Industrials
Xenon Private Equity VI closes on €184m
Fund will focus on northern Italian manufacturing assets
Ardian picks up Equistone’s stake in Spie Batignolles
Equistone first backed the company in 2003
Lonsdale acquires Suominen Flexibles for $20m
Loss-making Finnish packaging company bought in MBI
DBAG exits Homag Group in trade sale
Homag will continue to operate as an independent brand within Dürr AG
Equistone reaps 2.9x on sale of PD&MS to Inflexion
GP invested a total of £20m over four-year holding period
Beringea plugs into Chargemaster
Growth capital firm invests via ProVen venture capital trusts
Investcorp buys Bencis’s SPGPrints for €240m
Deal marks Investcorp's fifth acquisition in 12 months
3i’s SLR acquires CCA Environmental
SLR's £50m dry powder provides funding for fifth bolt-on
BGF in £5m Plastique investment
Company to make new hires following deal
Waterland exits P Lemmens in trade sale
Buyer purchases 90% stake in company
KKR buys majority stake in OEG Offshore
GP will draw on experience in oil & gas services firms
Qbic and PMV invest €500,000 in Pharmafluidics
The two firms split the funding equally
Investindustrial's Polynt bolts on CCP Composites
Acquisition gives group its first French production base
Parcom sells Hobré to AAC
AAC acquires majority stake in business
Ambienta buys IP Cleaning from Synergo
Synergo exits firm, having taken over portfolio of BS Private Equity
3i's Element Materials buys Accutek
Company is Element's seventh bolt-on
3i reaps 1.8x on Foster + Partners sale
Total proceeds from investment sit at £148m
Sun European Partners in Manoir Aerospace trade sale
Company has long history of private equity ownership
Deal in focus: Capricorn et al. invest €36m in Avantium
Company attracted funding from VC backers as well as corporates
CGS invests in Schaufler Tooling
Investment will fund acquisitions for die-casting business
Oak Hill sells Firth Rixson to Alcoa for $2.85bn
Deal structured as cash plus Alcoa stock
Nordic Capital sells Unifeeder stake to Danica Pension
GP acquired company in SBO from Montagu Private Equity
IMI Fondi Chiusi invests in T&P
Capital will enable company to open production facility in Turkey
Ardian acquires Italmatch from Mandarin
Italmatch senior management retains 12% stake