iB3 Networks and its wholly owned subsidiary iBeam Solutions have been retained by White Oak Partners, a private investment management firm, to develop a hosted network system.

Zurmont Madison Private Equity has acquired a majority interest in language services provider CLS Communication.

Transactions in the Canadian market continue to be dominated by energy sector deals, with six of the ten largest deals in the first half of 2009 involving Canadian companies occurring i

Multi-jurisdictional law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman has formally opened its law office in Mauritius.

Crédit Agricole and Société Générale have signed a final agreement to combine their asset management operations.

MMC Ventures has led a follow-on investment round of GBP1.4m in primary healthcare company The Practice.

There were 519 M&A deals valued at USD102.5bn in the BRIC countries during the first half of 2009, representing a 34 per cent decline in volume from the same period last year and a

Pomona Capital, a global private equity firm, has held the final closing of its seventh secondaries fund, Pomona Capital VII, with commitments of USD1.3bn.

Despite the improvement in the financial markets and the expected transactions between FTSE 100 companies over the last quarter, the first half of 2009 was a dire period for the M&A

At the halfway point of 2009, private equity firms raised just over one-third the capital they were able to attract from pension funds, university endowments, foundations and other inve