The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, the country’s financial regulator, has invited comment from market participants on new draft rules it has published that are intended to

APEI SGR, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italian investment firm I2 Capital, has announced the final close of I2 Capital Partners Fund at EUR200m, up from an initial target of EUR180m.

IP Group, a intellectual property commercialisation company, has completed a second closing of IP Venture Fund, a venture capital fund established in July 2006 in partnership with the Euro

JMI Equity, a private equity firm exclusively focused on providing growth capital to software and business services companies, has announced the closing of its sixth fund, JMI Equity Fund

Darby Overseas Investments, the private equity arm of Franklin Templeton Investments, has closed its Darby Converging Europe Mezzanine Fund to new investors with total capital commitments

French investment company Eurazeo has reached an agreement with PAI Partners to acquire Elis, a pan-European provider of textile and hygiene rental and cleaning services, for an enterprise

Texas-based drilling contractor Pride International has agreed to sell its Latin America land-based drilling and workover business and its E&P Services business to Brazilian private eq

Kensington Capital Partners, an independent Canadian private equity fund investor, has acquired a secondary position in Novacap II, a diversified private equity portfolio originally formed

Zurich-based ViewPoint Capital Partners has announced the first closing of its second fund, Viewpoint Growth II, with total aggregate commitments currently amounting to EUR81m.

Creative Venture Partners has announced an investment in the TNWA Group, a developer of an online multiplayer gaming platform that has made its functionality and platform available through the