UK/Germany: UK-based private equity firm Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP has agreed to divest Armacell International SA in a deal that values the German insulation materials firm at Euro960m, according to Reuters. Charterhouse, which paid Euro520m for Armacell in 2013, will sell it to private equity funds managed by US Blackstone Group LP. The transaction is scheduled to close in the first quarter of 2016. Armacell reported net sales of Euro452m in 2014.