Perwyn-backed Miss Group acquires MMD Networks

Fast-growth web hosting business, Miss Group, has acquired Finnish based MMD Networks OY as part of its ongoing buy and build strategy MMD Networks primarily provides shared hosting and related services, with leading brands including mmd.net and verkko24.fi. MMD is the second acquisition that Miss Group has completed in the Finnish market, and complements the […]

Conglomerate Jardine Matheson offers to buy rest of group unit for $5.5 billion

Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd on Monday said it plans to buy the remaining 15% of Jardine Strategic Holdings Ltd that it does not already own for about $5.5 billion to simplify the structure of the sprawling Asian conglomerate. Singapore-listed Jardine Matheson, whose businesses include construction, aviation and automotive, has offered to pay $33 in cash […]

Greenbriar Equity Group acquires Oil Changers

Greenbriar Equity Group (Greenbriar) has acquired Oil Changers, one of the largest operators of quick lube facilities on the West Coast, from Trivest Partners LP. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Founded in 1984, Oil Changers provides fast oil change and related maintenance services to over 750,000 customers annually through its 56 […]

LDC-backed Onecom acquires 9 Group companies

Onecom, the UK’s leading business telecoms and cloud communications provider, has added thousands of fixed line and cloud customers and hundreds of channel partners to its portfolio in a deal with 9 Group As part of the transaction 9 Retail, which has over 5,000 telephony, hosted voice and on-premise customers, becomes a Onecom Group company […]

Equistone acquires Franke Water Systems

Funds advised by Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), one of Europe’s most active mid-market private equity firms, have agreed to acquire Franke Water Systems, a division of Franke Group and a leading European producer and supplier of kitchen and bathroom fittings for the residential, public and commercial sectors Thorsten Klapproth, former CEO of Hansgrohe SE and […]

Kennet Partners and Goldman Sachs to sell Nuxeo to Hyland Software

Kennet Partners Limited (Kennet) and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (Goldman Sachs) are to sell their co-owned portfolio company, Nuxeo, a content services platform and digital asset management (DAM) provider.  to Hyland Software Kennet and Goldman Sachs are expected to make a five-times return on their investment in Nuxeo. Kennet and Goldman Sachs acquired Nuxeo in […]

Limerston Capital-backed Axiom acquires Torchlight

Limerston Capital portfolio company Axiom International Limited (Axiom) has completed the acquisition of Torchlight Group Limited (Torchlight) London based Axiom is a specialist in the provision of strategic capacity building programmes, institutional and public sector reform, peace-building and national security development. It forms part of the larger Limerston Capital-backed AFA International, led by CEO and […]

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice announced today an agreement under which its portfolio company Capco

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice announced today an agreement under which its portfolio company Capco, a global management and technology consultancy, will be acquired by Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company. The transaction, expected to close in the second quarter of 2021, is valued at $1.45 billion. […]

Sun Capital Partners affiliate acquires Exadel

Private investment firm Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital) has completed the acquisition of Exadel, a founder-owned, global provider of digital software engineering solutions and services. Terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Exadel builds critical enterprise-wide platforms with a focus on accelerating digital transformation […]