Avista Capital Partners and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, through its private investor department Teachers’ Private Capital, have signed an agreement to acquire INC Research from an investor group led by Crosspoint Venture Partners and Adams Street Partners. INC Research is a privately-held, therapeutically focused contract research organisation with expertise in

Arsenal Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, has partnered with fixed income industry veterans Levent Kahraman and Dan Goldman to launch KGS-Alpha Capital Markets. KGS-Alpha is a New York-based institutional fixed income broker-dealer, focusing on mortgage-backed, asset-backed, and agency debt securities. Kahraman’s expertise includes 15 years at Salomon

Channel Islands law firm Carey Olsen has advised Masawara on its listing on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. Masawara is a Jersey incorporated company focused on acquiring interests in companies and projects based in Zimbabwe and the southern African region. The company seeks to obtain long-term

Intel has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire McAfee through the purchase of all of the company’s common stock at USD48 per share in cash, for approximately USD7.68bn. Both boards of directors have unanimously approved the deal, which is expected to close after McAfee shareholder approval, regulatory clearances and

Maranon Capital has provided a senior debt investment to Veritext, a provider of deposition and litigation services to law firms, insurance companies and corporations. Maranon has also added two associates, Jeannie Y. Chen and Michael D. Vieth, to its Chicago-based investment team. In the Veritext transaction, Maranon committed USD20m as

The merger and acquisition deal activity in the global engineering and construction sector shows continued momentum in quarter two 2010, according to reports from PricewaterhouseCoopers. The near-term outlook remains favourable for continued growth, as the first half of 2010 has seen 30 more deals than the first half of 2009.

Law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman has advised MakeMyTrip on its USD70m initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Market. MakeMyTrip is the first ever Mauritius incorporated company to list on a major New York stock exchange. Conyers Dill & Pearman advised MakeMyTrip on Mauritius law aspects of the listing

Summer Street Capital Partners, a private equity fund based in Buffalo, New York, has completed an equity investment in Action Environmental Services, a provider of waste management services for the business community in the City of New York. The investment will support the acquisition of select New York City assets