September 26, 2018 - 9:00 CST
Year 11 Volume 9 Issue 14      
Today's News and Transactions
Arsenal Building Adhesives Giant
Meridian Adhesives Group, a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital Partners, has acquired W.F. Taylor, LLC, from Dominus Capital. W.F. Taylor, acquired by Dominus from Grace Matthews in April 2015, is a manufacturer and marketer of flooring adhesives for use with carpet - including carpet tile and broadloom; hard surfaces - including luxury vinyl tile and...Read More
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AUA Adds Desi to Raymundos Food Group
Raymundos Food Group, a portfolio company of AUA Private Equity Partners, has acquired the assets of Desi Natural Dahi from Derle Farms, Inc., a family-owned milk and yogurt distributor. Desi Natural is a developer and marketer of branded Indian yogurts (dahi) and cheese (paneer) which is predominantly sold through ethnic food retailers...Read More
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Tecum Acquires Tidewater Equipment
Tecum Equity Partners has acquired Tidewater Equipment Company, a distributor of forestry and related equipment. Tidewater's equipment includes Tigercat brand feller bunchers, skidders, and loaders; and Morbark brand chippers, grinders, and shredders. In addition to selling new and used equipment, Tidewater also provides parts and service to its base of equipment operating in the field...Read More
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New Partner at Guardian Capital
Guardian Capital Partners has added Ryan Northington to the firm as a partner. Mr. Northington has 13 years of private equity buyout and growth investment experience in value-added distribution and manufacturing, retail and consumer, healthcare, aviation services, software, product marketing, and internet and media...Read More
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Dominus Adds to Masterbuilt
Masterbuilt Manufacturing, a portfolio company of Dominus Capital, has acquired Premier Specialty Brands (DBA Kamado Joe). Kamado Joe is a designer, marketer and distributor of kamado style ceramic grills, charcoal and accessories. The company is headquartered near Atlanta in Duluth, GA. Kamado Joe's founders, Bobby Brennan and Kerry Coker, reinvested alongside Dominus...Read More
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Francisco Partners Exits Crossmatch
Francisco Partners has sold its portfolio company Crossmatch to HID Global. Francisco Partners first invested in Crossmatch in July 2012. Crossmatch is a provider of biometric identity management and secure authentication services. The company has more than 5,000 customers worldwide and more than 250,000 products deployed in over 80 countries. Cross Match's customers include the...Read More
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Insight Adds to VirTex
VirTex Enterprises, a portfolio company of Insight Equity, has acquired PPI-Time Zero from Guardian Capital Partners. PPI-Time Zero was purchased by Guardian Capital from Saugatuck Capital in January 2011. Insight Equity acquired VirTex in October 2017. PPI-Time Zero (PPI) is a low-to-medium volume contract manufacturer of electronics components used in the aerospace and defense, medical...Read More
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Apax Buys Authority Brands
Apax Partners has acquired Authority Brands, a North American franchisor of two home services brands, from Pittsburgh-based PNC Riverarch Capital. Authority Brands is the parent company of two home services franchisors: The Cleaning Authority, which provides residential cleaning services to over 100,000 customers across the US; and Homewatch CareGivers, which delivers at-home services including elderly...Read More
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Tailwind Closes Oversubscribed Fund III
Tailwind Capital has held a final closing of Tailwind Capital Partners III LP with $1.8 billion of commitments. The new fund exceeded its initial target and was oversubscribed. Fund III received commitments from existing and new investors, including pension funds, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, family offices and...Read More
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Flexpoint Ford Invests in MobilityWorks
Flexpoint Ford has acquired MobilityWorks, one of the nation's leading providers of wheelchair accessible vehicles, in partnership with the company's senior management team who will retain a significant ownership stake and continue to lead the company. MobilityWorks markets and manufactures adaptive vehicles and accessibility products including wheelchair accessible minivans, full-size vans with lifts, and commercial...Read More
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Pfingsten Builds Crane 1
Crane 1 Services, a portfolio company of Pfingsten Partners, has acquired Mt. Clemens Crane & Service, a provider of overhead crane services and equipment. Mt. Clemens Crane manufactures a wide range of cranes including overhead bridge cranes, fabricated girders, runways, jib cranes and gantry cranes. The company's services include inspections, maintenance, repair, design and...Read More
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Blackford Invests in Hall Research
Blackford Capital has made an investment in Hall Research, a designer and manufacturer of A/V hardware and software. Hall Research's products facilitate the communication between A/V sources and A/V displays. The company's 22 different product lines and over 500 SKUs include video over CATx cabling, matrix switchers, scaling products, and automation products. Hall's products are...Read More
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Rothschild Closes New US Mid-Market Fund
Rothschild Merchant Banking, the investment arm of Rothschild & Co, has held a final closing of Five Arrows Capital Partners (FACP or the Fund), its first corporate private equity vehicle in the United States. The new fund closed above target with total capital commitments in excess of $655 million...Read More
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Edgewater Acquires Pure Wafer
Edgewater Capital Partners has acquired Wafer Holding Company (dba Pure Wafer). Pure Wafer is the largest US-based provider of silicon wafer reclaim services and supplies virgin silicon wafers, specialty thin film deposition products, and silicon parts services. Customers of the company include most of the world's largest semiconductor suppliers and equipment manufacturers...Read More
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Wynnchurch Building America II
America II, a distributor of electronic components and a portfolio company of Wynnchurch Capital since October 2017, has acquired Advanced MP Technology. Advanced MP is a global distributor of electronic components and a provider of supply chain services. The company specializes in hard-to-find as well as mature and obsolete electronic components, all of which they...Read More
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Hidden Harbor Closes on Fourth Platform
Hidden Harbor Capital Partners has acquired sister companies Anchor Danly and AWC Manufacturing. Anchor Danly is an international manufacturer and distributor of die sets, components, steel plates, and metal fabrications that are used in the production of tools, dies, and molds for metalworking and plastics injection molding, machine bases, mining and construction equipment...Read More
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Center Rock Buys LINC, Closes Add-on
Center Rock Capital Partners has acquired LINC Systems, a distributor of fastener, packaging and MRO tools and supplies. Center Rock invested in LINC out of its inaugural fund, Center Rock Capital Partners Fund I LP, which closed earlier this month at an oversubscribed $580 million of limited partner capital commitments...Read More
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Mason Wells Stays Active in Gaming
Mason Wells has acquired Buffalo Games, a manufacturer, and marketer of jigsaw puzzles and board games, from the company's founders Paul and Eden Dedrick. Mason Wells partnered with CEO Nagendra Raina and other members of the company's management team on this transaction. According to Mason Wells, Buffalo Games is the largest manufacturer of jigsaw puzzles...Read More
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Abacus Backs Latest WestView Buy
Abacus Finance Group was the Administrative Agent and Lead Arranger for $20 million in senior secured credit facilities to back the recapitalization of AccountabilIT by WestView Capital Partners. Abacus also made an equity co-investment to support the transaction. AccountabilIT is a provider of outsourced IT services...Read More
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Grey Mountain Adds Associate
Grey Mountain Partners has added Justin Lee to its investment team as a new Associate. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Lee was an Associate in the healthcare group at Piper Jaffray, focusing on healthcare information technology and services...Read More
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Brazos Exits BlackHawk Industrial
Brazos Private Equity Partners has sold BlackHawk Industrial Distribution to Snow Phipps Group. BlackHawk Industrial Distribution was formed by Brazos in 2010 in partnership with Bill Scheller, the former CEO and President of ORS Nasco, a wholesale distributor of industrial supplies and a portfolio company of Brazos that was sold to...Read More
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Palo Duro Partners Up in Chemicals
Palo Duro Capital has partnered with Mario Toukan to form CCR Specialty Chemicals in order to acquire Crowley Chemical and its subsidiary Rusmar. Crowley Chemical manufactures and distributes organic chemicals derived from petroleum derivatives and serves as a custom formulator of specialty aromatic oils bends used by compounders to...Read More
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Graham Adds to Aviation Platform
Desser, a portfolio company of Graham Partners, has acquired AOG Aviation Spares, LLC and Seginus, LLC (together AOG/Seginus). AOG/Seginus is a provider of component repair and overhaul services to the domestic and international aerospace industry and also produces replacement PMA (Parts Manufacturer Approval) parts that are sold to airline operators, repair stations...Read More
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Blue Wolf Sharpens Portfolio
Blue Wolf Capital Partners has merged two of its portfolio companies - Pearl Technologies and TGW Holdings - to create Edge Industrial Technologies. Edge Industrial Technologies brings together a century-old, British family owned business and an American engineering and manufacturing company and it immediately becomes a leading provider of aftermarket consumables to the food...Read More
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NCK and Graycliff Acquire Graybill
NCK Capital has acquired Graybill Processing, a food by-product recycling company. NCK Capital completed this transaction in partnership with Graycliff Partners which invested both subordinated debt and equity. Graybill provides collection services, by-product handling, and 24/7 regional logistics support to food waste streams. Through a proprietary process, Graybill converts candy, bakery and other hard-to-handle food...Read More 
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JMC Buys Phoenix Products
JMC Capital Partners has acquired Phoenix Products, a manufacturer of rugged industrial lighting products. Phoenix's lighting products are used in a range of applications in ports, mines, marine, and other commercial and industrial markets. The company, which traces its roots back to 1892 when it was founded by George Wordingham, has a...Read More
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Founders Group Acquires MacDonald Meat
Armand Agra, a portfolio company of Founders Group of Food Companies in partnership with the Flocchini family, has acquired MacDonald Meat Company. MacDonald Meat Company (Mac Meat) is a processor and distributor of meat products to the US Pacific Northwest and also exports its products to customers across the Pacific Rim...Read More
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Applied-Cleveland Buys Third Add-On
Applied-Cleveland, a portfolio company of First Reserve, has acquired the Inspection Business of STS Consulting Services. First Reserve acquired Applied-Cleveland in September 2016 from Nautic Partners. The Inspection Business of STS provides third-party inspection and integrity maintenance services for midstream oil and gas customers across North America. In addition to its...Read More 
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Arbor Hungry for Private Label Petfood
Arbor Investments has agreed to acquire Mars Petcare's US-based private label pet food products business (Exclusive Brands or EB). The agreement includes the division of Mars Petcare that produces private label pet food products for a variety of...Read More
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