GCP Infrastructure Investments has admitted 40,000,000 ordinary shares to trading on the Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s main market for listed securities.  The company has raised GBP40m through a placing and offer for subscription of 29,840,909 ordinary shares and the switching into 10,159,091 ordinary shares,

Copano Energy has issued USD300m of convertible preferred equity to an affiliate of TPG Capital, a private investment firm.  The series A preferred units were priced at USD29.05 per unit, a ten per cent premium to the 30-day volume weighted average price of Copano’s common units as of 19 July

MMC Ventures says it has attracted considerable interest in its new fund, an EIS venture capital fund specifically created for younger investors. The Growth Generation Fund, which was oversubscribed, closed today with over 60 new EIS investors. Rory Stirling, investment manager at MMC, says: “The interest in the MMC Growth

Societe Generale Securities Services and Credit Suisse (Deutschland) have signed an agreement on a partnership under which SGSS will provide Credit Suisse Asset Management in Germany with fund administration services. Credit Suisse Asset Management in Germany has decided to outsource its fund administration business to SGSS as a dedicated partner

Borders Group has closed on the previously announced transaction to sell Paperchase Products to Primary Capital, a UK-based private equity firm, for approximately USD31m. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Borders Group is a retailer of books as well as other educational and entertainment items. The company employs approximately 19,500 throughout

Boston-based Gazelle, a reCommerce service, has raised a USD12m series C round of investment led by Physic Ventures. Gazelle’s current investors, Venrock Associates and RockPort Capital, have also invested in this round of financing.  Last year, Gazelle’s business tripled as it attracted nearly 100,000 customers to trade in or recycle

Axa Private Equity has acquired 50 per cent of the capital of Autopista Trados 45 from Cintra, Ferrovial’s toll road subsidiary. The acquisition was made by Finavias, an investment vehicle for the infrastructure funds of Axa Private Equity. Autopista Trados 45 manages a 14.5 kilometre section of the M-45 highway

Highgate Associates and Enterprise Corporate Finance say their EIS fund for UK based high tech businesses is seeing huge interest from investors and entrepreneurs looking to defer capital gains tax commitments through the EIS investment vehicle. EIS funds are a tax efficient mechanism for investing and with the latest government

GenNx360 Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on industrial business-to-business companies with USD75m to USD500m in revenues, has acquired Maine Machine Products, a manufacturer of precision components and assemblies for the defence, oil and gas, and semiconductor industries. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Maine Machine Products operates