Industrials
Equita sells Karl Eugen Fischer to Equistone
Equita has sold its majority stake in Karl Eugen Fischer (KEF), a German provider of cutting systems for tyres, to fellow private equity house Equistone Partners Europe.
Activa buys majority stake in listed Nexeya
Activa Capital has acquired a 57.9% stake in NYSE Euronext-listed Nexeya, alongside BPI France Investissement, and launched an offer for the remainder of the shares.
Italian VCs inject €2m into Personal Factory
IMI Fondi Chiusi has joined existing backers Vertis and Fondamenta in a €2m round for building materials company Personal Factory.
IK acquires Ampelmann
IK Investment Partners has bought a majority stake in Netherlands-based Ampelmann, a provider of motion technology systems and structures for the offshore energy sector.
MML Capital exits Clyde Bergemann
MML Capital Partners (MML) has sold its minority stake in Clyde Bergemann, a global provider of energy services.
Ambienta sells Tower Light
Italian environmental investor Ambienta has sold lighting tower producer Tower Light to listed US-based generator manufacturer Generac.
Perusa exits Kammann Maschinenbau in trade sale
Perusa has sold its 85% stake in printing services supplier Kammann Maschinenbau to corporation Koenig & Bauer.
Aheim makes second exit in one month
Aheim Capital has sold its portfolio company Ecronova Polymer, reaping a 40% IRR and a 2.5x return on its original investment.
Sycamore Aviation lands £750,000 investment
Durham-based Sycamore Aviation has received a ТЃ750,000 cash injection from a syndicate of investors led by regional firm FW Capital.
PE-backed Grohe circled by trade players
Plumbing fixtures manufacturer Grohe, which is owned by Texas Pacific Group Capital (TPG) and CSFB Private Equity, has attracted bids from a number of international trade players in an auction that could see the company fetch up to €4bn, according to...
PAI partners' Swissport to buy Servisair
PAI partners-owned Swissport is to wholly acquire UK-based aviation ground services provider Servisair.
CM-CIC, Seventure in €23m Global Bioenergies capital increase
Industrial biology company Global Bioenergies, listed on the NYSE Alternext Paris, has raised €23m through the placement of 927,419 new shares.
Omnes backs Eratome SBO
Omnes Capital has made a €15m capital injection into French refurbishment and construction firm Eratome, buying the asset from CM-CIC Capital Privé.
Siparex acquires Grontmij division for €71m
Private equity firm Siparex has acquired CEBTP, the French monitoring and testing business of Grontmij, for €71m.
Foresight backs Aerospace Tooling BIMBO
Foresight has invested ТЃ3.5m in the buy-in management buyout (BIMBO) of Scottish precision engineering company Aerospace Tooling.
EdRip backs DufyElec in SBO
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (EdRip) has acquired a minority stake in DufyElec from the company’s private equity owner Naxicap Partners.
Cinven to relinquish control of Frans Bonhomme
Frans Bonhomme, a French plastic pipes specialist owned by Cinven, is reportedly about to be taken over by its creditors.
Permira casts its net for Ewos
Permira has joined Bain Capital and Altor in the bidding war for Norwegian fish farmer Cermaqтs fish feed division Ewos.
Towerbrook acquires majority stake in Metallum
Towerbrook Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in Metallum Holding, a Luxembourg-domiciled metal refining and recycling company, from private equity firm Groupe Alpha.
Halder acquires Wback in MBO
Halder Beteiligungsberatung has backed the management buyout of German bun producer Wback.
CPE's Orège raises €20.1m in IPO
Orège, the French sludge treatment company backed by Climate Change Capital Private Equity (CPE) and Oraxys, has raised €20.1m in a flotation of 6.2 million new shares on the NYSE Euronext Paris, valuing the company at €57.7m.
IK mulling sale of Axtone
IK Investment Partners is reportedly planning to exit Axtone, a Polish rail freight buffer manufacturer.
Enterprise Ventures fund backs Centaur
The North West Fund for Venture Capital, managed by Enterprise Ventures, has backed a ТЃ750,000 funding round for Centaur Technologies alongside the Lancashire Rosebud Fund.
Carlyle picks up Oaktree's Chesapeake
Carlyle has acquired packaging company Chesapeake from Irving Place Capital and Oaktree Capital Management.