EQT Infrastructure has agreed to acquire leading Spanish car park operator Acciona Aparcamientos from Spanish infrastructure and renewable energy group Acciona S.A. The investment is the first for EQT Infrastructure in Spain. Acciona Aparcamientos is a leading operator in the Spanish car park sector managing 29 car parks in Spain and Andorra. All car parks are operational and have a total of around 16,000 spaces. The portfolio is well spread geographically throughout mainland Spain, reaching also the Canary and Balearic islands. The expected revenues for 2011 amount to EUR 22 million. The new Board of Directors of Acciona Aparcamientos will

Border Foods, Inc, a portfolio company of Ares Capital Corporation (Ares Capital), has been sold to strategic buyer Mizkan Americas, Inc, a subsidiary of Japan-based Mizkan Group Corporation (Mizkan). Harris Williams & Co acted as the exclusive advisor to Border Foods in the transaction, which closed on May 12, 2011.    “Mizkan has utilised strategic acquisitions of strong segment leaders to diversify its position across existing channels and strengthen its business.  Border Foods leadership in the growing market for Hispanic foods offers Mizkan new opportunities to expand the global presence of its retail, branded, food ingredients and foodservice business,” says

Specialist European real estate private equity firm Peakside Capital has acquired 80 Hammersmith Road, London from Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society on behalf of the Peakside Real Estate Fund I (PREF I). The building, located in the heart of Hammersmith, currently comprises 41,574 sq ft of net lettable area over six floors and has 41 parking spaces. Peakside will take vacant possession on completion of the acquisition and will execute an extensive reconfiguration plan. A planning application has been submitted to reposition the existing building to a Grade A office standard, with a view to releasing it to the occupational

European private equity firm, Cinven, is to sell in-vitro allergy diagnostics company Phadia Group to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc for an enterprise value of EUR2.47 billion.   Having identified the diagnostic testing sector as a segment with strong growth characteristics, Cinven’s Healthcare team led the acquisition of Phadia in early 2007 for an enterprise value of EUR1.285 billion. Phadia’s position as the market leader in in-vitro allergy testing and European leadership in auto-immune testing provided the opportunity to create significant value through a programme of targeted investment in people, products and geographic expansion into previously under-developed, markets outside Europe. Since

Actis, the pan-emerging markets private equity investor, has reached an agreement with GAS NATURAL FENOSA, a leading multinational in the gas and electricity sector, to acquire a group of companies dedicated to the transportation and supply of electricity to 1.4m customers in Guatemala in a transaction worth USD345m plus assumed debt. The core of the business lies in its two electricity distribution and supply companies, DEOCSA and DEORSA; together these businesses supply electricity to 20 of the 22 departments in Guatemala, covering 94% of the land mass and serving the country’s large rural population.   GAS NATURAL FENOSA has built

Earlybird Venture Capital has sold its portfolio company BridgeCo Inc to SMSC, a semiconductor company enabling content rich connectivity systems. BridgeCo’s JukeBlox technology connects tablets, smartphones, PCs, Macs and other consumer electronics products to a new world of audio entertainment. Earlybird invested in BridgeCo in 2000 as the company’s first institutional investor. In addition to providing BridgeCo with capital in the early stage of the company’s development, Earlybird also worked alongside the seasoned management team to identify the best sources of later stage capital requirements and aided them in their successful internationalization strategy. With the industry’s only system-on-a-chip (SoC) and

Exponent Private Equity has acquired Pattonair, the supply chain division of Umeco plc. Pattonair is a leading international provider of value-added distribution and supply chain outsourcing services to customers in the aerospace and defence market, specialising in the supply of small and medium value components.  Customers include Rolls-Royce plc, BAE Systems, Safran Group, Parker Aerospace, Goodrich, Thales Aerospace, Turbomeca and Eaton. Pattonair now has over 680 employees, plans to establish its head office in the UK within its Derby facility, with other facilities based in France, Italy, Germany, Singapore, China and the US. For the year ended 31 March 2010,