US venture capital funds Burrill and Khosla Ventures have invested in US company HCL CleanTech and its Israeli subsidiary.

Brookstone Partners, a private equity firm specialising in the middle-market, has launched Brookstone Partners Asset Management, an investment advisory group which aims to limit risk an

Block trading specialists JonesTrading Institutional Services has implemented Fidessa’s global trading technologies to grow its international trading business.

Octopus Ventures, an investor in early-stage and expanding companies, has made an investment of GBP1.1m into Phase Vision, a manufacturer of optical inspection solutions for high-speed,

Spice Finance, the financial services arm of B. K.

JPMorgan Chase has transferred 3,949,232 BinckBank shares to a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Aquiline Financial Services Fund and its affiliates as part of a derivative agreement.

Proteon Therapeutics has completed a second closing of its series B equity financing, securing an additional USD12m and increasing the total equity capital raised in this round to USD50

Ashmore Group, a publicly owned investment manager, has invested EUR5.1m in the London listed investment scheme, Ashmore Global Opportunities.

Eurazeo has exercised the increase option on its offering of bonds exchangeable for existing Danone shares from EUR500m to approximately EUR610m.

Advanced Plasma Power has entered into a partnership with Leveraged Green Energy, a private equity fund focused on investing in renewable energy assets, to deploy APP’s Gasplasma techno