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Vision Innovation Partners, which is backed by Centre Partners, a middle-market private equity firm focused on the healthcare and consumer sectors, has acquired Eyes of York, an ophthalmology practice in York, Pennsylvania.The acquisition further strengthens Vision Innovation Partners’ presence in the southern Pennsylvania market and expands its growing network of ophthalmology practices and ambulatory surgery centres in the Mid-Atlantic region.
“Eyes of York has been providing high-quality medical and surgical eye care for 25 years, and we are proud to join the Vision Innovation Partners family,” says Dr Denise M Visco, MD, Founder and Medical Director of Eyes of
Private equity firm WestBridge has promoted three members of its team, with Edward Minton and James MacLeay both being elevated to the role of senior investment manager, and Rebecca Sinclair promoted to investment manager.The promotions follow a productive 2020 for WestBridge, despite the challenging backdrop. Having completed the MBO of Bespoke Health & Social Care during the Spring lockdown, WestBridge ended the year backing the £46.5m MBO of Eque2, its sixth investment from WestBridge II.
Founding partner, Valerie Kendall, says: “We are delighted to recognise the valuable contribution of our three colleagues and reward their achievements. Each of them has
CenterOak Partners (CenterOak), a Dallas-based private equity firm, and its affiliate CenterOak Equity Fund I, have sold Service Champions, a residential HVAC and plumbing services company in the Western US. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Based in Orange County, CA, Service Champions is a provider of essential home services specialising in heating, air conditioning and plumbing services. The Company employs over 850 technicians that perform over 275,000 service jobs annually across a growing branch network. As the largest residential service provider in the Western US, Service Champions goes to market via several iconic local trade names
Infinedi Partners (Infinedi), a private equity firm focused on founder-owned businesses, has completed an investment in BWG Strategy (BWG), a provider of market intelligence, data and other information to investment management and corporate clients through a subscription-based business model. Clients use this information to enhance their decision-making processes and to make principal investments.
Bill Williams, Founder and CEO of BWG, says: “Our partnership with Infinedi will allow BWG to accelerate its core mission of offering our clients an ever-expanding portfolio of high-quality primary research and data. In addition, we plan to expand our product, sector and geographic offering in response
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
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has sold its portfolio company Jonathan Engineered Solutions (JES) to JLL Partners.JES, based in Irvine, California, is the global market leader in the design and manufacturing of highly engineered steel and aluminium mechanical components for defence, commercial and industrial end markets. With a legacy that spans nearly 70 years, the Company’s ruggedised enclosure solutions protect operating systems in aircraft, naval ships and submarines for the U.S. military and its allies.
Micah Levin, a Senior Managing Director at LLCP, says: “The JES investment has been very successful for LLCP,
Milbank has appointed Andrej Wolf as a partner in its Global Corporate Group in London, further expanding the firm’s international private equity and M&A capabilities.Wolf has particular expertise in advising some of the world’s most sophisticated organisations on private equity and related transactions. Across a variety of sectors and geographies, he has counselled a range of global private equity houses, financial sponsor clients and their portfolio companies on leveraged buyouts and acquisitions, growth capital and minority investments, secondaries and disposals, carve-out transactions, as well as complex cross-border mergers. He has advised major private equity players, including Accel-KKR, Apax Partners, EW
London-head-quartered asset management consultancy, MJ Hudson, has acquired fund and portfolio performance specialist PERACS. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
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
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