Aureos Latin America Fund is investing up to USD10m in ITS InfoComunicacion, a provider of remote infrastructure management services with headquarters in Costa Rica.  ALAF is an initiative of Aureos Capital, a private equity fund management company specialising in investing in small to mid-sized businesses in emerging markets.   This

Yorkville Advisors, a US based investment manager to a family of funds, has invested USD15m into United Fiber System through the subscription of a series B equity line backed loan note. The investment was sourced out of Hong Kong and made by YA Global Master SPV, a Yorkville affiliated fund.

The number of global M&A deals announced in Q1 to Q3 2009 is the lowest since Q3 2003, while deal values are at their lowest since Q1 2003, according to a report by mergermarket. Activity to date is at 5,914 transactions valued at USD978.9bn, a decline of 41 per cent

Emerging Capital Partners, an international private equity firm focused on investing across the African continent, has committed USD25m to Wananchi Group, an East African media and telecommunications company specialising in pay television and high-speed internet services in Kenya and Tanzania.  ECP’s equity investment will be used to upgrade and expand

Amalgamated Bank has formed Amalgamated Capital, a New York-based division that will provide senior cash flow debt financing to lower middle market companies. The new division, which will be under the direction of leveraged finance professional Timothy G. Clifford, will target leading private equity firms and other investors who focus

The percentage of transaction professionals who believe solvency opinions will have a direct impact on the terms or completion of a transaction over the next year has doubled since before the onset of the credit crisis, according to a study released by mergermarket in association with Houlihan Lokey. This shift

TPH Partners, a middle market energy private equity fund, has closed an equity investment in a growth round of funding for Ingrain, an oilfield technology firm that specialises in digital rock physics analysis. Ingrain uses proprietary technologies to analyse reservoir rock samples from cores or drill cuttings and deliver critical

Navitas Capital, a venture capital firm investing in green technology solutions for the built environment, has participated in a USD60m series C investment in Serious Materials. According to an Ernst & Young analysis based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource, this transaction represents one of the largest US venture capital