European buyout house Doughty Hanson is to acquire approximately 40% of Grupo Hospitalario Quirón. The firm has entered into an agreement with the Cordón Muro family for the exchange of their controlling interest in Grupo Hospitalario Quirón into a company through which Doughty Hanson & Co V and the Cordón Muro family will control USP […]
Lion Capital is to acquire European optical retailer Alain Afflelou from funds managed by Bridgepoint and Apax Partners France and Altamir Amboise in a secondary buyout transaction. Founded in France in 1972, Alain Afflelou is a European optical franchisor with a network of nearly 1,100 optical retail stores across France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, […]
Huntsman Gay Global will be focusing on exits this year and has pushed fundraising plans to 2013.
Arsenal Capital Partners announced Monday two acquisitions: Plasticolors, a supplier of pigment and chemical dispersions, and Evonik Industries’ Colortrend global colorants business. The New York PE firm has created Chromaflo Technologies, a global pigment dispersion platform, that will be headquartered in Ashtabula, Ohio. Scott Becker will be CEO of Chromaflo. PRESS RELEASE Arsenal Capital Partners, […]
Amazon has spent 24 months crushing brick-and-mortar competitors and driving the company's share price through the roof. And they've gone and done it in a way that bankers hate to see--without much M&A.
OrthoAccel Technologies said Monday that it received a $10 million investment led by HealthpointCapital Partners. S3 Ventures also participated. The $10 million growth capital will fund the US launch of its AcceleDent, which reduces treatment time for wearing braces. PRESS RELEASE OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc. (“OrthoAccel” or “the Company”) today announced an investment of $10 million […]
CCMP Capital Advisors has acquired Milacron. Financial terms weren’t announced. Cincinnati-based Milacron is a plastics processing and industrial fluids company. BofA Merrill Lynch, RBC Capital Markets, Barclays and Keybanc Capital Markets provided debt financing. Goldman Sachs provided legal and financial advice to Milacron. PRESS RELEASE Milacron LLC announced today its acquisition by affiliates of CCMP Capital Advisors, […]
Australian business services firm Spotless Group agreed to a A$720 million ($752 million) takeover offer from Pacific Equity Partners, with the board saying on Monday it had bowed to shareholder pressure to accept an offer lower than it had sought, Reuters reported. The Spotless board accepted the buyout firm’s offer of A$2.71 a share, including […]
Cellphone maker Nokia is in talks to sell its UK luxury subsidiary Vertu, which hand makes some of the world’s most expensive mobile phones, Reuters reported Monday. Earlier the Financial Times reported that talks with private equity group Permira were at an advanced stage on a possible sale which would raise about 200 million euros […]
Credit card processor First Data Corp., a unit of private equity firm KKR, bought the remaining 30 percent stake in payment processor OmniPay from FEXCO, Reuters reported Monday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. (Reuters) – Credit card processor First Data Corp, a unit of private equity firm KKR, bought the remaining 30 […]