The Principles for Responsible Investment Initiative has published two documents that aim to support the integration of environmental, social and governance issues into private equity i

Healthcare private equity firm Water Street Healthcare Partners has acquired the pharmaceutical development division of AAIPharma.

American Capital has completed the sale of its online dating portfolio company People Media to Match.com, an operating business of IAC.

For the first half of the year mergers and acquisitions in Latin America reached a total of USD29.1bn and 167 deals, down from USD52bn and 261 deals during the same period last year, ac

Venture capital firms invested USD117m over 27 deals in India during the six months ending June 2009, according to a study by Venture Intelligence in partnership with the Global-India V

CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, has committed almost USD3.5bn to investments in poor countries since 2005, according to a report by the group.

HarbourVest Global Private Equity, a closed-end investment company listed on Euronext Amsterdam, has estimated its net asset value at USD635.2m, or USD7.65 per share, as of 30 June 2009

The State Street Private Equity Index returned -6.46 per cent in quarter one 2009, ending four consecutive quarters of downward trend.

Milestone Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm, has led a series B financing in IntegriChain, a provider of data solutions to the pharmaceutical industry.