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Nordic Capital, a private equity firm based on the island of Jersey, off the coast of Normandy, France,has acquired a privately owned specialist diagnostics company from its founder for an undisclosed amount of funding. The company, The Binding Site, is based in Birmingham, U.K.. PRESS RELEASE: Nordic Capital Fund VII (“Nordic Capital”) has acquired The Binding Site Corporation […]
Sun European Partners, the European advisor to the U.S. private equity firm Sun Capital Partners, is announcing that one of its affiliates has acquired the plastic packaging company Britton Flexibles from HSBC. Britton produces everything from cereal box liners to banking coin bags, and it’s been owned by HSBC Private Equity since a 2008 management buyout. […]
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.
Fresh off the success of the HCA IPO, the Blackstone Group is reportedly looking to take Vanguard Health Systems public. Nashville-based Vanguard, a hospital operator, may file with the SEC later this month, according to Bloomberg. Vanguard may file for the IPO without underwriters, the story said.
NEW YORK–At nearly every private equity, M&A or investment banking conference one thing remains constant — the majority of speakers in crisp gray suits sitting up on stage are men. That doesn’t seem to be changing. The number of women in senior levels of finance have been shrinking in recent years and businesswomen say they […]
Kirkland & Ellis, a 1,500-attorney law firm with offices around the globe has added capital markets attorneys Ward McKimm and William Burke to its London office. Burke was already in the employ of Kirkland & Ellis, working out its Chicago headquarters; McKimm joins from the London office of Shearman & Sterling LLP, where he led the […]
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.
Private equity firm 3i Group has invested 28 million pounds ($45.7 million) in Sheffield-based Go Outdoors, the UK’s largest retailer of camping equipment, tents, outdoor clothing and footwear. The firm took a “significant minority stake” in Go Outdoors, it said in a written statement. The founders and management of GO Outdoors continue to hold significant stakes, as does existing investor YFM Equity Partners.