PE Hub Wire

Inflexion portfolio company DSS has acquired Proaction International.

Catching up with Jon Maschmeyer, partner at Permira, to learn more about the growth strategy for Valeris, which formed from the Permira portfolio company PharmaCord and Odyssey Investment Partners-backed Mercalis; Watchtower Capital Partners launched a new fencing service provider platform, which merges Fence Builders of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Green Hill Fencing of Greenville, South Carolina; a look at PE’s interest in digital marketing.

An exclusive deal announcement involving IT managed service providers; an outlook on the industrials and manufacturing M&A market; a sweet deal involving an Oregon pie producer.

Mutares has agreed to acquire a Spanish transportation company operating across the food supply chain.

A 6-deal listicle from the consistent need to replenish gloves, syringes and other medical consumables; Linden Capital Partners and GIC are among the latest firms to make a move in the pharma commercialization segment; deal volume in the vitamins and supplements sector has increased by quite a margin from last year’s figures, according to Capstone Partners’ latest M&A report.