If current conditions continue into the New Year and financing remains limited, mergers and acquisitions activity in 2009 will be on the light side with a few silver linings, according

ECI, a UK mid-market buyout firm, has agreed to sell Racal Acoustics to Esterline Technologies for GDP115m.

Aureos South-East Asia Fund has invested USD5.6m in the Thai shipbuilding company Marsun, a designer, builder and service provider for vessels under 100 metres.

Bill Crossan, managing director of Close Growth Capital, says the first and second quarters of next year should see a reassessment of price expectations from vendors, creating opportunitie

The US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has selected investment firms BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan as strategic partners to manage USD2.5bn in assets and provide support t

The majority (88 per cent) of chief executives are optimistic about the future of private equity, according to a survey by Notch Partners.

US venture capitalists are forecasting a difficult 2009 for the country’s economy, the capital markets and the venture industry, according to a survey by the National Venture Capital As

Neil MacDougall, managing partner of Silverfleet Capital, says the firm is well placed to thrive in 2009, with only one deal done in 2007 and a new fund to invest without any pre-credit cr

Macrovision Solutions has agreed to sell TV Guide Network to Allen Shapiro, a former president of Mosaic Media Group, and One Equity Partners for around USD255m, plus up to an additiona

Partners Group, the Switzerland based global alternative assets manager, has raised over USD1.1bn for its most recent Asia-Pacific programme, thereby exceeding the target size of USD1bn