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The Carlyle Group has acquired a 25% stake in PT Solusi Tunas Pratama, a listed Indonesian telecom towers operator, according to Reuters. The deal is valued at around $100 million. www.carlyle.com

Fortissimo Capital has acquired Starhome, a Switzerland–based provider of international roaming solutions, from shareholders like Apax Partners and Comverse Technology (Nasdaq: CMVT). www.starhome.com

Garda World Security (TSX: GW) shareholders have approved a C$1.1 billion, or $12 per share, buyout offer from Apax Partners and company CEO Stéphan Crétier. www.garda.ca

New Mountain Capital has acquired ABB Concise Optical Group, a Coral Springs, Fla.-based distributor of soft contact lenses, from Riordan Lewis & Haden Equity Partners. No financial terms were disclosed. www.abbconcise.com

Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO) has agreed to sell its laboratory workstation unit to OpenGate Capital. No financial terms were disclosed, except that the business has around $175 million in annual revenue. www.opengatecapital.com

Ajubeo, a Boulder, Colo.–based provider of virtual private data centers and cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, has raised an undisclosed amount of private equity funding from an affiliate of Grey Mountain Partners. www.ajubeo.com

Bain Capital
, KKR and TPG Capital are among those circling BMC Software (Nasdaq: BMC), according to Bloomberg. BMC has a current market cap of around $6.6 billion. www.bmc.com

Champ Ventures
 and HabourVest Partners have jointly acquired a majority stake in Sea Swift, an Australian shipping company. No financial terms were disclosed, but PE Asia reports the deal was worth approximately A$100 million. www.seaswift.com.au

Evergreen Group Ventures
 has agreed to acquire Heelys Inc. (Nasdaq: HLYS), maker of children’s sneakers with wheels in the heels, for $13.9 million in cash (excluding $58.2m in cash and marketable securities held by Heelys, which is not included). www.heelys.com

Heartland Dental
, an Effingham, Ill.–based dental practice management company, has received takeover bids from Apax Partners, KKR and Madison Dearborn Partners, according to Reuters. The company could be valued at around $1.3 billion, while sellers would include CHS Capital Partners.www.heartlanddentalcare.com

Lagniappe Health Inc.
, a portfolio company of Calvert Street Capital Partners, has acquired OPUS-ISM, a Pine Brook, N.J.–based provider of pharmacy management systems. No financial terms were disclosed. www.opus-ism.com

Loadmaster Derrick & Equipment Inc.
, a Broussard, La.-based provider of onshore and offshore drilling equipment, has raised an undisclosed amount of private equity funding from Wynnchurch Capital.www.wynnchurch.com

Pivotal Group has acquired the assets of Pan Am Education, a Chandler, Ariz.–based provider of online blended learning solutions in 10 countries. www.panameducation.com

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