VENTURE CAPITAL POST

The IPO of state-backed power firm Meridian Energy would raise USD 1.6 billion or NZD 1.88 billion for New Zealand.

Health officials still could not find an answer to what killed 600 pets linked to jerky treats made in China.

Teads closed its Series A investment round with USD 5.2 million from Partech Venture and Elaia Partners.

Sideris Pharmaceuticals Inc received USD 32 million in capital commitments in its Series A funding round.

Canso Select Opportunities Fund closed its Toronto IPO with USD 90 million.

Blackstone Group and GIC agreed to buy a 28.5% stake each in Rothesay Life, the European insurer of Goldman Sachs.

Bill Gates bought a 6% stake in Spain's FCC for EUR 113.5 million.

RadioShack Corp received a five-year financing worth USD 835 million.

GDF Suez would be buying an ownership stake in 13 licenses in the Bowland basin of England from Dart Energy.

Uniqa Insurance would be purchasing Baloise Holding's Croatian and Serbian units in a deal worth EUR 75 million.

Sources told Bloomberg that Jaiprakash Power Ventures would be selling its hydropower facilities to Abu Dhabi National Energy.

Goldman Sachs Group raised EUR 289 million from selling 7 million of shares in German property company LEG Immobilien.

Michael Vick of the Philadelphia Eagles was ranked as the most-disliked player of the National Football League for 2013.

Reebok North America President Uli Becker would be leaving his post as part of a management shakeup.

President Barack Obama caught a pregnant woman while he was making his speech about the Affordable Care Act in the Rose Garden.