Minneapolis-based ATS Medical, a manufacturer and marketer of cardiac surgery products and services, has closed a USD20m equity financing with Essex Woodlands Health Ventures.

Celtic Therapeutics Management, a private equity firm based at Charlotte Amelie in the US Virgin Islands that focuses on building a portfolio of mid-to-late stage drug development progr

Mark Wignall, chief executive of Matrix Private Equity Partners, says a particularly good source of opportunity in 2009 will be UK public companies needing to raise cash and choosing to se

Low Carbon Accelerator, a closed-ended investment company listed on London’s AIM market, has increased its equity holding in wind turbine producer Proven Energy through a further invest

If current conditions continue into the New Year and financing remains limited, mergers and acquisitions activity in 2009 will be on the light side with a few silver linings, according

ECI, a UK mid-market buyout firm, has agreed to sell Racal Acoustics to Esterline Technologies for GDP115m.

Aureos South-East Asia Fund has invested USD5.6m in the Thai shipbuilding company Marsun, a designer, builder and service provider for vessels under 100 metres.

Bill Crossan, managing director of Close Growth Capital, says the first and second quarters of next year should see a reassessment of price expectations from vendors, creating opportunitie

The US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has selected investment firms BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan as strategic partners to manage USD2.5bn in assets and provide support t

The majority (88 per cent) of chief executives are optimistic about the future of private equity, according to a survey by Notch Partners.