Latest News
Gridiron Capital has promoted Kevin Jackson to Managing Partner alongside Tom Burger and Gene Conese. Jackson was previously part of the Firm’s investment committee and will continue in that capacity.
Jackson joined Gridiron Capital in 2010 as a Vice President and was promoted to Managing Director in 2012 and Senior Managing Director in 2017. He is a Director on the Boards of several of Gridiron Capital’s portfolio companies including Dent Wizard, Rough Country and Tokyo Joe’s and was a Director on previous Gridiron Capital portfolio companies Performance Health, McKenzie Sports Products and Electronic Systems Protection.
Burger, Co-founder and Managing
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Ply Gem common stock in a go-private transaction valued at approximately USD2.4 billion.
Ply Gem Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:PGEM), is a leading North American building products manufacturer.
Ply Gem’s board of directors unanimously approved the agreement, which provides for the payment of USD21.64 per share in cash to all holders of Ply Gem common stock. The cash purchase price represents a premium of approximately 20 per cent over Ply Gem’s closing stock price on January 30, 2018. Promptly following entry into the agreement, stockholders holding greater
HSBC Alternative Investments Limited (HAIL) has launched the HSBC Diversified Loan Fund, combining both loan investing and direct lending within a fully managed, alternative credit solution.
With circa USD550m raised so far, the first close for the fund was held on 31 October 2017 and the second one on 19 January 2018. The final close is planned no later than April 2018.
The fund is a diversified, core loan solution for client portfolios and will primarily invest in floating rate, senior secured credit instruments such as syndicated loans, as well as senior secured and unitranche loans to middle market
A number of significant natural resources transactions in the latter part of last year are representative of an upshift in deal activity across the sector, according to M&A specialist Tony Lane of offshore law firm Carey Olsen.
Lane, a partner in Carey Olsen’s Guernsey corporate team, has advised Bushveld Minerals Limited (Bushveld), Avnel Gold Mining Limited and Sandstorm Gold Ltd on recent deals, while Clinton Hempel, managing partner of Carey Olsen’s BVI office, advised Cora Gold on its recent listing on the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) AIM Market.
Lane says: “There appears to be a growing appetite amongst those
An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has acquired Town & Country Holdings (T&C), the parent company of Town & Country Living.
Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Lakewood, NJ, T&C is the recognised leader in home textiles specializing in table linens, kitchen textiles, rugs, and innovative solution-based home products. The company is a leading supplier of both licensed brands and private label programs to major retailers across the globe.
“David and Jeffrey Beyda have successfully positioned T&C as a true partner to its customers and licensors. We believe T&C’s existing product and service offerings provide a great foundation for
The Montreux Healthcare Fund has completed the purchase of Active Assistance, a provider of care and support for individuals with complex neurological conditions.
Active Assistance provides specialist care to individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI) and spinal cord injury (SCI) in domiciliary and residential settings. Active Assistance also owns the UK’s largest Case Management Group, serving clients with an acquired brain injury and other neurological conditions, throughout the care pathway.
The acquisition constitutes the second major transaction to complete within the last month for the fund, following the sale of The Regard Group earlier in the month. Active
One Equity Partners, a middle market private equity firm, is to acquire a majority stake in Media Solutions, a provider of media processing, delivery and TV service platforms, from Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC).
Ericsson will continue to own a 49 per cent stake in the Company. Additional terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Over the last several years, Ericsson has transformed Media Solutions’ products with a cloud-enabled, standards-based, integrated end-to-end roadmap. The overall mission has been to advance video service delivery with state-of-the-art infrastructure and software. At the same time, all products and operations have been upgraded
Global law firm Ropes & Gray has appointed Will Rosen as co-managing partner of its London office, to work alongside current office managing partner Mike Goetz. The appointment starts with immediate effect.
Rosen, who is also co-head of the firm’s international practice group, has been a partner at Ropes & Gray in London since 2011. He has over 20 years of experience advising private equity funds and corporate clients on M&A and private equity transactions.
Goetz has been managing partner of the firm’s London office since it launched in 2010. A US-qualified partner in the firm’s finance practice, he is
EyeSouth Partners has appointed Rex Adams to the Company as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). EyeSouth is a network of affiliated medical and surgical specialty eye care practices in Georgia and the broader Southeast, formed by private equity firm Shore Capital Partners.
Adams will work closely with the senior leadership team and physician partners to provide strategic guidance and operating expertise to the Company’s practice network in support of a patient-first culture, while also pursuing organic growth and affiliation opportunities to expand patient access.
Adams was most recently the Chief Executive Officer of Payspan, the nation’s leading provider of health
Digital transformation has spread like wildfire in recent years, with the internet and social media platforms redefining how businesses interact with their customers. As capital D, a London-based pan-European private equity manager, points out on its website, a 2016 Microsoft survey of 1,000 business leaders found that nearly half of business leaders believe their business model will no longer exist in five years.
That underscores both the pace of change but also the size of the challenge for all industries, as companies look to employ positive disruption to break free from the pack.
With that in mind, capital D’s mission
Special Reports
Featured
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
