Private Equity

The acquisition is the fourth since 2011 for OK Foods, an Arkansas-based subsidiary of Mexican poultry processor Industrias Bachoco.

ACG Materials’ purchase of Diamond Gypsum marks the seventh acquisition since the company entered H.I.G.’s portfolio in 2012.

Atlanta-based research firm eVestment reports an 85% increase in real asset allocations over the past year.

The Nordic private equity firm has made its first investment in the seafood sector through its maiden fund with the acquisition of a 75% stake in Milarex.

The author of a recent Boston Consulting Group report says 'there is a large, illiquid market of assets that is increasingly coming up for sale', which could benefit the private sector.

Kansas-based Creekstone Farms has been sold by the US private equity firm after 12 years of ownership to Japanese grain trader Marubeni Corporation.

The business was sold by Louis Dreyfus Company to Helios' third Africa-focused fund, a $1.1bn vehicle closed in 2013.

The use of subscription facilities by funds has seen its criticism, but the practice is not without its positives write Debevoise & Plimptons' Thomas Smith and Almas Daud.

TGAM Agribusiness Fund, which will invest debt to obtain non-controlling positions in family-owned businesses, added $9.6m in July to move it nearly halfway to its $600m target.

The global investment and advisory firm is helping select a sales manager for assets that remain within the listed timber fund after shareholders voted to wind the company down in June.