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Infinio, a provider of downloadable storage performance software, named entrepreneur Steve Papa chairman of the Infinio board of directors. Papa is best known as the founder of Endeca Technologies, acquired by Oracle in 2011 for $1.1 billion. Infinio is based in Cambridge, Mass., and is backed by investors including Highland Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Vance Street Capital, a Los Angeles-based buyout shop, has acquired Smart Electronics & Assembly Inc. Based in Anaheim, Calif., Smart Electronics is a provider of electronic circuit boards, sub-assemblies, modules to the defense, commercial aerospace, industrial and homeland security markets. The deal is the first add-on acquisition for Secure Communication Systems. Terms of the deal were not released.
DeMet’s Candy, a company backed by private equity fund Brynwood Partners V L.P., has sold the TrueNorth brand to B&G Foods. Terms were not disclosed. The deal closed on May 6.
North Carolina-based Plexus Capital, a firm focused on providing growth capital to lower middle market businesses, has raised $150 million from LPs, the firm announced Friday. The capital will be combined with leverage from the Small Business Administration in the same amount to create Plexus Fund III, with total available investment capital of $300 million, the firm said.
Klöckner Pentaplast, a producer of rigid plastic films for packaging, has priced 225 million euros in Senior PIK notes, the company announced Friday. Klöckner Pentaplast is a portfolio company of SVP Global. Proceeds will be used to partially refinance Preferred Equity Certificates that were issued when the company was acquired by a group led by SVP Global in a June 2012 recapitalization, the company said.
Checkpoint Systems Inc. has completed the previously-announced sale of its CheckView business unit to Platinum Equity, a California-based private equity firm. The sale includes all continuing business operations and assets associated with the U.S. and Canadian retail security-oriented CheckView organization. Financial terms of the deal were not released.
Publicly traded CTPartners Executive Search Inc. has acquired Augmentum Consulting Ltd., a executive search firm based in London. Previously, Augmentum had been operating as Amrop Augmentum. Terms of the deal were not released.
Gridiron Capital has invested in Tokyo Inc., which operates the casual restaurant chain Tokyo Joe’s. Specifics of the investment were not released. Tokyo Joe’s is based in Denver. Gridiron Capital is based in New Canaan, Conn.
Dash Multi-Corp. has acquired Pathway Polymers, a leading supplier of polyurethane tire fill material and equipment, buying the company from the Vita Group. Dash is a platform portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners. Terms were not released.
Management consulting firm A.T. Kearney announced that Robert Haas will lead its private equity practice in the Americas. Haas is based in A.T. Kearney's New York office. Haas began his career with A.T. Kearney in 1996 and was elected to partner in 2003.
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