August & Debouzy has advised France Economie Régions (FER) on its bid to take over the French newspaper La Tribune.   France Economie Régions’ majority shareholder, the Hima Group, teamed up with the Hi-media Group, chaired by its founder, Cyril Zimmermann, for the bid.   The business plan consists in combining

Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has acquired majority ownership in FacilitySource, a provider of facility maintenance and management solutions to retailers and other multi-site operators. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. FacilitySource manages over 60,000 facilities worldwide via an elite service provider network, representing over USD1 billion in

A company owned by Permira, the European private equity firm, has successfully completed the acquisition of Genesys, a global expert in contact centre technology software, from Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU). Technology Crossover Ventures and certain co-investors of the Permira funds also participated in the transaction. The transaction values

Domo, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) venture launched by Omniture co-founder Josh James, has closed USD20 million in Series A-1 funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). This round brings total investment in Domo to USD63 million.   “Winning takes 100 percent focus,” says James. “While we weren’t in the market for

Better Capital has sold MentecPlus Integrated Solutions Limited (MentecPlus), a company within the BECAP Fund LP (the 2009 Fund) investment portfolio, to UNIT4 Business Software Holding BV (UNIT4), a NYSE Euronext-listed company. MentecPlus was acquired as part of the Calyx group of ICT managed services companies in September 2010. As

The Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (IVCA) is partnering with Cambridge Associates to provide extensive, independent Indian private equity and venture capital performance data to industry participants. As part of the strategic partnership, IVCA will give its members access to aggregate Indian private equity (PE) and venture capital

Global economic uncertainty and regulatory change will continue to impact M&A activity in the coming year, according to the latest trends insights by Clifford Chance. Worries about sovereign debt, global economic slowdown and the continued lack of a resolution to the Eurozone crisis are contributing to an unsettled global picture.

AlienVault, creator of OSSIM, the de-facto standard open source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution, has closed an USD8 million Series B financing led by new investor Trident Capital with participation from existing investors Adara Venture Partners and Neotec. The company has named Trident managing director J Alberto Yepez