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 announces that it has successfully closed its second fund, Rutland Fund II, at £322 million. Rutland Fund II had a target of £250 million and held a first close at £312 million in December 2006 following four months of fundraising. The final close...
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...
Rutland Partners LLP (“Rutland”), the UK private equity partnership, announces that The Rutland Fund (“the Fund”) has today realised its investment in H&T Group Limited (“H&T”) for cash through an AIM listing. The enterprise value of H&T on flotation is £91.9 million and the market...
Rutland Partners (“Rutland”), the UK private equity partnership, announces that The Rutland Fund has agreed the sale of its entire interest in Carron Energy Limited (“Carron”), the owner of Uskmouth Power Station (“Uskmouth”) to a specially formed company backed by Deutsche Bank AG and funds...
Rutland Partners (“Rutland”), the UK private equity partnership, announces that it has agreed the sale of Interfloor Group Limited (“Interfloor”) to a management team backed by European Acquisition Capital (“EAC”) in a secondary buy-out for a consideration of £84.1 million. Interfloor is the largest manufacturer of...
Rutland, the UK private equity partnership, announces that one of its portfolio companies, The Music Group Limited (“TMG”), has completed the sale of its Buffet Crampon clarinet business for €37 million (approximately £25 million). Following a competitive sale process, the business has been sold in...