Arma Partners has acted as exclusive financial advisor to MSI Holding AB (AddSecure), a portfolio company of GMT Communications Partners and Viking Venture AS, on its sale to ABRY Partners. Headquartered in Stockholm, AddSecure is the Nordic market leader providing secure mission-critical M2M communications for security and other applications across a wide range of verticals including healthcare, public safety, transportation and utilities. The company manages a highly secure communications platform enabling the automated control and remote monitoring and management of sensors and other devices deployed in the field. Employing 120 people in Scandinavia, AddSecure has more than 100,000 business clients.

Brazos Private Equity Partners, a Dallas-based private investment firm, has sold Ennis-Flint – a specialist in pavement markings and traffic safety solutions – to an affiliate of Olympus Partners. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Headquartered in Thomasville, North Carolina, Ennis-Flint serves more than 4,000 government and private sector customers in more than 60 countries through 20 manufacturing facilities and sales offices located across five continents. During its time as an investor in the Company, Brazos has substantially grown and enhanced Ennis-Flint’s capabilities and performance, more than tripling corporate earnings during that period through acquisitions and organic

Mid-market private equity firm LDC has exited its investment in Workplace Systems, the provider of cloud-based scheduling software to the retail and hospitality sectors, in a sale to US-based WorkForce Software, for an undisclosed sum.   WorkForce, which is backed by US private equity firm Insight Venture Partners, is one the world’s leading providers of cloud-based workforce management software. Its solutions support hundreds of large and mid-sized companies with employee time and attendance, scheduling and absence management, helping them to reduce costs and meet compliance requirements while increasing efficiencies and employee satisfaction. Based in the UK and with offices in

Electra is to sell its holding in fiduciary services company, Elian, to global high-value trust and corporate services provider, Intertrust, in a GBP435 million deal.  Elian provides specialist services in: capital market solutions; private equity, real estate and fund administration; corporate services; private client solutions and employee benefit solutions from 15 offices across the globe. Headquartered in Jersey, Elian has over 600 professionals, all of who are specialists in their field, able to support or handle large, demanding or complex engagements and deliver high level of client service with a robust approach to increasingly complex regulation and compliance. The company

Mooreland Partners, the leading independent investment bank providing M&A and private capital advisory services to the global technology industry, today announced that it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to EZLegacy Ltd on its sale to IBM.  The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2016. The acquisition of EZSource further strengthens Mooreland Partners' position as a leading global M&A advisor on transatlantic, strategic transactions in the Enterprise Software segment. Headquartered in Israel, EZSource is an application discovery company that helps software developers quickly and easily understand and change mainframe code based on data displayed on a

Innova, together with other minority shareholders, have sold their stakes in Marmite – the leading European cast marble sanitary ware manufacturer – to Cranemere Ltd in one of the biggest deals in Poland this year. Innova purchased a controlling stake in Marmite from its founder Roger Johansson, in 2010. Under the leadership of CEO Robert Rutkowski and his team, the Company pursued its strategy of European expansion, product and material innovation and operating improvements, further extending its leadership position on the European market. During its holding period Innova helped steer through the transition from founder to a world-class management team.

Omnes Capital has sold its shareholding in the Sateco group to Naxicap Partners. The other shareholders – LFPI, Pechel Industries and Unexo – are also withdrawing at the same time.  The group’s management team led by François Guilloteau since 2007 is taking part in this new funding round.   Founded in 1953 and headquartered in Mirabeau (Vienne department), Sateco has positioned itself in the design, manufacture and marketing of concrete formwork and construction site safety equipment. Its range of products and services is built around three complementary businesses – the manufacture and sale of new construction products such as wall

Nordic Capital Fund VI (Nordic Capital) has agreed to sell COROB Group, a global provider of advanced tinting equipment to the paints and coatings industry, to WISE SGR SpA (Wise SGR).  COROB is a leading global provider of advanced tinting equipment to the paints and coatings industry.  Headquartered in San Felice sul Panaro, Italy, COROB has three development and manufacturing sites in Italy, India and Finland and employs approximately 530 employees. "Nordic Capital acquired COROB as a division of the Finland-based CPS Color in 2008, and separated COROB from the group’s colorant activities in 2013. With support from Nordic Capital,

NVM Private Equity (NVM) has sold Silverwing Group to Eddyfi NDT Inc. Silverwing develops and manufactures a wide range of Non Destructive Testing (NDT) solutions which are used to inspect storage tanks, vessels and pipework for corrosion, principally for the petrochemical industry.  The company’s corrosion mapping systems are used by many of the world’s leading oil companies to help ensure that their refining and storage facilities remain safe to operate. NVM’s funds have achieved a gross money multiple of 2 times on their original investment.  NVM first invested in Silverwing in 2012 acquiring the business from its founder. Silverwing has