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Godspeed Rockets to Fund II Close

May 26, 2023

Godspeed Capital has held a final and oversubscribed close of Godspeed Capital Investment Program II LP (Fund II) with $250 million in capital commitments. Fund II was raised in less than six months and exceeded…...

Pacific Avenue’s First Fund Closes at $500 Million

May 5, 2023

Pacific Avenue Capital Partners has held a final, oversubscribed, and hard cap close of its first fund, Pacific Avenue Fund I LP, with $500 million of capital commitments. Fund I was backed by a range…...

Kian’s Third Fund Closes at $400 Million

May 2, 2023

Lower-middle-market investor Kian Capital Partners has held a final, oversubscribed, and hard cap closing of Kian Growth Partners III LP with $400 million of capital. The new fund was supported by both new and existing…...

Genstar Capital Hard Caps Fund XI

May 2, 2023

Genstar Capital has held a first, final and hard cap closing of Genstar Capital Partners XI LP with $12.6 billion of committed capital. In addition, through Genstar Opportunities Fund XI LP, the firm raised an…...

O2 Closes Fund IV

April 20, 2023

O2 Investment Partners has closed its latest fund, O2 Investment Partners Fund IV LP (Fund IV), with an oversubscribed $445 million in capital. O2’s new fund received strong support from both new and current institutional…...

Warren Hits Hard Cap on New Fund

April 18, 2023

Warren Equity has held an above target, hard cap, and oversubscribed final closing of its latest fund, Warren Equity Partners Fund IV LP and Warren Equity Partners Fund IV-A LP (together WEP IV), with more…...

Midwest Growth Closes Fund III

April 18, 2023

Midwest Growth Partners (MGP) has held an above-target close of its third and largest fund with $170 million in capital. The firm began fundraising in the second quarter of 2022. Midwest Growth Partners invests from $500,000 to $20 million of both debt and equity in…...

OpenGate Continues Build of Duraco Specialty Materials

May 31, 2023

Duraco Specialty Materials, a portfolio company of OpenGate Capital, has acquired Strata-Tac. Duraco is a business-to-business manufacturer of pressure-sensitive tapes and specialty materials that are used in point-of-purchase displays, appliances, transit packaging, construction, signage, and…...

Avem Launches Aero Platform

May 26, 2023

Aerospace and defense investor Avem Partners has acquired Astech Engineered Products, a designer and manufacturer of aerostructures. Investing in the transaction alongside Avem Partners and its principals are True West Capital, several aerospace industry executives,…...

Sterling Looks to Roll Up Tire Services Sector

May 23, 2023

The Sterling Group has formed Premier Tire & Service as a new platform to build a one-stop tire and auto services provider. Partnering with Sterling on this new effort is John Adams, an executive with…...

Boyne and Breakwater Launch Green Energy Services Platform

May 23, 2023

Boyne Capital and Breakwater North have formed Integral Energy Services to combine the pair’s investments in clean energy and infrastructure services. Integral Energy Services (IES) is comprised of Sonic Systems, International Wind, and Amperion that together employ more than 1,000 technicians serving four clean energy…...

HCI Sells Curtis to Acquisitive Primat Group

May 31, 2023

HCI Equity Partners has sold a controlling equity interest in Curtis Metal Finishing Group to Primat Group. Curtis Metal is a provider of protective coating,…...

Sentinel Sells ECM Industries to nVent Electric

May 26, 2023

Sentinel Capital Partners has sold ECM Industries to nVent Electric for $1.1 billion. Sentinel acquired ECM in February 2020. ECM is a manufacturer and supplier…...

Black Bay Closes Sale of NexGen Chemical

May 23, 2023

Energy and chemical-focused Black Bay Energy Capital has sold NexGen Chemical Technologies to Foremark Performance Chemicals, a portfolio company of SK Capital Partners. NexGen is…...

Summit Park Sells Parkline to Palladium’s Trachte

May 18, 2023

Trachte, a portfolio company of Palladium Equity Partners, has acquired Parkline, a portfolio company of Summit Park. Trachte is a manufacturer of preassembled and modularized…...

O2’s 4M Expands in Ohio

May 31, 2023

4M Building Solutions, a portfolio company of O2 Investment Partners, has acquired Capital Services, a…...

Vestar and Grey Lion Build Online Training Giant

May 26, 2023

360training, a portfolio company of Vestar Capital Partners and GreyLion Partners, has closed two add-on…...

O2 Sponsor Finance Backs Soundcore’s Paving Platform

April 10, 2023

O2 Sponsor Finance, a division of Old Second National Bank,…...

Abacus Backs Eureka’s Buy of Advertiser Perceptions

March 31, 2023

Eureka Equity Partners has acquired Advertiser Perceptions with senior debt…...

Always Active Abacus Starts Fast

February 22, 2023

Abacus Finance is continuing its active support of private equity…...

Abacus Backs Another LongueVue Platform

November 28, 2022

Abacus Finance Group has provided senior secured debt to support the acquisition of Summit Clinical Research by LongueVue Capital. Abacus also made an equity co-investment…....

O2 Backs West Edge’s Buy of Dakotaland Autoglass

November 28, 2022

O2 Sponsor Finance, a division of Old Second National Bank, has provided senior secured credit facilities to back the buy of Dakotaland Autoglass by West…...

Northstar Provides Mezz and Equity to May River’s Material Handling Platform

October 5, 2022

Northstar Capital has made an investment in Automated Handling Solutions, a portfolio company of May River Capital. Northstar provided mezzanine debt and made an equity…...

Abacus Backs New May River Platform

October 2, 2022

Abacus Finance was the provider of senior debt facilities to support the formation of Automated Handling Solutions (AHS) by May River Capital. In providing the financing, Abacus acted as the…...

O2 Sponsor Finance Backs Borgman’s Cheese Consolidation

August 23, 2022

Back in June, Gilman Cheese, a manufacturer of processed cheese and a portfolio company of Borgman Capital, acquired Dairyfood USA. The acquisition of Dairyfood was backed by O2 Sponsor Finance,…...

Monroe Capital Closes New CLO

March 29, 2022

Monroe Capital has closed a new term debt securitization fund, Monroe Capital MML CLO XIII LTD, with $457 million of capital. The term financing was the eighth new issue collateralized…...

Sentinel Sells ECM Industries to nVent Electric

May 26, 2023

Sentinel Capital Partners has sold ECM Industries to nVent Electric for $1.1 billion. Sentinel acquired ECM in February 2020. ECM is a manufacturer and supplier of electrical products and maintains an inventory of…...

Sterling Looks to Roll Up Tire Services Sector

May 23, 2023

The Sterling Group has formed Premier Tire & Service as a new platform to build a one-stop tire and auto services provider. Partnering with Sterling on this new effort is John Adams, an…...

Boyne and Breakwater Launch Green Energy Services Platform

May 23, 2023

Advent and Warburg Team Up for Baxter Carve Out

May 9, 2023

Publicly traded Baxter International has agreed to sell its biopharma solutions business to Advent International and Warburg Pincus for $4.25 billion in cash. Baxter’s biopharma solutions business (BPS) provides contract manufacturing services for…...

Sentinel Sells ECM Industries to nVent Electric

Sterling Looks to Roll Up Tire Services Sector

Boyne and Breakwater Launch Green Energy Services Platform

Advent and Warburg Team Up for Baxter Carve Out

Shoreline Sells Mr. Greens to Sterling Investment Partners

Gryphon Acquires Vetnique Labs

Ahoy Matey! Centre Back at Captain D’s

H.I.G. Exits Valtris Specialty Chemicals

Skylark Forms Platform in Auto Upfitting Sector

LLR Forms AdeptAg to Build Agricultural Tech Platform

Patriot Pickle Acquires First Place Foods

May 23, 2023

Patriot Pickle, a maker and distributor of pickles and a portfolio company of Swander Pace Capital, has acquired First Place Foods. First Place Foods manufactures a wide variety of fermented (shelf stable) and refrigerated pickles, relishes, and other pickled vegetables that are sold to the restaurant, foodservice, institutional, and retail markets. Third-generation family-owned First Place Foods, led by President Pat Hunn, operates manufacturing and warehousing facilities near Dallas in Garland, Texas. “For more than 15 years, First Place Foods has…...

SK’s Canlak Coatings Buys Ceramic Industrial Coatings

May 9, 2023

Canlak Coatings, a portfolio company of SK Capital Partners, has acquired Ceram-Traz (DBA Ceramic Industrial Coatings). Ceramic Industrial Coatings is a manufacturer of custom and proprietary water and solvent-based wood coatings as well as other coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers (CASE) products. Ceramic Industrial, led by CEO Rob Laubscher, was founded in 1962 and operates a 90,000-square-foot facility in Osseo, Minnesota (headquarters) and a 52,000-square-foot facility in Kansas City, Kansas. “We are tremendously excited about our future partnership with Canlak…...

New VP of BD at Tower Arch

May 31, 2023

Capstreet Expands Business Development and Operating Teams

May 16, 2023

LongRange Hires Biz Development Pro

March 31, 2023

Aurora Capital Promotes Yung

March 14, 2023

Harris Williams Builds Technology Group

February 22, 2023

Brown Gibbons Lang Continues Build

February 9, 2023

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STRATEGIES & STUDIES

Five Risk Management Techniques to Help PE Firms Navigate the Financial Markets Storm

May 9, 2023

Increased volatility in financial markets as a result of higher interest rates has revealed fault lines in banks and lenders, sparking concerns about liquidity among a wide range of investors, including private equity fund managers…....

PE’s Traverse into Supply Chain Technology Not Without Some Pitfalls

October 11, 2022

Few, if any, observers have a better view into the impact of the supply chain crisis than private equity general partners. They see the wide-ranging impact across their entire portfolio of companies, across different sectors…...

The Changing Face of M&A

February 13, 2023

I’ve been an investment banker since 1995. Over this period, a handful of trends have defined the sale of a private business – market-clearing auctions, the emergence of the adjusted EBITDA multiple as the primary…...

Risk Off

November 18, 2022

“Risk Off” is the name of the game for mid-market private equity professionals, according to GF Data’s November report. The third quarter saw a marked surge in valuations accompanied by substantial increases in equity contributions…...

GF Data: Deal Pace Slows in Q2

August 18, 2022

Private equity buyers continued to tap the brakes in the second quarter, according to GF Data’s August report. After a blistering pace in the latter half of 2021, completed transaction volume was down markedly in…...

Datasite Sees Increased Activity in Second Half

July 7, 2022

Transaction activity is expected to increase over the next 12 months, though most dealmakers foresee a reduction in multiples, even as inflation increases are priced into models, according to a new survey from Datasite, a…...

OpenGate Continues Build of Duraco Specialty Materials

May 31, 2023

O2’s 4M Expands in Ohio

May 31, 2023

4M Building Solutions, a portfolio company of O2 Investment Partners, has acquired Capital Services, a provider of cleaning services for healthcare, municipal, corporate and industrial…...

HCI Sells Curtis to Acquisitive Primat Group

May 31, 2023

HCI Equity Partners has sold a controlling equity interest in Curtis Metal Finishing Group to Primat Group. Curtis Metal is a provider of protective coating,…...