Jonathan Marino

Best Doctors Inc., the tech-enabled healthcare services provider, has accepted a minority investment from Osaka, Japan-based Nippon Life Insurance Co. The transaction, from which terms were not disclosed, closed on April 5. Investment bank Harris Williams acted as exclusive financial advisor to the seller.

Dallas-based private equity firm Brazos Private Equity Partners has made a “significant” investment in Vision Source, a Texas-based provider of supply chain solutions for independent optometrists and dentists. Terms of the transaction were not publicized. Vision Source’s existing management will continue to run the company and retain a significant equity stake in the business.

DJO Global, a portfolio company of Blackstone Capital Partners, acquired Dr. Comfort from Merit Capital Partners. Specifics of the transaction were not disclosed. Merit Managing Director Tom Campion worked on the transaction.

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Millennium Technology Value Partners, the New York-based secondary shares investor, has led a consortium to buy a $70 million stake in ETF Securities Ltd., the UK-based provider of exchange traded products. The deal puts the company in the position to conduct a later funding round and possibly poises it for later deals, peHUB has confirmed […]

Texas-based energy company Dynegy Inc., after seeing a pair of sales—first to Blackstone, then to Carl Icahn—fall apart, has also hired a pair of firms to assist it in its restructuring. White & Case, the law firm, and Lazard Frères & Co., the financial advisor, were hired by Dynegy to help it consider debt restructuring options.

Best Erectors Inc., the Wisconsin-based commercial and residential properties installation and contracting services firm, has established a credit facility with Associated Bank, a Wisconsin bank. Madison Street Capital was financial advisor and placement agent. Specifics were not disclosed.

Florida-based Empire Investment Holdings completed the sale of portfolio company VITEC Solutions to Vitec Partners, a holding company run by a private investment group. Terms of the deal were not publicized. KPMG Corporate Finance LLC acted as the exclusive advisor to Empire during this process.

Private equity and VC investors have been pouring capital into Brazil as investment dollars going to Latin America rose more than six-fold over the prior year, to $17.2 billion in 2010, according to Venture Equity Latin America, sister publication to peHUB.com. But as investors seek to ready even more capital for deployment, it seems as if a Brazilian bubble is building, and it could be time to direct capital into other regions that also have sustainable growth potential. As Brazil’s economy expands, its currency has been subject to inflation, as the real has appreciated about 50% in two years’ time, driving up the price of assets....

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