Castle Harlan, the New York private equity investment firm, announced today that Champ Private Equity, its Australian affiliate, has invested AUD80m in Centric Wealth, a high-end financ

Richard Lambert, director-general of UK employers’ group CBI, has called on the government to consider funding an investment corporation like the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corpo

MMC Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in UK growth companies, today has invested a further GBP0.5m of equity in Ibis Project Services.

Candover Investments has halted further commitments to its 2008 fund and has revealed a decline in net asset value per share of 50 per cent to 1026p.

Private equity firm the Carlyle Group has completed raising its second mezzanine investment fund, Carlyle Mezzanine Partners II, with equity commitments of USD553m.

Octopus Investments, a UK alternative investment specialist, has announced the provision of GBP2.65m of flexible debt refinancing to CSL Dualcom, a supplier of dual signalling alarm sys

UK public development finance institution CDC has joined forces with the Shell Foundation charity and African SME finance and development company GroFin to highlight the potential of gr

The volume of mergers and acquisitions involving UK companies fell to 165 transactions in the final quarter of 2008, 25 per cent lower than the 220 transactions in the previous quarter,

Pan-African private equity house Kingdom Zephyr has completed a EUR14.3m investment in Thunnus Overseas Group, a producer and distributor of canned tuna in Africa with operations in Cot