Ridgemont Equity Partners and Post Oak Energy Capital have announced a $100 million capital commitment to the management team of Titan River Energy. Titan River’s management team will be co-investing alongside Ridgemont and Post Oak. No other financial terms of the transaction were disclosed. Titan River is a newly formed oil and gas company headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, with an additional office in The Woodlands.

JAM Distributing Co., a distributor of lubricants, fuel and other products, has been acquired by North Carolina-based private equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners. Specifics on the deal were not publicized. JAM is based in Houston.

AccentHealth, a health education television waiting room network, has acquired the patient education wallboard business of Havas’ Impact division. AccentHealth is based in New York City and Tampa, FL and is owned by M/C Partners, Ridgemont Equity Partners and senior management.

Yeatts Anderson and Tim Dillon were each promoted to vice president at Ridgemont Equity Partners. Ridgemont is a middle market and growth equity firm firm based in Charlotte, N.C.

Kansas City, Missouri-based communications company Unite Private Networks (UPN) is acquiring a fiber-optic network from Zito Media for an undisclosed amount of money. The network covers southeast Nebraska. PRESS RELEASE: Unite Private Networks (UPN) today announced an agreement with Zito Media for UPN to acquire an 838 route mile fiber-optic network covering southeast Nebraska and [...]

Lower-rated borrowers are seizing the opportunity to amend and extend their debt facilities while lenders are willing to accept them, sister magazine Buyouts reports.

GE Capital’s TMT group has provided a $380 million credit facility to Lightower Fiber Netwrosk. Pamlico Capital, M/C Venture Partners and Ridgemont Equity Partners own Lightower. Boxborough, Mass.-based Lightower is a metro fiber network and bandwidth service company. PRESS RELEASE GE Capital’s Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT) financing business today announced it served as administrative [...]

Investment firms are being spun out of banks left and right—some, to keep companies in compliance with the new requirements imposed on banks via Dodd-Frank. peHUB has been tracking some of the spin-outs seeking capital, and some others, that have not yet needed to fundraise—but soon, might. While the fundraising market has been generous to some private equity firms, other PE shops could face difficulty bringing in capital absent of their big-brother LPs. Only time will tell….

Charlotte, N.C.-based buyout shop Ridgemont Equity Partners bought a majority stake in Aurora Parts & Accessories, a distributor of aftermarket and replacement semi-trailer parts and accessories. Financial terms of the deal were not released. Aurora is based near Indianapolis. NXT Capital, DE Shaw Direct Capital Portfolios and BB&T Capital Partners Mezzanine Fund II provided financing for the deal.

Middle-market buyout shop Ridgemont Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in Gallus Biopharmaceuticals, a biologics contract manufacturing company based in St. Louis, Mo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ridgemont Equity Partners is a Charlotte, N.C.-based private equity firm.