New Venture Partners has joined the venture capital arm of Unilever in funding MiLife Coaching, a UK-based provider of biometric devices such as wristbands and scales designed to help people to achieve and maintain weight loss.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK mid-market firm has rewarded three members of its investment team following a spate of deals in 2008.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
JC Flowers, Dune Capital and Stone Point Capital are among the investors purchasing the Californian mortgage lending bank which defaulted last July.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Oliver Blechner has resigned amid reported rumours of a personality clash at the top.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The global private equity firm has made the hire to support its investment advisory activities in the financial services sector.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
California-based firm SolFocus has secured funding from venture capital firms including Apex, NEA and NGEN Partners to expand its solar panel manufacturing business. This is the first time Apex has invested in clean technology.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Chesapeake Energy has sold natural gas reserves, with a production value of 98 billion cubic feet of gas, to the US private equity firm Argonaut in a volumetric production payment transaction.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Government Pension Fund of Thailand has selected the Swiss private equity advisory firm to help implement a $330 million global private equity expansion plan.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Cairo-based private equity firm specialising in investment in the Middle East and North Africa has appointed Ghada Hammouda to manage its communication strategy as it seeks to widen its investor base.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Hong Kong real estate investment manager Gaw, formerly Gateway Capital, is planning to raise a third fund for China.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
