VENTURE CAPITAL POST

Goldman Sachs and private equity firm CVC Capital Partners Ltd have proposed a debt-for-equity swap for CVC's Australian television network Nine.

Private equity firm Carlyle Group said its $1.4 billion infrastructure fund agreed to buy U.S. power plant developer Cogentrix Energy LLC from Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The private equity arm of Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and American venture capital fund New Enterprise Associates (NEA) jointly invested about $54 million in an Indian healthcare firm.

News and developments in Asia private equity from Reuters News for the week ending June 22.

Mergers and acquisitions activity fell 25 percent worldwide in the first half of 2012 as global economic uncertainty reined in companies' expansion plans.

Goldman Sachs (GS.N) said on Tuesday it had rehired veteran banker Mark Schwartz in the role of chairman of its Asia Pacific unit.

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

Goldman Sachs (GS.N) is considering selling off Swedish oil group Svenska Petroleum Exploration in chunks, the Independent on Sunday reported.

Morgan Stanley expressed caution of Facebook’s revenue in the filing of an amended prospectus with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC).