Chicago-based Code Hennessy & Simmons has engineered a merger between its existing portfolio company Rinker Boat and Godfrey Conveyor.
The buyout and mezzanine manager has invested €29 million of equity and debt in French sushi company Marco Polo.
The European private equity firm has acquired France’s third largest casino operator from Legal & General Ventures and Royal Bank Equity Finance.
AXA Private Equity generated an IRR of around 45 percent in the sale of Tokheim to Electra Partners Europe.
An investment group led by Sydney-based Pacific Equity Partners appears to have missed out on what could have been Australia’s largest buyout to date.
A Barclays Private Equity-led consortium and other shareholders have received proceeds of £100 million from the flotation of the UK IT staffing company.
KPS Special Situations and Pegasus Partners have already recouped 1.5x their investment in Genesis Worldwide thanks to a unit sale to Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery.
New York-based Solera Capital has bolstered its Homegrown Naturals organic food platform with the purchase of Annie’s Naturals, a maker of salad dressings and condiments.
The Australian investment bank is reported to be close to agreeing the purchase of Taiwan Broadband Communications in a secondary buyout from Carlyle Group of the US.
Gryphon Investors has returned roughly 100 percent of its invested equity in Eight O’ Clock Coffee Company. The San Francisco-based firm acquired the business in November 2003, and in the two successive Novembers since, has taken out a dividend through a recapitalisation.