Deals in brief

North Branch Capital backs industrial maintenance provider Callaway Industrial Services

Headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina, Callaway offers specialized cleaning, painting, flooring, upfits, renovation and other facility management services to industrial and commercial plants.

Goldman Sachs-backed Integrity Care Group completes deal for 15 NextCare clinics

The acquired sites comprise nine clinics in Oklahoma, four in Missouri and two in Nebraska, with around 200 clinic employees.

Carlyle and CVC's CFGI strikes deal for Texas advisory firm BAO Consulting

Founded in 2021, BAO provides accounting and finance advisory, CFO and controller support, financial planning and analysis, finance transformation, systems implementation and transaction-related services in Dallas and Houston.

Align Capital Partners' Advantage Investigations completes add-on of NorStar Investigations

Fishkill, New York-based NorStar provides surveillance, background checks and insurance fraud, claim and legal investigations across New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Old Ironsides, EnCap Flatrock's Brazos seals $4.4bn Midland asset sale to ONEOK

The Midland Basin natural gas gathering and processing system includes about 700 miles of pipeline and 1.1 billion cubic feet per day of processing capacity.

Blackstone agrees $3.0bn sale of events business Clarion to Informa

Clarion, founded in 1947, owns and operates more than 100 specialist B2B live events brands, including IFA Berlin, DSEI and ICE.

Apposite Capital seals first Healthcare III exit with CrestOptics sale to Evident

CrestOptics, founded in 2011 in Rome, develops and manufactures optical imaging systems for spinning disk confocal and super-resolution microscopy.

Searchlight and Fitzroy to acquire credit manager Kredinor from SpareBank 1 Gruppen

Kredinor runs a credit management platform and merged with Modhi Finance in 2022.

Eurazeo to acquire majority stake in water efficiency specialist Miya

Miya, founded in 2007, helps water utilities reduce non-revenue water, which is lost through leaks, theft or metering errors before it reaches customers.

Littlejohn's Ardurra strikes deal for Texas water engineering firm eHT

Founded in 1989, Abilene-headquartered eHT serves public-sector and utility clients from offices in Abilene, Granbury and Lubbock.