Yorkville Advisors, the US-based alternative investment manager, has entered into a PLN50m standby equity distribution agreement on behalf of one of its funds with Warsaw Stock Exchange listed Calatrava Capital. Calatrava Capital is a Poland-based investment company specialising in IT services and software, energy and fast moving consumer goods.  

Intel Capital is making 18 new investments totalling approximately USD77m. The investments were announced at the 11th annual Intel Capital CEO Summit, Intel Capital’s gathering of portfolio company chief executives, corporate technology decision makers from Global 1000 companies and thought leaders from around the world. The new Intel Capital investments

Half of pension funds have recently altered the asset allocation of their investments, with the majority reducing exposure to equities in favour of alternatives, according to Baring Asset Management’s annual poll of UK pension schemes. Of the 50 per cent of pension professionals that had changed recently changed the asset

CIG, a wealth management and business advisory services firm, has launched a healthcare private equity fund, CIG Capital Partners. "The objective of CIG Capital Partners is to achieve above-average returns by investing in healthcare companies that we believe can deliver cost-effective services and products and have the ability to gain

Resilience Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has acquired Indiana Limestone.  This transaction is the second acquisition under Resilience’s industrial minerals platform, North Coast Minerals.  Indiana Limestone is a complementary business to Victor Oolitic Stone, which was acquired by Resilience in November 2009.  Like Victor Oolitic, Indiana Limestone has been

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, has partnered with management to complete the acquisition of Revenew International from Profit Technologies.  Revenew, based in Houston, Texas, is a cost recovery solutions firm which offers contract compliance, supplier payment review and process auditing.  The company serves a blue-chip

Canadian venture capital activity increased 20 per cent in the third quarter, according to data Thomson Reuters compiled for the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. The total investment for the latest third quarter totalled CAD261m (USD258m). “With two consecutive quarters of growth, Canadian VC activity in 2010 continues

Atlas Holdings has acquired Detroit Thermal, the City of Detroit’s underground district energy steam system, a Detroit-based energy-from-waste facility that produces steam and electricity from municipal waste, and Hamtramck Energy Services, which operates the private industrial steam plants at several General Motors facilities in Michigan. The acquired assets will operate

Citi’s Global Transaction Services has introduced a portfolio of custody services in the US, specifically for private equity funds. Citi says its services are particularly timely because of Securities and Exchange Commission regulations affecting custody of customer assets by registered investment advisers and the recently enacted Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform

Google Ventures has entered the holiday home rentals market by investing in HomeAway, parent company of HomeAway Holiday-Rentals and Owners Direct in the UK. Google purchased shares from existing shareholders to invest in the company.   HomeAway operates sites in 11 European countries plus sites in the US and Brazil.