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ALLIANCE PLANS GLOBAL EXPANSION; TARGETS WORLD’S FASTEST GROWING CRIME
AUSTIN, Texas, January 14, 2010– Investcorp Technology Partners, the technology private equity arm of alternative investment manager Investcorp, announced today that its Fund III has agreed to acquire an equity stake in CSIdentity, the Austin, Texas-based technology leader in identity theft and fraud protection services. CSIdentity was [...]

宾夕法尼亚州 HORSHAM 2010年1月6日电 — 领先的软件和服务解决方案供应商 Liquent, Inc. (Liquent) 欣然宣布，该公司已经被 Marlin Equity Partners (Marlin) 通过汤森路透 (Thomson Reuters) 收购。Liquent 的解决方案旨在支持生命科学企业符合监管要求的业务程序。Marlin 总部位于加州洛杉矶，是一家领先的私人投资公司，管理资金超过10亿美元。
Liquent 是全行业唯一完全整合而又可升级的监管信息管理平台 Liquent InSight(R) 的供应商。InSight 可以用于客户组织的各个部门，支持生命科学企业的开发、注册和生产等过程。通过其监管和临床服务咨询服务团队，Liquent 还提供全面的外包服务，支持生命科学企业提交符合监管要求的文件及其注册管理活动。Liquent的总经理 Rick Riegel 将作为该公司的首席执行官继续承担领导职务。
Rick Riegel 评论说：“我们为与这样一家有实力的私募股权企业合作而感到非常振奋。Marlin 带来了重大财力和医疗保健信息科技领域的专门知识。我们期待着借助他们的支持，以及 Liquent 全面的软件与服务解决方案、行业领导地位和对客户服务的专注，加快我们的发展，并且提高服务于生命科学行业不断发展、快速变化的需要的能力。”
Marlin Equity Partners 医疗保健经营合伙人 Jim Brady 表示：“Marlin 注意到生命科学行业经常疲于应对监管方面的变化、新产品许可和成本压力。Marlin 的支持，再加上 Liquent [...]

Entrepreneur Magazine Names Massage Envy One of the 20 Fastest-Growing Franchises in 2009
NEW YORK, January 4, 2010– Sentinel Capital Partners, a private equity firm that invests in promising smaller middle-market companies, has acquired Massage Envy, LLC. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Massage Envy is the nation’s largest provider and franchisor of therapeutic massage services. Financial terms [...]

NEW YORK & DALLAS, December 22, 2009– CI Capital Partners LLC, a New York-based private investment firm, and J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., Swift Transportation, U.S. Xpress Enterprises and Covenant Transportation Group, Inc., today announced that an affiliate of CI Capital Partners has acquired Transplace, a leading provider of non-asset based third party logistics (“3PL”) [...]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., December 22, 2009– MTS Medication Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqCM:MTSI), an international provider of medication adherence packaging systems, today announced the completion of its previously announced merger with an affiliate of Excellere Partners, LLC. At a special meeting held on December 18, 2009, the stockholders of MTS voted to approve the Agreement and Plan [...]