The Yucaipa Companies

The Yucaipa Companies, the investment firm founded by Ron Burkle, has invested in Brew Hub, which will offer craft brewers the opportunity to partner brew their beers on site. St. Louis-based Brew Hub was founded by a team of former Anheuser-Busch executives led by Tim Schoen. Brew Hub announced plans Tuesday for its first brewery in Lakeland, Fla., the first of at least five planned facilities around the country.

Amalgamated Bank said Monday it expects to receive about $100 million in equity investments from two investors, WL Ross & Co. LLC and The Yucaipa Companies. Each are putting in around $50 million. Once the deal closes, which is expected in fourth quarter, Yucaipa (which is led by Ron Burkle) and WL Ross will each own approximately 20% of Amalgamated's common stock.

Medical apparel brand Jaanuu has secured $5 million in funding. The investors included Sipadan Capital, Innovation Global Capital, BAM Ventures, Potenza Capital and M3 Ventures. In addition to the funding, Jaanuu has named Derrick Dinglasan as senior vice president of product management.

VersaCold Logistic Services has bought the assets of Gary Heer Transport Ltd, a refrigerated provider of truckload cross-border transportation services between Western Canada and the United States. No financial terms were released. VersaCold, a Vancouver-based supply chain solutions company that handles temperature sensitive products, said the deal marks its entrance into the U.S. cross-border transportation market. It plans to launch a new subsidiary, VersaCold North America Transportation Solutions Ltd, this quarter. VersaCold is backed by real estate private equity firm KingSett Capital and Ivanhoé Cambridge, an affiliate of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.

Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, were paid more than $1 million by private equity firms for speaking engagments over the last year and a half, according to a public financial disclosure.

Supervalu has elected two new members to its board: John Standley, Rite Aid's chairman president and CEO and Mark Neporent, Cerberus Capital's COO and general counsel. They are directors. In January, Supervalu agreed to sel /180490/supervalu-sells-chains-cerberus-led-group/ l five of its retail grocery chains to an investor group led by Cerberus Capital Management LP.

Former Credit Suisse Asset Management executive Mark Bourgeois will replace Atlantic-Pacific Capital’s founder, James Manley, as CEO. Manley (pictured) will remain chairman.

Michael Russell, former head of Europe for Altius Associates, has resurfaced at billionaire supermarket mogul Ron Burkle’s private equity firm.

The firm’s investment in Churchill Financial highlights the increasingly attractive opportunity to back financial service companies lending into the underserved US mid-market.

The bank’s transition into asset-based lending for private equity-backed deals could be part of a niche financing trend for medium sized banks, says Amalgamated investor Wilbur Ross.