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SWEDEN - Ratos-owned MCC acquires ACME
Ratos-backed Mobile Climate Control (MCC), a developer of climate comfort systems for specialty vehicles, has acquired the operations of US-based ACME Radiator and Air Conditioning in a deal valued at around SEK 200m, with a possible earn-out payment...
UK - LDC acquires Leasedrive Velo from Lyceum for £80m
LDC has acquired vehicle management group Leasedrive Velo in an ТЃ80m secondary buyout from Lyceum Capital.
UK - Charterhouse considers Lucite sale
Reports suggest that Charterhouse Development Capital is considering a sale of Lucite International, a manufacturer of acrylic-based products, which is thought to have an enterprise value of ТЃ1.3bn (USD 2.5bn).
UK - August completes £37m SBO of Accura Support Services
August Private Equity has backed the ТЃ37m secondary buyout of support services company Accura Support Services Ltd from Barclays Ventures.
NORWAY - Chapdrive secures NOK 30m from Northzone et al
Existing investors Northzone Ventures, Hafslund Venture and StatoilHydro Venture have invested a further NOK 30m (EUR 3.75m) into Chapdrive, a developer of patented systems for hydraulic transmission in wind turbines.
UK - CBPE backs £129m Warwick buyout
Close Brothers Private Equity (CBPE) has backed the ТЃ129m buyout of speciality chemicals business Warwick International from its US parent, Sequa Corp, which is owned by Carlyle Group.
Pensions Regulator oversteps the mark
The news that Duke Street Capital has been forced by the Pensions Regulator to inject ТЃ8m into the defined benefit scheme of DIY retailer Focus more than a year after the private equity firm sold the business should confirm the worst fears of the industry....
Mixed messages
Recent German legislation has been anything but welcoming to foreign investors. Both the Risikobegrenzungsgesetz and Aussenwirtschaftsgesetz are widely seen as a deterrent against what certain parts of the government seem to still regard as hordes of...
Q&A - Dr Henrik Fastrich, Orlando Management GmbH
Dr Henrik Fastrich is a managing partner at Orlando Management GmbH, which closed its Special Situations Venture Partners II fund (SSVP II) on EUR255m in November 2006. The fund focuses on complex spin-off situations or corporate carve-outs, succession...