Allocations
Avision Sales Group, an Osceola Capital portfolio company, has completed the acquisition of six additional companies: Angel-Cotton Associates, Apex Commercial Kitchen, Demlow Marketing, Mid-America Sales, Plexus Reps, and TRC Marketing.
These partnerships strengthen Avision’s presence in the Midwest and South, and expand coverage to the Central and Western regions of the US to establish a national footprint across 46 states.
Angel-Cotton Associates was founded in 1993 and services janitorial and hygiene manufacturers on the West Coast. Apex Commercial Kitchen was founded in 2005 and services foodservice equipment and supply manufacturers in the Midwest. Demlow Marketing was founded in 1958
Ogier has assisted Bristows, representing Waterland Private Equity Investments, in its GBP1.1 billion acquisition of the Priory Group from Acadia Healthcare Company.
The deal is the latest in Ogier’s work with significant private equity clients in relation to their acquisition structures.
Waterland, one of the best performing private equity firms globally, said it would combine the Priory Group with MEDIAN, Germany’s largest provider of rehabilitation and neurology treatments, to create “Europe’s leading rehabilitation and mental health services providers”. The combined group will be able to treat 260,000 patients across 570 clinics.
Ogier advised on the Jersey corporate and finance aspects
Two of the leading independent online comparison sites for personal finance in the Nordic region, Sambla and Advisa, are to merge.
Nordic Capital will be the majority owner of the combined company and will actively support it in the next phase of its expansion.
The combination of Sambla and Advisa creates one of the largest players in the Nordic region within loan intermediation, as both companies have strong platforms to continue to build on. Both companies help clients to compare loan terms and consolidate their loans, and thereby improve the terms and reduce costs. A combination creates new great opportunities
Fathom, a portfolio company of private equity firm CORE Industrial Partners (CORE), has acquired Summit Tooling, and Summit Plastics (collectively Summit), a precision tooling and injection moulding services provider, by CORE portfolio company Fathom.
Summit is the fourth add-on acquisition to the Fathom platform following CORE’s initial investment in 2018.
Founded in 1996, Summit provides high-quality plastic injection mould design, precision mould-making and close-tolerance injection moulding with a specialty in small-to-medium prototype injection moulds.
Utilizing a fleet of more than 30 machines, Summit primarily serves long-tenured customers in the medical and packaging end markets.
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BC Partners owned DentalPro, a private dentistry practice in Italy, is to acquire Vitaldent Italia from JB Capital.
The agreement will see DentalPro take control of Vitaldent’s 80 dental practices and integrate them into DentalPro’s network and brand. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
On completion, DentalPro will have cemented its position as the leading Italian dentistry group and will become the seventh largest private healthcare business in the country. The Group will be comprised of 260 dental centres spread across 14 regions in Italy and will employ approximately 2,000 staff including more than 1,500 dentists and
The Carlyle Group has agreed to increase its shareholding in VARO Energy, an energy company active in North West Europe.
The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval, sees Carlyle acquire the stake in VARO currently owned by Reggeborgh, a Dutch private investment company. Vitol Group’s shareholding in VARO remains unchanged.
Founded in 2012 with the acquisition of the Cressier Refinery (CH), VARO has grown rapidly to become one of the leading energy transition focused downstream businesses in North West Europe. Significant additions to the platform include the majority shares in the Bayernoil refineries, and a merger with Argos.
The Carlyle Group and Brighton Park Capital are to acquire minority stakes in Indegene, a Bangalore-headquartered enterprise healthtech solutions provider, for USD200 million.
The transaction, which is subject to customary regulatory approvals, consists of a secondary sale from existing shareholders of Indegene and a primary investment into the company.
Founded in 1998 by five first generation entrepreneurs, Indegene has emerged as the leading digital transformation partner to the global life sciences industry. With more than 3,000 employees across North America, Europe, China, Japan and India, Indegene provides technology platforms and commercialisation services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies.
Carey Olsen’s investment funds team in Guernsey, together with the Guernsey funds team of global investor services group IQ-EQ, have advised Queen’s Park Equity (QPE) on the successful launch of its debut fund Queen’s Park Equity Partners I, which closed at its hard cap of GBP185 million and was raised entirely during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
Kohlberg & Company (Kohlberg), a private equity firm specialising in middle market investing, has held the final closing of its ninth private equity fund, Kohlberg Investors IX (Fund IX) with USD3.4 billion in total commitments.
Alliance Etiquettes, a French specialist in label printing for the wine and spirits industry, has acquired Etiq’Etains, a specialist in the pewter label printing market in France.
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