Fixtures Living has announced a strategic partnership with Catterton Partners. The partnership will support the expansion of the company throughout the United States. Fixtures Living is a retail concept specializing in providing customers a tailored assortment of premium lifestyle products for the home. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
4 min read · 04 March 2013
Praxair has acquired NuCO2 for $1.1 billion from Aurora Capital Group. NuCO2 is a provider of fountain beverage carbonation in the US with approximately 162,000 customer locations and 900 employees.
3 min read · 04 March 2013
Synteract, a full-service contract research organization has completed its acquisition of Harrison Clinical Research to form a new multinational business – SynteractHCR. Synteract is a portfolio company of San Francisco-based Gryphon Investors.
3 min read · 04 March 2013
Kodak has reached an agreement to amend the terms for the previously-announced interim and exit financing package. The amendments provide Kodak with additional flexibility to successfully execute its reorganization objectives and emerge from Chapter 11 in mid-2013.
5 min read · 04 March 2013
Solar finance provider OneRoof Energy has secured an agreement for the acquisition of up to $100 million in residential solar projects with MS Solar Holdings Inc, an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley and Main Street Power Company, a North American solar developer and owner/operator, through the expansion of their existing MySolarSM residential lease financing platform. Debt financing for the newest MySolarSM fund will be provided by National Bank of Arizona.
4 min read · 04 March 2013
Maranon Capital has completed a mezzanine debt investment in Young Innovations to support affiliates of Linden Capital Partners in a public–to-private transaction valued at approximately $314 million. Maranon was agent for the lenders who provided a $65 million mezzanine tranche. Maranon also co-invested preferred and common equity in the transaction alongside Linden.
3 min read · 04 March 2013
First Read brings you the latest headlines from the weekend touching on entrepreneurs' greatest challenges; whether we need to rank biotech hubs and FundersClub's crowdsourcing approach to venture capital.
1 min read · 04 March 2013
The usual mid-market suspect comes top of this week’s scorecard looking at the top performers of the $49 billion Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board private equity portfolio as of September 30, 2012. The scorecard also highlights the bottom five performers of this sub-set, which interestingly also includes this week’s top performer.
2 min read · 28 February 2013
VMG Partners has promoted Wayne K. Wu to principal. Wu joined VMG in 2008 as an associate with diverse experience in transactions, operations, and accounting.
2 min read · 28 February 2013
Incline Equity Partners has appointed April Simile as director of business development. Lauren McKibben, previously director of business development, will transition to a new role as investment associate with the firm.
2 min read · 28 February 2013
