Mid Europa Partners has commenced a tender offer to purchase the outstanding ordinary shares of Invitel Holdings, par value EUR0.01 per share, and any and all of the American depositary shares, each representing one Invitel share, which it does not currently own at a purchase price of USD4.50 per share.

Agro-Ecological Investment Management, a private equity and real estate asset management company, will launch its first fund, the Agro-Ecological Farmland Investment Fund 1, in the first quarter of 2010. The fund will invest in farmland in New Zealand, acquiring conventionally-managed farms and converting them to organic production. It will focus

Global private equity firm The Carlyle Group has acquired a 40 per cent stake in Medical Park Sağlık Hizmetleri, Turkey’s second largest healthcare services company.  The founding shareholders, the Sancak and Usta groups, will remain as significant investors in Medical Park. Carlyle’s all-equity investment will be used primarily to finance

Institutional investors remain committed to private equity investing, but seek greater portfolio transparency and higher quality reporting from managers amid growing liquidity and performance concerns, according to a survey by SEI. In a report on the survey’s findings, SEI asserts that private equity managers who standardise and institutionalise transparency practices

European private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners is to acquire Banco Popolare Ceská Republika, the Czech subsidiary of Italy’s Banco Popolare, subject to due diligence and regulatory approvals. Banco Popolare Ceská Republika, which incorporates a seven branch network, is a fully licensed Czech bank that serves corporate and retail customers.

Dolphin Equity Partners has recorded one of the largest single returns for limited partners among venture capital investors in 2009 with its sale of long-time investment Gomez to Compuware. Compuware’s USD295m cash acquisition of Gomez realised USD93m for Dolphin investors, a 770 per cent return. Dolphin was Gomez’s largest shareholder

Transcu Group, a Singapore Exchange Mainboard-listed company, has entered into a SGD72m equity line facility with YA Global Master SPV, a fund managed by Yorkville Advisors of New Jersey in the US.    The investment was sourced and advised by Yorkville Advisors HK.   Transcu, a life sciences company engaged

Swing Media Technology Group has entered into a SGD10m equity line facility with YA Global Master SPV, a fund managed by Yorkville Advisors.  Swing Media, a manufacturer and supplier of data storage products and peripherals, plans to use the funds for the group’s general corporate and working capital purposes and