Teachers’ Private Capital, the private equity arm of the Canadian pension, has launched its first foothold outside of Toronto with a London office led by Andrew Claerhout.

Angus Barker has left UBS to become head of financial sponsors for Asia Pacific at Deutsche Bank.

Hungarian Telephone & Cable has bought Invitel, a national telecoms business, for €470 million.

The Carlyle Group is in talks over the sale of Groupe Genoyer to CDC Capital Investissement, after around nine years invested in the company, marking another sale in the busy oil and gas sector.

American Capital Strategies affiliate European Capital has opened in Frankfurt and has hired Robert von Finckenstein to head the office.

European social networking site Netlog has just received its first round of funding from European venture capital firm Index Ventures. Its success in rolling out its model across different geographies illustrates how European venture firms can help local firms become global winners, says James Taylor.

The Dutch bank is giving its buyout and expansion capital teams greater freedom to raise external money, as Barclays bid for the whole business is recommended.

The Blackstone Group has completed the twice-delayed flotation of UK cinema chain Cineworld, as the group’s shares, reported to be three times oversubscribed, proved attractive to investors,.

Buyout firm Terra Firm has realised £200 million from the sale-and-leaseback of some of the property estate of UK off-licence chain Threshers.

Energy-focused Natural Gas Partners is set to acquire the power production and development businesses of MDU Resources Group for $636 million.