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Harris Williams & Co has advised Mister Car Wash, a portfolio company of private equity platform ONCAP, on its sale to private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners.
Harris Williams acted as lead financial advisor to Mister Car Wash.
The transaction, which closed on 21 August, was led by Joe Conner, Jason Bass, Jershon Jones and Jeff Kidd of Harris Williams’s transportation and logistics group, and Chris Williams from the firm’s Richmond office.
“Mister Car Wash has established itself as the premier operator in the car wash and lube centre industry. Leonard Green’s longstanding experience with world-class multi-site
2013 was a year of strong private equity exit activity in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region, the third highest on record, according to the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA).
Unlike the previous two record years, 2013 was not dominated by one or two large disposals.
In addition, 88 companies were exited, the highest number in the past seven years. However, both fundraising and investment activity fell relative to 2012. Despite this, the region continues the trend seen since 2010 for a year-on-year increase in the number of companies receiving private-equity backing, which increased by
Highland Capital Management has launched a non-traded product line with a publicly-registered business development company (BDC) NexPoint Capital.
The BDC will be the industry’s first healthcare-focused fund of its kind with a target raise of USD1.5bn in capital for investing primarily in medium-sized businesses.
NexPoint Capital represents Highland’s initial non-traded product with the company announcing plans to introduce additional non-traded products later this year. The BDC will be distributed by Highland Capital Funds Distributor and will be led by Brad Ross, president of Highland Funds, and Brian Mitts, chief operating officer of NexPoint Advisors and head of business development
Private equity firm GTCR has completed the acquisition of Cole-Parmer Instrument Company from Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Cole-Parmer, headquartered in Vernon Hills, Illinois, is a manufacturer and distributor of specialty laboratory equipment, instruments and supplies to a diverse range of customers in pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, chemicals, food and other research-based or regulated markets.
GTCR is partnering with life science industry veteran Bernd Brust to carve-out the business from Thermo Fisher and position the business for future growth.
Brust, former CEO of Qualicaps and, previously, chief commercial operations officer of Life Technologies Corporation (acquired by Thermo Fisher in 2014), will
Sensata Technologies is to acquire the Schrader group of companies from private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners for a total enterprise value of USD1.0 billion.
Schrader specialises in tyre pressure monitoring sensors (TPMS).
The transaction provides TPMS and additional low pressure sensing capabilities that address large and fast growing sensing markets and adds to Sensata's industry-leading sensing position.
The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2014.
Schrader is headquartered in Denver, Colorado and has sales and engineering offices in the US, the UK, Germany, China, Japan and
Private equity firm Bregal Partners is teaming up with Dental Partners to acquire general dentistry-focused practices that have USD5 million to USD25 million in revenue in the Southeast, Texas and Midwestern geographies.
Post-acquisition, Dental Partners intends to support the growth of these practices through further in-market, small acquisitions.
Founded by Todd Christie, Dental Partners is a general dentistry-focused dental practice management platform operating in Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, and Georgia. Christie started Dental Partners in 2011 with his acquisition of a single clinic in Tennessee, and the company has since grown to 20 clinics via acquisition.
A dentist himself,
Private equity firm Intervale Capital has acquired Recapture Solutions from Triten Corporation.
Recapture provides flare reduction and natural gas power solutions to oil and gas production companies in the Permian, Williston (Bakken) and DJ (Niobrara) basins.
Intervale is a private equity firm which invests exclusively in oilfield manufacturing and service companies.
In association with the transaction, Jason Arnoldy has been named chief executive officer of Recapture and Cary Ratterree has been named president. They co-founded Recapture in 2012.
Arnoldy says: "Since inception, Recapture's goal has been to provide a gas capture solution that offers a clear economic benefit
Atlas Copc is to acquire Henrob, a manufacturer of self-pierce riveting systems and rivets especially for the automotive industry.
As part of the transaction Atlas Copco intends to acquire all entities of Henrob with main facilities in the US and the UK.
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions including merger control clearances from the competent competition authorities.
Partner Dr Christian Haellmigk at CMS Hasche Sigle in Stuttgart is leading the competition team which advises Atlas Copco in Germany. The team also coordinates the corresponding merger control procedures in Austria (CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz) and the US (Drinker
Jeff Sica has launched Circle Squared Alternative Investments, a firm dedicated to providing financial advisors with access to alternative investments previously available only to institutions and ultra-high net-worth investors.
Sica’s approach to simplifying alternative market investing – investments that “touch the real economy” – is intended to give advisors and their clients greater confidence in their financial future.
In addition to offering access to alternative investments, Sica and his team will serve as coaches and mentors to advisors, helping them to better understand and communicate to their clients the role and advantages of alternative investments in a portfolio. Much
D5 Capital, the media and technology investment and M&A advisor, has secured a cash exit from WalkMe, the interactive online guidance and engagement platform.
D5 Capital’s investor network and super-angel Ran Tushia participated in WalkMe’s Series A investment round in 2012.
The exit has delivered investors a 3.5x gain over the investment period (88 per cent IRR).
Rupert Ashe, CEO of D5 Capital, says: “We are delighted to have participated in the growth of WalkMe, which is an innovative SaaS platform for guiding users through their online journeys. Our investors have enjoyed a very strong return, demonstrating once
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