Baird Buys Zarges Tubesca Group

Baird Capital Partners Europe has sponsored a Euro 156 million management buyout of Zarges Tubesca Group, a European manufacturer of aluminum-based platform and elevator systems for industry, airports and wind power systems, from AlpInvest. Zarges Tubesca has dual headquarters in < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Weilheim, Germany and Ailly, France. www.bcpe.co.uk www.zarges.de