Aurora Capital Group, a Los Angeles based private equity firm with over USD 2 billion of assets under management, announced that its affiliate Aurora Resurgence, has sold New Star Metals Inc and its Premier Resource Group and Electric Coatings Technologies subsidiaries to an affiliate of Insight Equity Holdings LLC.

In conjunction with this transaction, Aurora Resurgence also sold the US Metals and Supply division of New Star to Custom Steel Processing Inc, based in Madison and retained its ownership of Miami Valley Steel Service.

Under Aurora Resurgence's ownership, Piqua, Ohio based Miami Valley will continue to provide value added processing and distribution of sheet steel products to a diverse array of end markets.

Mr Louis Moran president of Miami Valley said that "The Miami Valley team is excited to continue its partnership with Aurora Capital and grow as an independent company by delivering the same uncompromised level of customer service and quality to which its customers have grown accustomed."

Mr Gerald Parsky chairman of Aurora stated that "This is an excellent result for our investors, and we would like to thank Mr Pat Murley and the company's outstanding management team for their contributions to New Star. We wish the company success and look forward to continuing our partnership with Miami Valley, an exceptional value added processor and distributor of sheet steel products."

Mr Steve Smith, Partner at Aurora Resurgence, commented that "This transaction is another example of Aurora Resurgence successfully executing upon a highly complex transaction in order to generate outstanding returns for our limited partners. We look forward to continuing to grow Miami Valley with Louis Moran and his team in order to further augment the great success of this platform investment."

Moelis & Company and TheSeaportGroup advised Aurora on the sale of New Star Metals and Brown Gibbons Lang & Company also advised Aurora on the sale of US Metals.

Source - Aurora Capital Group

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