Private Equity
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) has appointed Robert O'Brien to lead its global real estate group. O'Brien, already a vice chairman with Deloitte in the U.S., will also continue as the U.S. real estate leader.
3 min read · 14 March 2013
After their purchase of BioClinica, a clinical train management services firm, and the medical imaging and cardiac safety services company CoreLab Partners, middle market firms JLL Partners and Ampersand Capital Partners have combined the two companies under the name BioClinica.
5 min read · 14 March 2013
Omaha, Neb.-based Transgenomic, a biotech company, has secured an $8 million term and revolving credit facility from Third Security LLC, a life sciences investment firm with offices in Radford, Virginia, Palm Beach, Fla., and San Francisco.
3 min read · 14 March 2013
Medigus, an Israel-based medical device company, has raised $8 million from OribMed Israel Partners LLC, an affiliate of the healthcare investment firm OrbiMed Advisors. In exchange, OrbiMed was issued 30.7 percent of Medigus's shares.
3 min read · 14 March 2013
Most venture firms specialize in sectors. But a low-flying venture capital firm is beginning to approach LPs and entrepreneurs with a simple new kind of pitch: its partners can help startups obtain what they most need -- customers.
3 min read · 14 March 2013
While in the U.S., the picture for women in the field of private equity remains largely unchanged, a decidedly different picture is emerging in Asia, says Preqin, the PE data provider.
2 min read · 14 March 2013
Google switches things around at the top, Twitter is reportedly preparing a music discovery app that could be released in weeks, Fisker founder Henrik Fisker says see ya later, alligators, and so much more!
1 min read · 13 March 2013
Spiral Genetics, a Seattle-based bioinformatics company, has raised $3 million led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
2 min read · 12 March 2013
IMS Health, a Parsippany, N.J.-based healthcare industry data firm, has acquired Appature, a Seattle-based software company that had raised roughly $10 million, including from Madrona Venture Group and Ignition Partners. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
2 min read · 12 March 2013
Catchpoint Systems, a New York-based maker of online performance monitoring software, has raised $3.2 million in Series A financing led by Battery Ventures. Catchpoint was founded in 2008.
4 min read · 12 March 2013
