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Piramal Healthcare, a Mumbai-based pharmaceuticals company, has agreed to acquire the Burlington, Mass.-based healthcare data provider Decision Resources Group from Providence Equity Partners for approximately $635 million. PRESS RELEASE: Piramal Healthcare Limited, an innovation led company, has agreed to acquire Decision Resources Group a US based company in the healthcare information segment, from Providence Equity […]
Pearson, the London-based learning company, is today announcing the acquisition of Certiport from Spire Capital Partners for $140 million in cash. Founded in 1997 in Utah, Certiport develops, markets and distributes certification exams and practice tests of IT and digital literacy skills PRESS RELEASE: Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, is today announcing the acquisition of […]
JBI, a Niagara Falls-based fuel company that transforms unsorted, unwashed waste plastic into clean, low sulphur fuel, is raising $10 million of equity capital via a private placement of unregistered securities at $0.80 per share. The investment group consists of unnamed “prominent private equity investors, venture capitalists, investment bankers and accomplished corporate executives.” PRESS RELEASE: JBI, […]
SilkRoad, a Chicago-based company focused on online human resources and “social talent management,” has raised a $35 million Series C financing round. Investors in the round include new investors Keating Capital and NTT Finance. Existing investors including Intel Capital, Crosslink Capital, Foundation Capital, Azure Capital and Tenaya Capital also joined in the round. Since 2003, […]
Berlin Packaging, a Chicago-based container and closures supplier has acquired Lerman Container of Naugatuck, Conn., for an undisclosed amount. Berlin Packaging, which is majority owned by Investcorp, an alternative investment management firm. Lerman marks the company’s third strategic acquisition since 2010, when it acquired Pittsburgh-based All-Pak and Chicago-based Continental Packaging Solutions. PRESS RELEASE: Berlin Packaging, a leading […]
Bangalore-based engineering design and innovation firm, Jed-i, has raised an undisclosed funding from Accel Partners. PRESS RELEASE: Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Monday, May 14, 2012 — (Business Wire India) Jed-i, dedicated to the creation of gifted engineers, announced that it has raised investment from Accel Partners. Jed-i is pioneering conceptual engineering delivered through the flipped class […]
Cameco, Canada’s top uranium miner, will pay $136 million to buy nuclear fuel broker Nukem Energy GmbH from private equity firm Advent International. Cameco is based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. PRESS RELEASE: Cameco (TSX:CCO) (NYSE:CCJ) announced today it has signed an agreement with Advent International to purchase NUKEM Energy GmbH (NUKEM), one of the world’s leading […]
Medical device company Smith & Nephew has launched a spinoff in Durham, N.C., called Bioventus. The company was formerly Smith & Nephew’s biologics division.Private equity firms Essex Woodlands, Pantheon Ventures, Spindletop Healthcare Capital, Alta Capital Partners, Ampersand Capital Partners, and White Pine Medical, are investing $118M to acquire 51% of Bioventus. PRESS RELEASE: Essex Woodlands […]
Pure Biofuels del Peru management, along with New York-based private equity fund manager Pegasus Capital Advisors, have agreed to acquire Lima-based Pure Biofuels. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed. PRESS RELEASE: Pure Biofuels del Perú, SAC (the “Company” or “Pure Biofuels”) management is pleased to announce the acquisition and recapitalization of Pure Biofuels in […]
Partners Group, the Zug, Switzerland-based investment firm, has acquired Trimco International Holdings on behalf of its clients, for an undisclosed sum. Trimco, founded in 1979, is an Asia-based global provider of a full range of garment labels, tags and trimming products to blue chip global apparel companies. PRESS RELEASE: Partners Group, the global private markets investment […]