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BASF has completed its previously-announced $1.02 billion acquisition of Becker Underwood, an Ames, Iowa-based provider of seed-applied biological products, from Norwest Equity Partners. NEP first acquired Becker Underwood back in 2004. www.beckerunderwood.com

Linden Capital Partners
has sold Behavioral Centers of America, a Nashville, Tenn.-based owner and operator of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care facilities, to Acadia Healthcare Co. (Nasdaq: ACHC). No financial terms were disclosed. Other selling shareholders include Health Enterprise Partners and Siguler Guff & Co. www.bca-corp.com

One Equity Partners has sold Telwares Inc., a Pleasanton, Calif.-based consulting firm focused on network optimization and IT transformation, to Dallas-based advisory firm Alsbridge Inc. No financial terms were disclosed. www.telwares.com

Resilience Capital Partners has sold ChemDesign Products Inc., a Marinette, Wis.–based provider of custom toll manufacturing services to the global chemical industry, to Milwaukee-based investment firm Lubar & Co. No financial terms were disclosed. www.chemdesignproducts.com

U.S. Bank has agreed to acquire FSV Payment Systems, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based provider of prepaid and stored value programs for companies, governments and financial institutions. No financial terms were disclosed. FSV has raised over $6 million in VC funding from firms like Ballast Point Ventures, Berkley Capital and North Hill Ventures. www.fsvpaymentsystems.com

Smith & Nephew PLC (LSE: SN) has agreed to acquire Healthpoint Biotherapeutics, a Fort Worth, Texas-based biotech company focused on solutions for tissue repair and healing, for $782 million in cash. www.healthpointbio.com

Zillow Inc. (Nasdaq: Z) has agreed to acquire HotPads, a map-based rental and real estate search site headquartered in San Francisco. The deal is valued at $16 million in cash. HotPads had raised more than $2 million in VC funding from firms like Meakem Becker Venture Capital and the Investment Group of Santa Barbara. www.hotpads.com

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