Providence, Rhode Island-based private equity firm Nautic Partners has acquired medical imaging management services group American Imaging Management, investing $37m in the company.
Australia’s Macquarie Bank and a private equity affiliate have won the auction of BBC Broadcast, the digital media services arm of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
The second- and third-largest movie theater chains in the US, both of which are backed by private equity firms, reportedly plan to merge.
The two private equity giants have teamed with Haier Group, China’s largest maker of household appliances, in a $1.28 bid for Maytag, a struggling US maker of washing machines that already has a buyout deal inked with Ripplewood Holdings.
Castle Harlan Australian Mezzanine Partners has sold Australian Pacific Paper Products for A$75m, about three times the firm’s initial investment.
In the first deal to be made from its latest $3.3bn global buyout fund, Advent International has agreed to buy drilling equipment and services provider Boart Longyear from Anglo American.
Lion Capital has completed its first transaction since changing its name from Hicks Muse, acquiring UK restaurant chain Wagamama for £102.5m.
Industri Kapital has made its second investment from its 2004 fund to acquire home decoration company SIA Group in a secondary buyout from 3i.
In its largest transaction to date, the Nordic mid-market private equity firm has agreed to acquire a Swedish automation company for SEK1.2bn, the debut transaction from its latest fund.
The Dutch venture firm formerly known as NeSBIC Technology has sold Oxxio to UK gas supply company Centrica for €137m, less than three months after becoming independent.