QuantiTech, a portfolio company of Sagewind Capital (Sagewind), has acquired Systems Engineering Group, (SEG) from Griffon Corporation. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, SEG is a leading provider of threat engineering and modeling and simulation services to the US Government, primarily supporting the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Missile Defense Agency, and Office of Naval Intelligence. SEG provides advanced, physics-based threat modelling, engineering, and analytics services in support of U.S. Government requirements for weapons and missile systems development, simulation, testing, and analysis. The management team and employees of SEG will continue with the business as

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is to acquire Wolseley UK, a specialist distributor of plumbing, heating, climate control, pipe and infrastructure & utility products in the United Kingdom, from Ferguson. Through a carve-out transaction for a net consideration of GBP308 million, Wolseley will become an independent company wholly owned by CD&R funds and management.  The transaction represents the twelfth building products and industrial distribution investment completed by CD&R over the last decade. In 2020, CD&R carved-out White Cap, a leading distributor of specialty construction products, from HD Supply and completed a partnership investment in SIG plc, a UK-listed building products distributor.

Specialist lawyers at Walker Morris have advised Eight Fifty Food Group the leading multi-protein food group controlled by CapVest Partners, on the acquisition of Carroll’s Cuisine from Carlyle Cardinal Ireland, for an undisclosed consideration.Carroll’s is a producer of cooked meats and convenience food in the Republic of Ireland. The business employs approximately 300 people in its site in Tullamore, Offaly. Carroll’s will be integrated into Eight Fifty’s pork division and will further expand Eight Fifty’s presence in the Republic of Ireland following the acquisition of M&M Walshe in June 2020. Carroll’s sliced cooked meat offering will be highly complementary to

Bascom Group has partnered with Capital Trust Group to acquire a Class A, 372,856 sq ft, absolute net-lease, build-to-suit research and development, manufacturing and testing facility and an adjacent 118,620 sq ft corporate office in the Milwaukee-area community of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin for USD100.0 million.JLL worked on behalf of Bascom Group to arrange the joint venture partnership with The Capital Trust Group. Additionally, working on behalf of the new partnership, JLL placed a 10-year, 65-percent, LTV, CMBS, fixed-rate USD63.7 million loan with Citigroup. This transaction marks Capital Trust Group’s first acquisition in the United States for over two decades. The