The recent privatization of Royal Mail creates an 'equity culture' in the UK. The strong demand for Royal Mail shares could become the watershed moment where retail investors return to share sales.
Funding
Snapdeal eyes new financing deal
A group of private equity investors, SoftBank and eBay had pumped in around USD150 to USD200 million worth of new funding to online marketplace Snapdeal.
GE pays off Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway warrants
A payment of USD260.7 million was paid to Berkshire Hathaway for the exercise of its warrants from General Electric Co.
New debt instruments issued by Wrigley to finance operations and manage debt
Wrigley issued a number of debt instruments with specific term lengths, yields and interest rates. An amount worth USD3 billion through a five bond offer was done by Mars Inc's Wm Wrigley Jr Co.
Dismissal of eminent domain case appealed to higher court
Richmond resident trustees have filed an appeal on a decision made by US District Judge Charles Breyer dismissing the eminent domain case.
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GI Partners' Datacore LP acquires Regent Commons, a property with LEED certification located near the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
OB10 is sold to Tungsten Corp for GBP100 million. The direct investment arm of the Fleming Family & Partners, FF&P Private Equity, had announced the sale of OB10 to Tungsten Corp for the sum of GBP100 million.
The quarterly report on angel group investment activities was recently released. A national survey of angel group investment activity was reported in the Q2 2013 Halo Report.
The consortium comprising of Indian Oil, ONGC Videsh and Oil India, as well as Repsol SA, would not be exercising the right of pre-emption of the vacated shares in the oil project previously owned by Petronas of Malaysia.
Imperial Capital Group backed STI Technologies with a USD 17 million investment. Toronto-based Imperial Capital Group announced its USD 17 million investment in reimbursement card provider STI Technologies.
According to a Techcrunch report, the initial public offering of enterprise cloud provider Veeva Systems saw its shares climbed almost 84% and had raised USD194 million.
500 Startups said in its recent US Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it would raise USD100 million to increase its investment in early-stage startups and put additional investment in startups it had already supported.
Pharmaceutical firm G1 Therapeutics scored USD 12.5 million from MedImmune Ventures and other investors in its Series A funding round.
Biopharmaceutical firm SAGE Therapeutics scored USD 20 million from ARCH Venture Partners and Third Rock Ventures in its Series B funding round.
