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Penta, Eastbridge up bid for EM&F again to $136 mln

Czech private equity group Penta Investments and investment fund Eastbridge raised their joint bid for Polish retailer Empik Media & Fashion (EM&F) to 10.45 zlotys per share.


China move to tighten funding to hit foreign buyout firms

China yuan funds of overseas PE firms to be treated as foreign. China plans to treat local money raised and managed by global private equity firms as foreign funds, industry sources said on Tuesday, restricting their access to sectors such as media and mining in the world's second-biggest economy.

Ex-Perry Cap Ercil raises $440 mln in PE style hedge fund-source

Alp Ercil, the former Asia head of Perry Capital, has raised $440 million for a private-equity style hedge fund that will focus on distressed investment opportunities in credit and equities in the Asia-Pacific.

Temasek, RRJ to invest $468 mln in US LNG plant

Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings and Asia-based private equity firm RRJ Capital have agreed to invest $468 million in Cheniere Energy.


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Singapore Telecommunications Ltd is close to acquiring a Silicon Valley-based mobile advertising startup.
Total capital proceeds of recent investment round increased to $53 million. Celladon Corp. , a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative treatments for cardiovascular diseases, announced the receipt of additional capital proceeds from a second close of its recent venture financing to advance the Company's lead investigational product candidate MYDICAR® for the treatment of advanced heart failure.
Bregal Private Equity Partners has announced today that Giselle Bright andSarah Claypool have joined the firm with a focus on private equity funds and co-investments.
The Intelligent Language Learning Company Also Appoints New Board Members and Readies for Rapid Growth in 2012.
The Paliwoda Group Announces its Health Tech Fund to Provide Seed-Stage Investments in Innovations That Lower Healthcare Costs.
Women Have Made Huge Strides in Executive Ranks, but IPOs Still Appear to be a Man’s Game When it comes to a company’s critical stock market debut, investors are less likely to trust their money to an enterprise led by a female CEO, a University of Utah researcher says.
Revenues for the worldwide Hadoop-MapReduce ecosystem software market are considered to be $77 million in 2011 and are expected to grow to $812.8 million in 2016 for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 60.2%.
The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) has signed two agreements to sell a substantial majority of its businesses in China for $134 million in total aggregate proceeds.
NXT Energy Solutions Inc. today announced the closing of a non-brokered private placement financing (the “Financing”) of 1,303,333 units (the “Units”) for proceeds of US $977,500.
Funding Directed to Expand Development of New Technology Platforms Throughout North America. Monteris Medical Inc. , a privately held medical device company dedicated to the development of innovative MRI guided, laser-based cancer treatments has secured $9 million in financing to support the continued commercialization of the company's NeuroBlate™ System (formerly AutoLITT®) within the North American neurosurgery market.