Private Equity
Verdesian Life Sciences, which is backed by Paine & Partners, has acquired Northwest Agricultural Products. Financial terms weren't announced. Pasco, Wa.-based Northwest Agricultural provides specialty agricultural products.
4 min read · 27 February 2013
The number of dividend recaps may have soared in fourth quarter but don't expect that to continue this year, according to Moody's Investors Service.
3 min read · 27 February 2013
M/C Partners and Columbia Capital said Wednesday that they have agreed to sell the assets of Baja Broadband. The buyer is Telephone and Data Systems, which announced the acquisition yesterday. Baja, of Alamogordo, New Mexico, provides video, high-speed broadband and voice services to residential and commercial customers in Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Utah.
4 min read · 27 February 2013
Finalsite, which is backed by Spectrum Equity, has acquired Silverpoint. Financial terms were not announced. Baltimore, Md.-based Silverpoint provides websites and software to independent schools.
3 min read · 27 February 2013
Instagram now has 100 million active users, Anheuser-Busch gets sued for allegedly selling weak beer and some think Twitter is really worth $10 billion.
1 min read · 26 February 2013
Calypso Technology held talks to sell itself late last year but those discussions broke down, sources tell peHUB. Calypso hired Qatalyst Partners, the investment bank founded by Frank Quattrone, to find a buyer last year.
2 min read · 26 February 2013
Another top executive leaves Square, why some think Yahoo's ban on working from home is right and the top 10 cities for women entrepreneurs.
1 min read · 25 February 2013
Ampersand Capital Partners said Monday that Eric Lev has joined as a partner, while Dana Niles was named CFO and Chief Compliance Officer. John Perkins also joined Ampersand as an operating partner. Lev was most recently at Water Street Healthcare Partners where he served on their investment team. Niles previously was CFO of HighPoint Capital. And Perkins was a senior executive at Talecris Biotherapeutics, an Ampersand portfolio company.
2 min read · 25 February 2013
RLJ Equity Partners said Monday that it has appointed Jack Isaacs a director of business development. Isaacs will coordinate corporate initiatives and investor relations. He will report to Rufus Rivers, RLJ's managing partner. Most recently, Isaacs was a managing director and partner at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors.
3 min read · 25 February 2013
Jacques Chappuis is joining The Carlyle Group as a Managing Director and Head of the Solutions business segment. Chappuis comes to Carlyle from Morgan Stanley, where he serves as President of Alternative Investments Partners. He begins his duties at Carlyle in May and will be based in New York.
2 min read · 25 February 2013
