VENTURE CAPITAL POST

Johnson & Johnson received numerous preliminary offers from hedge funds interested in acquiring its Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit, said a Reuters report.

Blackstone Group had been in advanced talks with Bain Capital regarding the sale of 13.09% of its stake in Emcure Pharmaceuticals valued USD100 million.

Sources said that the most likely bidders for Panasonic’s healthcare unit are KKK, Toshiba Corp and a consortium led by Bain Capital.

Construction equipment company Blackhawk Specialty Tools received growth investments from Bain Capital and a few of the management earlier today.

Media sources had stated that Bain Capital was going to purchase stakes in PRUK for GBP200 million.

According to Bain Capital, India's slowing down resulted in lack of investment opportunities.

With a US$1.1 billion offer for the Cermaq's fish feed unit, Bain Capital and Altor complicated Marine Harvest's plans of acquiring the entire firm with a US$1.7 billion deal.

Shares of Bain Capital-backed Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc rose as much as 30 percent in their market debut

Bain Capital's Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. is expected to proceed with an IPO that could fetch as much as $212 million Friday.

An investigation by New York's top prosecutor into whether a group of private equity firms used a fee arrangement to dodge taxes may be undermined by the state's own public pension fund.

Several private equity firms including Bain Capital are considering a buyout offer for retailer Staples Inc.

Private equity firm Bain Capital LLC is the unnamed second bidder for Australian surfwear company Billabong International.

News and developments in Asia private equity from Reuters News for the week ending August 31.

Blackstone (BX.N), Bain Capital, KKR & Co (KKR.N) and Dubai's Abraaj Capital have been shortlisted for the second phase of an auction of a fifth of private Indonesian healthcare operator Siloam.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attempted to turn the national conversation back to his record as a business executive in an op-ed published on Friday in the Wall Street Journal.