to repay to investors more than 90% of total invested capital. Armònia acquired the stake in BioDue at the end of 2019 through a delisting. During the

Private equity funds managed by Blackstone have signed definitive agreements with Satinder Singh Rekhi and other current promoters to purchase a majority stake in R Systems International Limited for up to $359 million.

KKR has led a $68 million Series B funding round in Advanced Navigation, a developer of AI robotics and navigation technology. The funding round includes participation from new investors such as deep learning venture firm AI Capital and existing investors, including Main Sequence.

San Francisco Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on partnering with lower middle market companies across the consumer value chain, has acquired DGS Retail, a provider of décor, signage, fixtures, displays and other critical products to customers in the grocery, retail, foodservice and consumer brand end markets. 

Ara Partners has acquired a majority ownership interest in Lincoln Terminal Holdings (Lincoln), a renewable fuel logistics and infrastructure provider in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic United States. 

Momentum Manufacturing Group (MMG), a North American metal manufacturing services provider and portfolio company of One Equity Partners, has acquired two precision machining services providers Evans Industries Inc (Evans) and Little Enterprises, (Little). Terms of the private transactions have not been disclosed. Founded in 1965Evans produces mission-critical components for the semiconductor and medical end markets. Its capabilities include machining, finishing and complex assembly, with a focus on working with specialty metal alloys. Little, founded in 1994, is a precision machining services provider for critical components in the semiconductor, aerospace and defense, and medical end markets. Little also focuses on specialty

HIG Capital, a global private equity investment firm with $52 billion of equity capital under management, has acquired a majority stake in Onis Visa, a European operator in the design, assembly and sale of generating sets and motor pumps.  The investment of HIG will be in partnership with the Barro family who founded the company over 60 years ago and will retain the current management positions in the company.   Founded in 1960, Onis Visa is today one of the leading industrial groups in its market and is known for its advanced technical and engineering capabilities that allow the Group