Castle Harlan, a New York private equity investment firm, has completed the acquisition of Pretium Packaging, a manufacturer of custom-designed specialty plastic containers for the food, pharmaceutical, personal care and household markets. In conjunction with the closing of the transaction, Pretium has acquired PVC Container, the parent of Novapak, which

Monomoy Capital Partners, a New York private equity fund, has acquired Casual Living USA from its family owners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Monomoy will consolidate business operations of Casual Living into its Boston Apparel Group platform, a catalogue and internet retailer of women’s value-priced apparel and accessories

Actis, an emerging markets private equity firm, has invested USD50m to acquire a substantial minority stake in Integreon, a provider of legal support, research and business services to law firms, financial institutions and corporations. As part of this investment, JM Trivedi, Actis’s head of South Asia, and Gautham Radhakrishnan, a

SEI has been selected by Fred Alger Management to provide operations outsourcing services for the firm’s separately managed account business. The deal is the latest in a series of recent high profile client wins for SEI in the separately managed account industry. Under the agreement, SEI will provide Alger with

2tor, a provider of online education services to universities, has closed USD22m in series B financing led by new investor Highland Capital Partners along with existing partners Redpoint Ventures, Novak Biddle Venture Partners and City Light Capital. The company will use the funding to increase resources dedicated to developing new

Redpoint Ventures has closed Redpoint IV, a USD400m early stage venture capital fund. Redpoint IV will be used to back entrepreneurs and companies that will help in the social and mobile internet, cloud computing and clean technology spaces. In the past six months, Redpoint entrepreneurs have realised liquidity totalling nearly

Augentius Fund Administration, a provider of fund administration services to the private equity and property fund sectors, has received final regulatory approval to administer Mauritian domiciled funds. “We have had increasing demand to provide services to funds domiciled in Mauritius, with two fund managers already appointing Augentius Mauritius” says J.P.

SkillSoft, a Dublin-based e-learning software provider, has agreed to be acquired by a group of private equity firms for USD1.1bn. Berkshire Partners, Advent International and Bain Capital Partners will pay USD10.80 per share in cash to SkillSoft shareholders, representing a premium of 11 per cent to SkillSoft’s closing share price