VENTURE CAPITAL POST

Swedish global investment company EQT will return 20% of Ottobock's investment to its significant shareholders.

French investment firm Wendel and Nordic Capital are the remaining bidders for Germany's medical patch maker LTS Lohmann. The acquisition deal could bring in EUR1.2 billion to the company owned by Novartis, BWK and German tycoon Dietmar Hopp.

Helsinki-based Sanitec Corporation planned to launch an initial public offering on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The bathroom ceramics and fixtures maker is owned by EQT.

Private equity company EQT invested CHF 44 million in Swiss Smile.

Private equity firms Bridgepoint and EQT express interest in purchasing refrigeration equipment company AHT Cooling.

EQT hired Morgan Stanley for the sale of Swedegas, a Swedish gas grid operator, for a deal valued at Eur500 million.

According to two sources, Springer Science's owners have entered new and intense discussions with BC Partners after rejecting the latter's previous offered bid.

Mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process.

Private equity group EQT agreed to buy German bandage and plaster cast maker BSN medical for about 1.8 billion euros.

Bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies.

Sweden is to close a loophole used by private equity groups and others to avoid tax.

Electronics testing equipment maker Agilent Technologies Inc would buy Denmark-based cancer diagnostics company Dako for $2.2 billion in cash.