Dealmaking

HIG Capital agrees to buy Avanta Salud Integral

Avanta’s founder, Josep Pla, together with current minority investor MCH Private Equity, will reinvest alongside HIG for a minority ownership interest.

Epiris enters H2 with several deals in late-stage talks; Security clearance issues complicate defense M&A, says Datasite

Pollen Street has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Leonard Curtis, a corporate restructuring provider operating across the UK and offshore.

Epiris’ Owen Wilson: Complex carve-outs in the pipeline

The mid-market private equity firm focuses on ‘complex situations around businesses that have been constrained by their ownership and so whose performance is often lagging.’

American Securities and CD&R sell FBM to Lowe’s for $8.8bn; Apollo bets on IT services with Trace3 deal

FTV Capital and Lead Edge Capital are also making a minority investment in Highway, a tech provider that aims to reduce fraud.

FTV Capital bets on Highway to fight fraud in logistics sector

'Fraud is only becoming more rampant in the transportation industry,' FTV's Jerome Hershey told PE Hub.

Apollo sees consolidation in IT services as companies seek centralized access

Apollo partner Robert Kalsow-Ramos discussed the recent acquisition of Trace3 with PE Hub.

Germany’s Mittelstand in play as Vorsprung leverages family-backing; Astorg enters German insurance; KKR brings in co-investors to Spectris take-private

Spectris is a London-listed precision measurement company.

Vorsprung Partners’ Holger Rossbach: Opening up the Mittelstand

The PE firm’s entrepreneurial family backing is helping create opportunities with family- and founder-owned companies in Germany’s Mittelstand.

KKR-backed Fortifi Food Processing extends buying spree; DuPont, Venator to test market for Viance, sources say

Core Industrial Partners invested in Immec, a South Circle, Georgia-based provider of maintenance, retrofit and renovation services.

How to deal with upside-down cap tables

Here’s how VCs should think about diagnosing, managing and resolving challenges of upside-down cap tables, which undermine stakeholder alignment and threaten the viability of portfolio companies, writes attorney Davis Mello of Bass, Berry & Sims.