Private equity form CVC wants to sell its Danish retailer Matas while Nordic peer Altor is preparing to sell Swedish food supply business Eurocater.

Israel's IDB Development Corp sold 49.9 percent out of its 60.5 percent stake in Clal Industries and Investments (CII) to U.S.-based Access Industries for 1.27 billion shekels ($325 million).

U.S. buyout fund Carlyle Group LP said on Thursday it has acquired 49 percent and effective control of China's Mandarin Hotel Holdings Ltd for an undisclosed sum.

Charterhouse is close to selling French engineering group Fives to AXA Private Equity Charterhouse is close to selling French engineering group Fives to AXA Private Equity, people familiar with the deal said, potentially the second big sale for the British private equity firm in just one week.

British bid vehicle Tungsten Corporation will make a second attempt at floating on the London Stock Exchange in the autumn.

Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC is pushing ahead with a $4 billion sale of Getty Images Inc.

One Equity Partners, JP Morgan Chase & Co's private investment arm, will buy technology services firm M*Modal for about $1.1 billion in cash.

Australian regulators are probing the withdrawn A$1.65 billion ($1.7 billion) takeover offer for David Jones by a little-known Britain-based firm.

U.S. investment manager BlackRock (BLK.N) is buying Swiss Re's (SRENH.VX) European private equity arm

The subtext of JPMorgan's landmark deal to buy crude and sell gasoline for the largest oil refinery on the U.S. East Coast was barely disguised.