Warner Pacific, a leading employee benefits–focused General Agency backed by private equity firm Lovell Minnick, has acquired Beta Health Association’s (Beta Health) commercial dental health platform. Beta Health was a provider of group voluntary and contributory dental, vision, life, and disability products in Colorado prior to the acquisition.  This is the Company’s first acquisition since entering into a strategic partnership with Lovell Minnick Partners in January 2022. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

Inflexion has agreed to sell its investment in Goals Soccer Centres (Goals), a UK operator of small-sided football centres, back to the company’s founding management team. The announcement follows a record pace of divestments by Inflexion including the successful exits of Marley, Alcumus, Halo and Medivet. Glasgow-based Goals was founded in 1987 and operates more than 400 5-a-side and 7-a-side flood-lit football arenas across 44 locations, promoting health, fitness, friendly competition and community spirit. The exit comes after Inflexion’s investment allowed the founders to return to the business they had set up over 30 years earlier. 

An affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG) has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Virutex Ilko (Virutex), a cleaning products and kitchenware manufacturer in Latin America. The founding shareholders of Virutex will remain as significant shareholders in the Company alongside HIG Virutex’s current senior management team, led by CEO Juan Martin Monsalve, will continue to lead the Company. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Virutex, headquartered in Chile, is a provider of disinfecting, cleaning, and kitchenware products in Latin America, with direct operations in Chile, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, and Mexico. 

HIG Capital (HIG) has successfully completed the acquisition of EYSA Group (EYSA), a provider of smart mobility solutions. Terms of the transaction, which was led by the HIG Infrastructure Partners fund, have not been disclosed.   EYSA is headquartered in Madrid, Spain, with an international presence in the USA, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil. Leveraging on “ParkXplorer”, its proprietary IT platform, the Company has become a one-stop-shop for more than 100 cities across Spain, Latin America and the USA. EYSA has long term relationships with municipalities and private clients who seek comprehensive, automated solutions integrating all their mobility needs.

Graphite Capital, a UK mid-market private equity specialist, has sold Random42, an independent producer of scientific animation and digital media services, to The Lockwood Group (Lockwood). Based in Connecticut, USA, Lockwood is an industry leader in scientific-based medical communications for the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries.   Graphite led the buy-out of Random42 in 2017 and helped the company to expand the sales and marketing functions, broaden its client base and deepen client relationships. Graphite also invested in and helped optimise key operational functions within the business to provide greater scalability and worked with the company to increase its

Guardian Capital Partners (Guardian) has completed an investment in Precision Roll Solutions (PRS). Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. PRS is a full-service provider of highly-engineered precision roll solutions and related process componentry utilised within a variety of manufacturing environments. The Company’s products and process solutions support the production of thousands of end-use products spanning a wide array of consumer products, life sciences, and other industrial end-market applications. Guardian partnered with the PRS leadership team, who will continue to lead the business and retain a significant ownership stake in the Company.

Francisco Partners (FP), a global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology and healthcare businesses, has closed on the sale of Trellis Rx (Trellis), a technology-enabled specialty pharmacy services provider, to CPS Solutions (CPS), a provider of enterprise pharmacy solutions to hospitals and health systems. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.   In 2016, FP created and launched Trellis to help health systems enter the specialty pharmacy market. Today, Trellis partners with health systems to fund, build and operate hospital-based outpatient and retail specialty pharmacies under the health system’s brand.