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While the sale of the parent of the Chicago Tribune is drawing interest from Lee Mitchell of private equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC, a much smaller weekly paper in Boston plans to shut down for lack of a buyer.

Thoma Bravo has made a “substantial” investment in SRS Software. Financial terms were not announced. Montvale, N.J.-based SRS provides electronic health record technology and services for physicians.

Thoma Bravo said Friday it has acquired Crossbeam Systems. Financial terms weren’t announced. Boxborough, Mass.-based Crossbeam provides network security solutions.

Thoma Bravo has completed its buy of Deltek, a provider of enterprise software and information solutions for professional services firms and government contractors, for $1.1 billion. Deltek stopped trading on the Nasdaq. The seller was New Mountain Capital.

New Mountain, after a seven year hold, will exit Deltek.

The top 5 dividends so far this year from PE-backed companies include Attachmate, HCA and Clear Channel.

It’s US buyout funds that are scoring big returns for Florida State Board Administration (SBA), according to its figures through December 31, 2011.

Providence Equity Partners has raised upwards of $4.5 billion for its seventh fund, which has a target of $6 billion, and the firm will likely hold a final close in the third quarter, peHUB has learned.

Thoma Bravo earlier this week closed the sale of SonicWall to Dell. Financial terms weren’t announced. PRESS RELEASE Thoma Bravo, LLC, a leading private equity investment firm, announced today it has completed the sale of portfolio company SonicWALL, Inc., a leading provider of IT security and data backup and recovery solutions, to Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL). [...]