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The Riverside Company has acquired Rutland Plastics, a provider of screen printing inks for the apparel industry and plastisol compounds used in coating, moulding and other applications for automotive and industrial customers.
Rutland has more than 1,100 active ink customers globally. The company’s customers and end-users range from global apparel leaders and large ink distributors to local print shops. Rutland was founded in 1962 and is based in Pineville, North Carolina.
“Rutland’s deeply loyal customers are a testament to the company’s premium products and strong technical support and customer service,” says Riverside partner Tim Gosline. “The company serves
Jarden Corporation is to acquire Yankee Candle Investments from a fund managed by private equity fund Madison Dearborn Partners for approximately USD1.75bn in cash.
The transaction will extend Jarden’s portfolio of consumer brands in niche, seasonal staple categories, while creating opportunities in cross-selling, broadening the global distribution platform, and deepening Jarden’s talent bench.
Upon closing the transaction, Jarden would have pro forma net sales and adjusted EBITDA of approximately USD7.7bn and USD1.0bn, respectively, for the 12 months ended 30 June 2013. As an addition to Jarden’s branded consumables segment, Yankee Candle will further balance Jarden’s portfolio, expanding this
Platinum Equity has closed Platinum Equity Capital Partners III, a buyout fund focused on investing in businesses that can benefit from Platinum’s operational expertise.
The fund closed on its target size of USD3,750,000,000 in capital commitments. It is the successor to a USD2,750,000,000 fund that closed in 2008 and a USD700,000,000 fund that closed in 2004. Prior to the first fund, Platinum invested more than USD525,000,000 in founders capital.
"We are excited about the continued support for our firm’s growth and its future," says Tom Gores, founder and chief executive officer of Platinum Equity. "Our job will be
Private equity firm Aquiline Capital Partners has completed its previously announced acquisition of Genworth Wealth Management for USD412.5m from Genworth Financial.
The acquisition includes both of Genworth Wealth Management’s businesses: Genworth Financial Wealth Management (GFWM), an investment management and services platform, and Altegris, a provider of liquid alternative investments.
Private equity fund Estancia Capital Partners has acquired a minority interest in Equinoxe Alternative Investment Services, joining XL Group as a strategic investor in the firm.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Equinoxe is a boutique full-service alternative investment fund administration company founded by a group of hedge fund administration professionals, with over USD12.5bn of assets under administration (AUA) currently from over 150 alternative investment funds.
"Equinoxe is a premier service provider within the global alternative investment fund administration space led by a proven management team that has previously successfully built two similar service businesses," says
Kaiima Bio-Agritech, an Israel-based seed-and-breeding technology company, has raised more than USD65m in equity from three new investors as well as some current ones.
The three new investors are: Horizons Ventures, which manages the private investments of Li Ka-shing in Internet and technology globally; the International Financial Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group; and Infinity Group, the cross-border, China-focused, private equity fund and innovation platform.
Existing investors include DFJ, DFJ-Tamir Fishman, Mitsui, KPCB, Oberlee and Musea Ventures.
Kaiima’s proprietary Enhanced Ploidy technology (EP) multiplies the plant’s genome without compromising its integrity. This non-GMO technology
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) and Hermes have acquired Zouk Capital’s shareholding in Anesco, a UK-based energy efficiency solutions company.
Zouk Capital, the private equity and infrastructure fund manager specialising in the clean economy, was a founding shareholder in Anesco in 2010 and has made a significant contribution to the growth of the company. The transaction was led by SEP.
Anesco was recently announced as national winner of the BVCA Management Team of the Year Award. The Reading-based company had turnover of GBP55.1m and a profit of GBP3.4m before tax.
With the ongoing support of SEP and Hermes,
International law firm Taylor Wessing has advised Powa Technologies on a private placement of shares to raise an aggregate amount of approximately USD76m.
The transaction represents one of the largest investments in an early stage UK technology company in recent years.
Powa Technologies, which was set up by London based tech entrepreneur Dan Wagner in 2007 and only began trading two years ago, creates technology allowing consumers and businesses to make transactions through mobile devices. Its PowaPIN device allows credit and debit card payments to be taken on the go through a mobile phone app for iPhone, iPad,
Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage array company, has closed an oversubscribed USD150m series E funding round with institutional investors – the single largest private funding in the history of the enterprise storage industry.
Led by T Rowe Price, Tiger Global Management and other public market investors, with participation by its previous venture capital investors Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures, the new funding brings the company’s total capital raise to USD245m and puts the all-flash storage pioneer on-track for a future initial public offering (IPO).
Pure Storage will use the new
Maven Capital Partners has made a further investment in existing portfolio business Fletcher Shipping.
Maven Client Funds, alongside the Scottish Loan Fund (SLF), which is managed by Maven, have provided a GBP5.5m package to part fund the acquisition of a fourth and fifth Platform Support Vessel (PSV), the FS Pisces and FS Sirius.
Established in 2007, employing around 100 people, Fletcher owns and operates PSVs in the North Sea. These vessels support the offshore oil and gas industry by transporting everything an oil rig needs to function 365 days a year including food, consumables, production/drilling equipment, replacement parts
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