VENTURE CAPITAL POST

Women's boutique retailer Francesca's Holdings Corp. has ousted Lululemon as the most attractive company to date to land private equity bids.

State-owned Mubadala Development Co and Amsterdam-based Trafigura Beheer submitted joint bids for Eike Batista's MMX Mineracao & Metalicos.

RHJ International had said that Germany's banking regulator would probably give its decision on its planned acquisition of BHF-Bank by September's end.

Founders of ENRC announced that investors had already accepted up to 94.5% of its buyout offer.

The purchase of Elster helped Melrose Industries increase its revenues for the first half of this year.

MMG Ltd expressed interest in working together with partners as it seeks to further grow its business.

Verizon is now in discussion with banks to fund the USD130 billion buyout offer for Vodafone's 45% shareholdings.

A PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) pension fund had been talking with CA Immo on buying a stake in Tower 185, Germany's fourth-tallest skyscraper.

Australia's AGL Energy Ltd said that weakened demand prompted the company to delay the development of its power plants.

Plains All American Pipeline LP offered USD740 million in stock to buy the 54% of PAA Natural Gas Storage LP that it does not already own.

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is close to concluding purchase of White Gardens, a top-end office complex in Moscow's business district.

Generic eye drug manufacturer Akorn said that it would be buying Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co Inc in a deal worth USD 640 million.

French oil and gas company Total said that it would be buying the retail network of US-based Chevron in Egypt.

AstraZeneca has been looking at another acquisition deal even after spending almost USD1 billion in acquisitions earlier this year.

Resilience Capital Partners acquired CableNet Services Unlimited through its newly-formed company CableNet Communications.