Brynwood Exits Great Kitchens in Sale to Rich Products

Brynwood Partners has sold its portfolio company, Great Kitchens Food Company, to Rich Products Corporation. Great Kitchens is a manufacturer of private label and branded take-and-bake pizzas, flatbreads, strombolis and calzones sold nationally through grocery, wholesale club, mass retail, foodservice and e-commerce channels. The business operates three manufacturing facilities in Romeoville, Illinois; Chicago Heights, Illinois; and Brockton, Massachusetts, and employs more than 1,000 people... Read More

BV Carves Out Division from Alacrity Solutions, Forms Altimeter Solutions Group

BV Investment Partners has completed the acquisition of the Managed Repair Program division from Alacrity Solutions, a portfolio company of Antares Capital, Blue Owl Capital, and KKR since March 2025, and has launched the business as Altimeter Solutions Group. BV completed the transaction using capital from its eleventh and twelfth funds. The buy and launch of Altimeter Solutions Group is the first investment for BV Investment Partners Fund XII LP (Fund XII), which closed earlier... Read More

SPS PoolCare Adds Pool Troopers, Closes its Largest Acquisition to Date

SPS PoolCare has acquired Pool Troopers, combining the two largest swimming pool services providers in the United States and expanding SPS PoolCare’s operations across 19 markets in five states. SPS PoolCare is a portfolio company of Storr Group, and Pool Troopers is a portfolio company of Shoreline Equity Partners. Post-closing, Shoreline will maintain a minority stake in the combined business in partnership with Storr Group. Pool Troopers... Read More

Osceola’s Trauma Services Keeps Expanding

Trauma Services, a provider of biohazard cleanup and remediation services and a portfolio company of Osceola Capital, continues its growth with the closing of three add-on acquisitions and the green fielding of six new offices in 2025. Trauma Services responds to hazardous and traumatic situations, including crime scenes, unattended deaths, suicides, homicides, hoarding environments, infectious disease incidents, and other biohazard contamination events. The company’s services include 24/7 emergency response for biohazard... Read More

Aurora Buys Industrial Asset Monitoring Company Anova

Aurora Capital Partners has acquired Anova, a provider of Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) technology used to remotely monitor and manage industrial assets. Anova products and services are used to monitor and manage industrial equipment such as tanks, gauges, pumps, and other field assets used in the industrial gas, propane, fuels, lubricants, and chemicals sectors. The company’s platform combines proprietary hardware sensors, managed wireless connectivity, and cloud-based software modules for forecasting... Read More

Leonard Green’s Sage Push Shows How Big GP-Led Secondaries Have Become

Leonard Green & Partners (LGP) has held a $3.6 billion final close of Sage Equity Investors LP (Sage I), the firm’s inaugural investment program focused on single-asset continuation funds sponsored by third-party private equity managers. The new vehicle had a target of $1.5 billion. Fund I was supported by both new and existing limited partners including public and corporate pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, family offices, insurance companies and other institutional investors. “Sage represents a natural extension of LGP’s long history... Read More

Bertram Promotes Four to Managing Director

Bertram Capital has promoted four of its professionals on its investment and origination teams — Sean Houseworth, Aaron Kessler, Matt Jones and Paul Koeniger — to managing director. Mr. Houseworth has been with Bertram’s business services investment team since 2016, focusing on evaluating and managing middle-market private equity investments, and currently leads the firm’s investment in MSE Supplies while serving on the boards of Cogency and Spectrio. Mr. Kessler joined the firm in 2022 as part of the industrials investment team and serves on the boards of Safety Products Global... Read More

New State Adds Non-Control Strategy as Independent Sponsor Market Scales

New State Capital Partners has launched Forge Select, a new non-control investment strategy focused on partnering with independent sponsors. The new strategy builds on New State’s long-standing presence in the independent sponsor market and is designed to provide non-control capital while allowing sponsors to retain ownership and positioning, alongside access to the firm’s operating resources and market relationships... Read More

Highlander Acquires Tapatio Hot Sauce Brand

Highlander Partners has acquired Tapatio, a hot sauce brand founded by the Saavedra family. Co-investing in the transaction alongside Highlander are The Arnold Companies and the Saavedra family. Tapatio’s core product is Tapatío Salsa Picante Hot Sauce, a medium-heat condiment made from red peppers, salt, spices, garlic, and vinegar. The sauce is sold in multiple bottle sizes, including five-ounce, 10-ounce, 32-ounce, and gallon formats, as well as single-serve packets. Consumers use the product across a wide range of... Read More

Wind Point Finds its Next Platform in Littlejohn’s Hiller

Wind Point Partners has agreed to acquire The Hiller Companies, a provider of fire and life safety services and a portfolio company of Littlejohn & Co. The Hiller Companies provides recurring and project-based services to customers operating in commercial, industrial and marine environments where system failures carry elevated risk. The company’s services include routine testing and inspection of fire protection systems; repair and maintenance; design and engineering of customized safety systems; and... Read More

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Thompson Street’s PestCo Closes a Second January Add-On

Churchill Raises Over $16 Billion for Latest Senior Lending Funds

Thompson Street Builds Pest Platform

Bertram Capital–backed Ridgeline buys Bold North

Audax Strategic Invests in Princeton Equity Group–backed Strickland Brothers

Grant Avenue Buys Vitamin and Supplement Maker 21st Century

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