Transactions

Gas Applications & Services, a gas detection specialist, was sold to Alertis, the market leader in the Belgian fire safety and security market.

Ord Minnett, a leading private wealth management group with AU$35 billion of funds under advice, acquired E.L. & C. Baillieu Limited, a large private wealth management group.

Pack Solutions, a leading player in outsourced management of life insurance and pension insurance products, reorganized its capital with Siparex Intermezzo.

Bard Capital sold Blastrac to Husqvarna Group. Blastrac is a leading international manufacturer and distributor of industrial equipment for surface preparation. ​

Bitpro AS acquired KeyNet, a provider of complete data communication solutions for large and medium sized companies.

Booming, a Dutch digital marketing agency, was sold to Belgium based Intracto Group, backed by PE firm Waterland.

Gehring Technologies, a precision manufacturer specialized in honing technology, agreed to be acquired by the Nagel Group.

VOMM, a leading Italian producer of industrial plants for the environmental, chemical‐pharmaceutical, and food sectors, sold a controlling stake (65%) to Aksia Group’s Aksia V fund.

Ealyze, a Dutch company that installs, manages and maintains smart energy meters for the B2B market, has been acquired by Dutch investment company NPM Capital.

Confirma Software AB, backed by US private equity firm Abry Partners, acquired DataVara AB, a leading Swedish provider of payroll systems and services for the SME segment.

SAAB divested the Dutch‐based company QPS (Quality Positioning Services), a provider of hydrographic software solutions for the global maritime industry.

Pluradent Group, Germany’s second largest distributor of dental consumables, dental practice equipment and accompanying technical support services, was acquired by Deutsche Mittelstandsholding, a German investment holding as part of a debtor in possession insolvency proceeding.

Oxicorte Gatika, an oxy-fuel steel cutting company, was sold to Grupo Larrión, an integrated industrial group that works in the wire, steel, and electronic subsectors.

Pagantis, a fintech group based in Spain, sold QueBueno, its business line of online consumer microcredits, to an individual shareholder of the group.

Estetique (Polanica‐Zdrój), one of the leading dental clinics in southwest Poland sold a majority stake to Tar Heel Capital (THC), a Poland‐based private equity firm.

Frigo ‘s-Heerenberg, a Dutch cold store company providing temperature-controlled storage of food products, was sold to PE backed Lineage Logistics.

IGI Private Equity and management sold 100% of Fimo Group, the European leader in components and systems applied in telecommunications infrastructure, to Wise Equity, a PE fund that has been investing in Italian SMEs since 2000.

Metaphor IT merged with DoubleEdge Professional Services and Foehn to form Kerv, a transaction backed by LDC with a combined value of GBP 30 million.

Fastned, the leading European fast-charging stations operator, acquired the fast-charging network of MisterGreen, a Dutch EV leasing company.

Richards Packaging Income Fund (TSX: RPI.UN) acquired Clarion Medical Technologies, a Canadian provider of medical, aesthetic, vision care and surgical equipment and consumables.