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Littlejohn in C$600m coffee roasting dealMiddle market firm Littlejohn & Co. has agreed to take private Van Houtte, a gourmet coffee roasting company, for C$600 million. It’s the second Canadian company the US firm has agreed to buy in the last week.
- Littlejohn in C$600m coffee roasting deal(2)
Middle market firm Littlejohn & Co. has agreed to take private Van Houtte, a gourmet coffee roasting company, for C$600 million. It’s the second Canadian company the US firm has agreed to buy in the last week.
- US Hispanic fund draws $520m
Palladium Equity Partners, which in recent years has rebranded itself to focus more on the growing US Hispanic market, has closed its third fund on $520m.
- Healthy returns
Montagu’s exit from organic food manufacturer Marlow Foods is the latest in a series of profitable health food investments for private equity firms. Colm Gilmore checks out the latest diet craze.
- Texas Pacific hires Raymond Sharpe
The US private equity firm has announced the appointment of Raymond Sharpe, chief executive of electronics at the Cookson Group, the engineering concern.
- JLL pasta play goes limp amid Atkins diet fad
JLL Partners will likely declare bankrupt its pasta portfolio company, New World Pasta, thanks to mounting debt and a national craze for the low-carb Atkins diet.
- JLL Partners in $1bn blowout exit
The New York buyout firm has turned a $150m investment in a pharmacy benefit manager into an 81 percent IRR winner.
- TA Associates hires principal
Michael Berk, a former senior vice president at JLL Partners, will join the Boston office to focus on LBOs and recapitalizations in the consumer, financial services and business services sectors.
- Littlejohn carves out GE abrasives division
Greenwich, Connecticut buyout firm, Littlejohn & Co., has completed its acquisition of the superabrasives business of General Electric.