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  Rutland Partners, the specialist turnaround and restructuring investor, is pleased to confirm the formal completion of the sale of Attends Healthcare Group to Domtar Corporation for €180 million, pursuant to the definitive agreement signed on 26 January 2012. The four year investment programme and operational restructuring...

Rutland Partners, the specialist turnaround and restructuring investor, is pleased to announce the conditional sale of Attends Healthcare Group to Domtar Corporation for an enterprise value of €180 million. The transaction is conditional only on customary regulatory clearances and is expected to complete in late...

Rutland Partners, the specialist turnaround and restructuring investor, is pleased to announce that Brandon Hire has acquired Phoenix Surveying Equipment, a leading supplier of construction related electronic surveying and safety equipment. Brandon Hire was acquired by Rutland in September 2010 from Wolseley PLC for £43m. Phoenix...

Rutland Partners, the turnaround and restructuring investor, is pleased to announce the simultaneous acquisitions of Laidlaw and the interiors manufacturing division of SIG plc (SIGIM). Rutland is investing alongside John Jefferies, CEO of Laidlaw. Laidlaw is the UK’s leading supplier of architectural ironmongery, doorsets, handrail...

Rutland Partners is pleased to announce the exchange of unconditional contracts with Wolseley PLC (“Wolseley”) for the acquisition of Brandon Hire Limited (“Brandon”). The consideration will be £43m payable in cash on completion subject to normal closing adjustments. Brandon is a leading tool and equipment hire...

Rutland Partners, the UK private equity partnership, announces that it has exchanged contracts to acquire the CeDo group of companies (“CeDo”) from DELTON AG, Bad Homburg / Germany (“Delton”) for an undisclosed sum. The transaction is conditional on merger control clearances and is expected to...

Rutland Partners LLP (“Rutland”), the UK private equity partnership, announces that it has exchanged contracts to acquire Pulse Home Products Limited and the business of certain other domestic appliance brands (together “Pulse”) from Alba PLC for a total consideration of £51.5 million. The transaction is...

Rutland Partners LLP, the UK private equity partnership, announces that it has completed the sale of its investment in Svensk Pantbelåning AB (“SP”) to Preato Capital Ltd. Preato Capital is the parent company of Finland’s largest pawnbroker, Helsingin Pantti-Osakeyhtiö. SP is Sweden’s leading pawnbroker with 12...

Rutland Partners LLP (“Rutland”), the UK private equity partnership, announces that it has acquired Attends Healthcare Holdings Limited (“Attends”) from 3i plc for €93.5 million. Attends is the trading name of the European operations formerly known as PaperPak which 3i acquired in 2002. Attends manufactures and...

Rutland Partners, the UK private equity partnership, announces that one of its portfolio companies, Wolstenholme Group Limited (“Wolstenholme”), has today announced the sale of the business, certain assets and goodwill of its metallic effect pigment and metallic printing ink business (“the Metallics Business) to Eckart...