Jennifer Harris
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan continues its focus on inflation-sensitive infrastructure assets, with its plans to buy Chilean public water and wastewater company Esval, its third such investment.
Canadian firm CAI has sold dental and vision insurer SafeGuard Health to MetLife, generating a 20 percent IRR on the investment.
The Chicago-based, healthcare focused firm has acquired a controlling stake in Behavioral Centers of America, helping the chain to finance its expansion.
The San Francisco firm’s fourth, $1.2 billion fund is more than three times the size of its predecessor, allowing it to target more and larger investments.
Sheridan Production Partners, founded last September by oil industry vet Lisa Stewart and Warburg Pincus, has held a final close on $1.3 billion for its debut fund.
The Blackstone Group plans to acquire DJP, a supplier of musculoskeletal and vascular health services and supplies, as an add on for its portfolio company ReAble Therapeutics.
General Catalyst Partners, a US venture capital firm, and Capital Today, a Chinese private equity firm, recently led a $19 million funding round for Tudou.com, one of China’s most popular internet video website.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has made a co-investment of $10 million with GTI Group in GloriOil, a company formed by GTI in 2005 to commercialise a biotechnology that increases oil well efficiency.
Bahrain-based Investcorp will buy a majority stake in Berlin Packaging, just weeks after the first close on its latest fund.
Paul Capital Investments has added former GE Asset Management VP Dan Townsend to its growing ranks.