MerchantBridge, a direct investment and private equity company, has signed and agreed terms to invest in Monaco Luxury Hotels & Resorts in a USD20m transaction. This is the second investment by MerchantBridge this year, following its acquisition of the 15-year lease of the Kerbala Cement Plant in conjunction with Lafarge. 

Dahlman Rose, an investment bank specialising in natural resources, transportation and other industries in the global supply chain, has, subject to regulatory approval, entered into a definitive agreement to receive a USD40m minority investment from private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners.  Dahlman Rose plans to use the proceeds for further

Hudson Ferry Capital, a New York-based private equity firm, has received its license from the Small Business Administration to operate Hudson Ferry Capital II as a small business investment company. Hudson Ferry Capital II is now a USD100m small business investment company focused on making buy-in investments in established, family-owned

The economy continues to be the number one concern of Washington’s venture capitalist community, according to the Washington Technology Industry Association’s Q3 2010 Venture Capital Outlook Survey. With the slowdown in the economic recovery, the majority of venture capitalists have predicted that the quality of new deal flow, the quality

Wellington Financial, a privately-held specialty finance firm, has provided USD5.5m in debt financing for IXC (dba Telekenex) based in Seattle, Washington and San Francisco. The financing provides Telekenex with capital to continue its growth and penetration in the managed voice and data services market. Telekenex’s primary venture capital investors include

After many months of gloomy M&A statistics, deal making activity is finally looking up again with a 25 per cent increase in terms of value reported for the first half of the year compared to the same time period last year. The report by mergermarket further reveals that the CEE

The Egyptian Refining Company, a partnership between Citadel Capital, its co-investors and the state-owned Egyptian General Petroleum, has signed a debt package of USD2.6bn to finance construction of its USD3.7bn second-stage oil refinery in the Greater Cairo Area. The refinery will produce over four million tons of refined products per

Axa Private Equity has acquired a 51.8 per cent share in the Rollon Group, a linear motion manufacturer based in Vimercate, northern Italy.   Rollon provides linear guides and actuators used in machine design applications for railways and other industries, including plant assembly, packaging design, transportation, manufacturing and medical device