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Charlesbank Launches Consumer Products Platform

Charlesbank Capital Partners has bought five over-the-counter consumer products brands from McNEIL-PPC Inc., and has formed a related acquisition platform called Blacksmith Brands Inc. No financial terms were disclosed for the deal, which includes such products as Efferdent denture cleaner and Pediacare children's cough medicine. Blacksmith will be led by former Prestige Brands chief Peter Mann, while its CFO will be former J.W. Childs president Dana Schmaltz.

3 min read · 30 October 2009

CIT Expected To File for Bankruptcy Within Days

2 min read · 30 October 2009

Threshers Cuts 81 Jobs, More To Go

1 min read · 30 October 2009

Cosette Urges Shareholders To Wait For Sweetened Bid

2 min read · 29 October 2009

Blackstone Shares Experience Pre-Earnings Surge

2 min read · 29 October 2009

GrowthWorks Merging with Seamark

1 min read · 29 October 2009

Och-Ziff Buyer of TPG's Debenhams Stake

1 min read · 29 October 2009

Collection Associates Adds On

Collection Associates LLC, a portfolio company of LaSalle Capital Group, has acquired Money Recovery Nationwide, a Landsing, Mich.-based provider of debt collection services to the healthcare industry. No financial terms were disclosed.

2 min read · 29 October 2009

Credit Was Key to First Republic Bidding

4 min read · 29 October 2009

Black Opal Equity Launches

Black Opal Equity has launched as a Jersey City, N.J.-based private equity firm focused on U.S. middle-market businesses in the infrastructure, essential service and government sectors. Managing partner Matthew Day previously focused on infrastructure and essential services investments with Macquarie.

2 min read · 29 October 2009

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