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Ancor Capital Partners, a Dallas private equity firm, has sold WellSpring Pharma Services to ANI Pharmaceuticals.
Terms of the sale, which was finalised on 6 August, have not been disclosed.
WellSpring Pharma Services provides pharmaceutical manufacturing services for virtually all non-sterile finished dosage form products, including solids, semisolids, and oral liquids and suspensions, as well as primary and secondary packaging in a variety of presentations.
When Ancor, along with co-investor Sentinel Capital Partners, acquired the WellSpring business in 2011, it consisted of three separate business operations – prescription drugs, consumer health care and over-the-counter products, and contract manufacturing
Fund administrator Apex Group (Apex) and Genstar Capital have jointly acquired Custom House, a global hedge fund administrator delivering services to alternative investment managers across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
The acquisition adds a further USD24 billion in assets under administration to the Group’s portfolio and is a strong strategic and cultural fit given its independent business model and focus on delivering a personal approach customer service. The addition of the Custom House business bolsters Apex’s existing hedge fund service arm. With offices in Beijing, Chicago, Dublin, Geneva, Hong Kong, Malta, Rotterdam, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Sofia, and Sydney, Custom House
An affiliate of HIG Growth Partners (HIG) has completed a strategic investment in Sage Hospice (Sage), a provider of hospice and palliative care services to patients in the Phoenix, AZ market.
Sage will serve as the platform to build a leading regional provider of hospice and palliative care services. To execute on this strategy, HIG is partnering with two experienced hospice industry executives, Glen Cavallo and Jeff Lang. Cavallo, who will join Sage’s board of directors at closing, has over 25 years of experience in the hospice and home care sectors. Lang, who became Sage’s CEO at closing, has
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is to acquire Quorum Software (Quorum), a specialist in digital transformation for the oil and gas industry, from Silver Lake.
The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of this year, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Since its inception in 1998, Quorum has delivered purpose-built software, fuelling the digital transformation of the oil and gas industry and operates in markets across the United States and Canada. Quorum serves its customer base by providing integrated solutions for their core processing needs across
An affiliate of middle market private equity firm Peak Rock Capital (Peak Rock) is to acquire the TNT Crust business (TNT), a manufacturer and distributor of pizza crusts, from Tyson Foods, Inc.
Founded in 1981, TNT is a manufacturer and distributor of partially baked, self-rising, flat breads and other pizza crusts for the foodservice and retail channels. TNT has a diverse customer base, including blue chip national and regional restaurants, pizza manufacturers, and foodservice distributors. Headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and operating out of two BRC-certified manufacturing facilities, the Company has built an excellent reputation in the industry for its outstanding
Mekong Capital’s Mekong Enterprise Fund II (MEF II) has successfully sold 100 per cent of its final remaining investment, resulting in the fund achieving a net return multiple of 4.5x and net IRR of 22.5 per cent for its investors.
This has marked one of the most successful funds in Asian Private Equity.
Launched in 2006, MEF II is the second private equity fund managed by Mekong Capital. MEF II’s notable investments included Mobile World (Vietnam’s largest nationwide retailer of mobile devices and consumer electronics), Golden Gate (the leading restaurant chain operator in Vietnam), Vietnam Australia International School (a
ADM Capital has exited its Central Eastern European and Kazakhstan private equity business, collectively known as the CK Region, through a management buyout.
The disposal, which completed on the 1 August, will allow ADM Capital to focus its strategic resources on further growing its Asian fixed income business, leveraging its global Cibus Fund platform and expanding the work of the ADM Capital Foundation.
Founded in 2006, ADM Capital CK Region was established to manage the ADM Ceecat Recovery Fund, the ADM Kazakhstan Capital Restructuring Fund, Kazakhstan Growth Fund and the CCL Kazakhstan Silk Road Agriculture Growth Fund.
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One Equity Partners’ (OEP) portfolio company Simplura Health Group (Simplura), a provider of care services for elderly and disabled populations, has completed the acquisition of Helping Hand Home Health & Hospice Agency (Helping Hand).
Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Philadelphia, Helping Hand is an independent provider of non-medical home care services for seniors in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The Company provides a wide range of services including personal care attendant services, home health services, hospice services and skilled nursing, among others.
“Helping Hand has an excellent reputation for delivering quality care
YFM Equity Partners has backed the MBO of DSP Database Managed Services (DSP), a provider of database and data platform managed services, and invested GBP4.5 million from its managed funds into Collaborative Project Management Services (CPMS), to support the continued growth of the business through ongoing new product and market development.
CPMS provides multidiscipline Project Management to the railway system across track, signalling, telecoms, civils, and overhead lines.
DSP and CPMS are the sixth and seventh investments from YFM’s Buyout Fund, since its final close in April 2017.
Golden Gate Ventures, a venture capital investor in Southeast Asia, is spinning out a dedicated fund for global blockchain investments. LuneX Ventures is a partnership between the firm and its former Head of Growth, Kenrick Drijkoningen, now Founding Partner of LuneX.
LuneX Ventures is a spin-out from the early-stage VC firm, Golden Gate Ventures. LuneX is a Venture Capital firm with a global mandate to invest exclusively in high-growth blockchain companies and cryptocurrency assets.
Drijkoningen says: “We view blockchain as a foundational technology, on a par with or possibly exceeding the Internet in disruptive potential. Right now valuations have
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