Quality Technology Services, a provider of data centre facilities and managed services, has entered into an investment partnership with global growth investor General Atlantic. Under terms of the partnership, GA will invest USD150m into QualityTech. The investment will be used to grow existing and new data centres and continue development

Aureos Capital, a private equity fund management company, has sold a 13 per cent stake held by one of its funds in the Sri Lankan trading software company MillenniumIT to the London Stock Exchange Group. The company has been acquired by the London Stock Exchange Group for USD30m.   MillenniumIT

Fifth Third Bank has formed a focused private equity lending team, Fifth Third Sponsor Leveraged Finance. The team will provide cash flow financings to a select group of private equity clients and will target businesses with USD10m to USD50m in earnings before interest, taxes depreciation and amortization. Managing directors Brian

Venture capital investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Scale Venture Partners have sold their investments in Omniture to Adobe Systems. Adobe is a provider of diversified software solutions, while Omniture is a provider of online business optimization software. Adobe, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Snowbird Acquisition, has completed its tender offer

Mission Bay Capital, a newly-formed venture capital firm focused on bioscience companies emerging from the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences and the University of California, has formed its first venture fund. The USD7.5m Mission Bay Capital Fund will be invested in breakthrough companies whose founders or technologies are associated with

A syndicate led by Sofinnova Partners, a Paris-based venture capital firm, has completed a USD12m series A investment in DNP Green Technology, a developer of technologies for molecules to the chemical industry. In addition to Sofinnova, which participated with USD8m in this round, investors include Mitsui Venture Partners, Samsung Ventures

Rock Hill Capital Group’s portfolio company Integrated A/V Systems has completed the acquisition of a majority interest in Creative Presentations, headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. Integrated A/V is a full service integration and reseller of audio and video equipment including interactive whiteboards, projectors, LCD and plasma displays, audio systems, and

Global private equity firm The Carlyle Group has agreed to acquire 100 per cent of the outstanding shares of Broadleaf, one of the largest auto after-market software providers to the repair and inspection industry in Japan. Broadleaf is currently owned by Olympus and ITX. The transaction is scheduled to close