Aspen Surgical Products, a Caledonia, Mich.-based portfolio company of RoundTable Healthcare Partners, has acquire Colby Manufacturing Corp., a Tullytown, Penn.-based provider of fluid waste management and patient labeling systems. No financial terms were disclosed.
Industrial pipe supplier McJunkin, which is controlled by GS Capital Partners, agreed to merge with rival Red Man Pipe & Supply. Financial details weren't disclosed.
Elevation Partners, the private equity firm whose co-founders include industry veteran Roger McNamee and U2 frontman Bono, has agreed to buy the SDI Media Group, a provider of subtitling and language dubbing services to media companies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Elevation is buying Culver City, Calif.-based SDI from Warburg Pincus, which acquired the […]
Fast Search & Transfer, a Norway-based provider of search technologies, announced last week it has acquired AgentArts Inc., a developer of recommendation technology. Financial terms were not disclosed. San Francisco-based AgentArts has raised about $3.5 million in funding. Investors include Aegis Partners Proprietary, Amphion Capital Management and Tinished Corp. www.fastsearch.com www.agentarts.com
HM Capital Partners, a Dallas-based private equity firm, completed the previously announced sale of Swift & Company, the world's third-largest processor of fresh beef and pork products, to Brazil's JBS, Latin America's largest beef processor, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion.
DBG Eastern Europe II, a fund managed by Central and Eastern European private equity firm DBG, has acquired Tomplast, a Slovenian manufacturer of plastic-moulded components. www.dbgee.com
Industri Kapital has signed an agreement with CVC Capital Partners regarding the sale of DYWIDAG-Systems International. DSI is the global market leader in the development, manufacture and supply of post-tensioning and geotechnical systems to the construction and mining industries. The purchase price was not disclosed. The transaction is subject to customary anti-trust approvals.
Google has acquired internet security provider Postini of San Carlos, California, for $625 million. The sale represents an exit for a host of VCs, who in total invested $36 million: AltoTech Ventures, August Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Mobius Venture Capital, Pacifica Fund, Summit Partners, and Sun Microsystems. Summit Partners has been a Postini investor since […]
The publisher of American Lawyer magazine is set to be acquired for $630 million by Incisive Media, a British publisher backed by Apax Partners, the Associated Press reported. The seller is New York buyout shop Wasserstein & Co. Wasserstein & Co. formed American Lawyer Media Holdings in 1997, and by last year the company was generating annual revenue […]
A-Katsastus Oy, a Finnish vehicle inspection group owned by UK mid-market outfit Bridgepoint, has bought Autoveiligheid, a Belgian vehicle inspection company. The company recorded net sales of almost