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Blue Wolf Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in North American Rescue (NAR), a supplier of tactical medical products, such as tourniquets, chest seals and decompression needles.
North American Rescue’s clients include the military, law enforcement and EMS first responders.
NAR’s Chief Executive Officer, Bob Castellani, and other members of the NAR management team invested alongside Blue Wolf and will remain in their current positions. Michael Ranson, Vic Caruso and Aakash Patel of Blue Wolf will join the Company’s Board of Directors. Renaissance Strategic Advisors and Holland & Knight provided advisory services to Blue Wolf on this transaction. Additional
Pioneer Corporation and KKR have completed a share purchase agreement for Pioneer DJ, under which KKR and Pioneer now own 85.05% and 14.95%, respectively, of PDJ Holdings Co.
Pioneer DJ develops and markets equipment for DJs, including CD players, mixers, controllers, headphones and speakers. It has a leading presence in the DJ equipment market with the top global market share, strong brand image, reputation for technological differentiation as well as high profitability and is the favoured brand of a broad range of top professional and amateur DJs worldwide. Pioneer and KKR will jointly leverage their respective business resources, brand power
A total of GBP5.2 billion worth of construction contracts for 1,095 renewable energy projects were awarded in 2014, which includes a record amount of solar power projects worth over GBP1.7 billion.
That’s according to data from Barbour ABI, a sister company of Ecobuild and a chosen provider of construction data for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Government, revealed last year renewable energy planning applications increased by 26 per cent compared with 2013, continuing the trend of year on year growth in the sector. Whilst the renewable sector benefited from high levels of investment in 2014, 45 per
Law firm Ropes & Gray has advised Crescent Capital Partners Management Pty Limited (Crescent) on its over-subscribed Crescent Capital Partners V (Crescent V) fund.
An AUD675 million fund, Crescent V will seek to invest in middle market businesses primarily in Australia and New Zealand with a focus on companies worth between AUD50 million and AUD300 million.
Recognised as one of Australasia’s leading private equity firms, Crescent was formed in Sydney in 2000. The firm has a highly strategic approach to investing, targeting specific investment themes and sectors that will experience strong profit growth. Crescent’s investment approach is complemented by extensive strategy
Professional testing services provider PSI Services has partnered with Waud Capital Partners (WCP), a middle-market private equity firm.
PSI provides various solutions through its multiple business channels including talent assessments (of job-seeking candidates as well as employee development programs), licensure testing and license management services (for government regulatory agencies) and certification credentialing services (for professional associations). PSI offers clients various solutions to measure, assess and identify the skills, abilities, traits and identities of individuals seeking jobs, licensure or certification credentials.
Stephen Tapp, PSI’s Chief Executive Officer, says: "Based on the excellent growth and diversity of PSI's business portfolio, combined with
Mitel is to acquire Mavenir Systems, a provider of software-based networking solutions for mobile carriers in a cash and stock deal valued at approximately USD560 million.
Under the terms of the merger agreement, Mitel will commence an exchange offer pursuant to which Mavenir stockholders will be entitled to elect to receive either all-cash or all-stock consideration for each share of Mavenir common stock, subject to proration, in either case with a value of USD11.08 plus 0.675 of a Mitel common share, or USD17.94 based on the closing price of a Mitel common share on February 27, 2015.
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LBO France is in exclusive negotiations with Equistone Partners for the sale of Averys, a European producer of storage systems, racks and metallic furniture.
The transaction remains subject to necessary consultations and approvals and could be finalised in the coming months.
In 2013, under the impulsion of LBO France, Averys completed a transformational build-up with the acquisition of Stow, a leader in static racks and storage systems with a major production facility in Belgium. In additional to their similar activities, Averys and Stow presented important geographic complementarities. Through this major acquisition, Averys doubled in size becoming the 2nd largest
Law firm Noerr has advised the Swiss Evatec AG on the purchase of the Advanced Technologies Segment of the Oerlikon Group regarding the German aspects of the transaction.
Evatec AG’s activities include the production of plants for the manufacture of LEDs, lasers, power chips and high-performance optical, optoelectronic and semiconductor components as well as the worldwide distribution of these. In its Advanced Technologies Segment, the Oerlikon Group has developed also thin film production procedures for semiconductors and nanotechnology.
By purchasing the Advanced Technologies Segment from Oerlikon, Evatec AG intends to further expand its semiconductor and nanotechnology business segment. This acquisition
AXA has launched AXA Strategic Ventures, a EUR200 million venture capital fund dedicated to emerging strategic innovations in insurance, asset management, financial technology and healthcare services.
AXA Strategic Ventures will have on-the-ground coverage of investment opportunities worldwide. In the US, AXA Strategic Ventures will have offices in San Francisco and New York.
“AXA will share its global reach and expertise to serve as an accelerator for start-up companies that bring new, customer-focused ideas to insurance and financial services,” says Anders Malmstrom, chief financial officer of AXA US and a member of the Strategy Committee of AXA Strategic Ventures. “We will
Monroe Capital has acted as sole lead arranger and administrative agent on the funding of a USD27 million senior credit facility to provide growth capital to The Sandbox Group (Sandbox).
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, The Sandbox Group, has embarked upon building an international agency group to meet an identified gap in its industry. Sandbox is an integrated marketing communications agency specialising in the healthcare, agriculture, and financial services industries.
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