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Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising companies at the lower end of the middle market, has partnered with Altima Dental Centres, one of the largest dental services organisation in Canada. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Toronto, Altima’s clinic network includes offices across six provinces in Canada. Altima-affiliated practices have an excellent reputation for providing high-quality dental services and always putting patients first. Altima's strategy is to continue growing through affiliation with other dental offices throughout Canada.
“Altima is well known throughout the Canadian market for second-to-none care, top notch providers
Man Group has completed its previously announced acquisition of Aalto Invest Holding (Aalto).
Luke Ellis (pictured), CEO of Man Group, says: “We are delighted to have completed the acquisition of Aalto, which is a key step in the development of Man Global Private Markets, our new investment engine for private asset classes, and in the ongoing diversification of Man Group. The acquisition of Aalto represents an attractive opportunity for clients, who will have access to longer term investment strategies offering a complementary risk reward profile to our current products.”
Aalto will be a central component of the newly formed
Israeli high-tech companies closed 104 deals, totalling USD10 billion in exits, during 2016, according to the latest IVC-Meitar Exits Report. The figure includes 93 M&A deals with a total value of nearly USD8.8 billion including the USD4.4 billion Playtika acquisition.
Eight additional buyouts generated USD1.22 billion while three small IPOs garnered USD15.1 million.
The acquisition of Playtika by Chinese online gaming company Giant Interactive Group, for USD4.4 billion, was the largest deal of the year. According to the report’s editors, since it accounted for about 50 per cent of total M&A, and skews the data, it has been omitted from
French onshore wind specialist ENGIE has strengthened its partnership with Crédit Agricole Assurances by absorbing the onshore wind portfolio of MAÏA EOLIS, acquired in May 2016, into the two groups’ joint venture FEIH.
Under the agreement, the wind farms operated by MAÏA EOLIS – representing total installed capacity of 267 MW – will be transferred to FEIH, the joint venture established by ENGIE and Crédit Agricole Assurances. Since its creation in 2013, the partnership has allowed ENGIE, which had installed wind power capacity of over 1,700 MW at the end of 2016, to reduce its net debt by around EUR400
Enstar Holdings has acquired Dana Companies (Dana Companies) from Dana Incorporated (Dana) for a total purchase price of USD91.5 million.
Dana is a world leader in the supply of highly engineered drivetrain, sealing, and thermal-management technologies for vehicles. Dana Companies holds liabilities associated with personal injury asbestos claims and environmental claims arising from its legacy manufacturing operations. Dana Companies’ assets include, among others, insurance rights related to coverage against these liabilities and marketable securities.
Enstar financed the transaction through a drawing under its revolving credit facility.
Dominic Silvester, Enstar’s Chief Executive Officer, says: “The Dana Companies acquisition complements our
Platinum Equity has completed the acquisition of the Foam Plastic Solutions (FPS) and Flow Control Devices (FCD) businesses of Broadway Industrial Group Limited.
FPS is a leading supplier of protective packaging, insulation and component products to the consumer electronics, automotive, medical and other end-markets. FCD supplies high-performance parts such as valves, fittings, sensors, and related components used in diverse end-applications.
Platinum Equity is a Los Angeles-based global private equity firm focused on acquiring businesses that can benefit from the firm's operational expertise. The acquisition was led by Platinum Equity's Singapore office.
Jacob Kotzubei, the partner in Platinum Equity's Los Angeles
Eolus North America has signed an agreement to acquire a 60 per cent membership interest in Wind Wall Development, from ZCF Wind Wall.
The company has also placed an order with Vestas securing wind turbine components sufficient to secure the ability to capture the full value of the PTC for the first 40 MW of its project pipeline.
Eolus North America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eolus Vind AB (publ) Sweden, is pleased to announce that it has joined forces with ZCF Wind Wall LLC in a joint venture to develop and construct a wind farm near Tehachapi, CA. The joint
Air Liquide has completed the sale of Aqua Lung, a specialist in personal aquatic equipment for recreational and professional use, to European private equity firm Montagu Private Equity.
Montagu will support Aqua Lung’s next phase of growth and enable the company to deliver on its strategy.
Air Liquide is focused on its Gas & Services activities following the Group’s acquisition of Airgas, as well as on the implementation of its company program NEOS for the 2016-2020 period.
The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Puji Capital and Galaxy Holdings have formed a joint venture to create a new economic and business region in Shenzhen to bridge and innovate cross-border business between China and the West through investment and business support.
The new joint venture platform is aiming to spark innovation and encourage cross-border business cooperation and investment by providing both direct investments as well as the professional services for global companies expanding in China and other key, high-growth markets in Asia.
The joint venture platform will target and invest into more than 10 small to medium sized Western growth companies in each of the
Eurex Global Securities (EGS) has signed an exclusive agreement with DKG Group for trading on its new advanced and streamlined dark pool trading platform, the European Global Trading Platform (ETGP).
Dark pool trading began to emerge in early 2000s, mainly thanks to the nature of private equity trading and the fact that it allows large institutional investors to buy a large number of stocks without attracting the attention of other public investors. EGS recently announced the agreement with DKG, and will start stock trading activities at the end of this year as part of a global expansion of the stock
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