Global economic uncertainty and regulatory change will continue to impact M&A activity in the coming year, according to the latest trends insights by Clifford Chance. Worries about sovereign debt, global economic slowdown and the continued lack of a resolution to the Eurozone crisis are contributing to an unsettled global picture.

AlienVault, creator of OSSIM, the de-facto standard open source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution, has closed an USD8 million Series B financing led by new investor Trident Capital with participation from existing investors Adara Venture Partners and Neotec. The company has named Trident managing director J Alberto Yepez

The Aureos South Asia Fund (ASAF) has completed a USD7million investment in Sai Security Printers Private Limited (Sai), a paper packaging company based in Faridabad and Bangalore, India. ASAF is managed by Aureos South Asia Managers Ltd, a subsidiary of Aureos Capital Limited, a private equity fund management company specialising

Independent Swiss private equity company, Constellation has selected Ipes as the administrator for its Constellation III German Asset Light Fund. The fund, which will focus on investing in growth companies in the service sector in German speaking Europe, reached its successful final closing in early December 2011. Ipes Luxembourg will

Physio-Control, a provider of emergency medical response technology for use in the intervention and treatment of cardio-respiratory sudden cardiac arrest and other medical emergencies, has completed the sale of the company to an affiliate of private investment firm Bain Capital.  The transaction, which was announced on 17 November, 2011, was

Alternative asset manager, Duet Group has made a significant investment into Dashen Brewery Plc. The investment will take the form of an equity injection from the newly formed Duet Beverages Africa Ltd, which will be managed by the Duet Africa Private Equity team, together with Vasari as the industrial partner.

Hogan Lovells has advised long-standing client UnitedHealth Group (UHG) on the acquisition of medical services outsourcing specialist FrontierMEDEX from private equity house MML Capital Partners and the senior management of FrontierMEDEX for an undisclosed sum in a transaction that closed on 22nd December 2011. UHG is a leading health care

Jazz FM, Neopolitan Music and The Ingenious Entertainment VCTs has completed a GBP2 million investment into the UK’s first three day, outdoor, camping jazz festival, Love Supreme Jazz Festival, to take place in Brighton in the summer of 2013. Launched this month, the Love Supreme Jazz Festival is set to

Venture capitalists put EUR4.4 billion into 1,012 deals for European companies in 2011, a 14% decline in investment and 19% decline in deal flow from 2010, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. This marks the lowest annual deal count for Europe since VentureSource began tracking the region in 2000. The fourth

MMC Ventures has led an GBP850,000 investment round in home-swapping website Love Home Swap. Love Home Swap (www.LoveHomeSwap.com) is an international holiday home exchange website founded by UK serial entrepreneur Debbie Wosskow. Love Home Swap launched in October 2011 to provide members with the opportunity to swap their homes for stylish