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Fabory, a Netherlands-headquartered maker of nuts, bolts, nails and power tools has been sold by Dutch mid-market firm AAC Capital Partners to UK private equity house HgCapital for €345m in a secondary buyout transaction.
Ornis, a Paris-based provider of IT and telecoms services to business, has been sold by its venture capital backers to Euronext listed company Risc Group, an IT data protection provider.
Vox Mobili, a French company that specialises in software for mobile devices, has been acquired by Indian telecoms company OnMobile.
Baird Capital Partners Europe has sold TEAM BS, an Offenbach-based provider of short-term staffing solutions, for €71m to Randstad Group.
Cardsave, a UK provider of credit card terminals and services, has been sold by a private equity consortium to Exponent Private Equity in a £70m deal led by Clive Kahn, the former chief executive of Travelex.
UK buyouts giant Apax Partners has sold its minority stake Healthcare at Home, an in-home healthcare provider, to Hutton Collins, the debt and equity investment firm, in a deal worth more than £200m.
Firm: Siguler Guff & Co. Fund: Siguler Guff BRIC Opportunities Fund II Target: $1 billion Siguler Guff & Co. is readying a PPM to raise $1 billion by September for a fund of funds targeting the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China, with a heavy emphasis on India and China, a person familiar […]
On their first day of fundraising last September, partners of start-up Excellere Partners sat down with executives at five prospective limited partners in Chicago, including funds-of-funds giant Adams Street Partners, whose thumbs-up might well have influenced other investors. All five took a pass. Fortunately, the Denver-based spinout of KRG Capital went two-for-two the next day, […]
Target: Smith & Wollensky Price: $94.6 million Sponsor: Bunker Hill Capital Sometimes a strategic just can’t get it done alone. That may be one of the snapshot lessons from the recent announcement that Smith & Wollensky (Nasdaq: SWRG) has agreed to be taken private for $94.6 million in a deal led by Bunker Hill Capital. […]
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