MMC Ventures, a venture capital firm which focuses on UK growth companies, has made its first cleantech investment of GBP1.1m in E-Stack.  E-Stack designs and manufactures ultra low-energy ventilation systems. The company’s patent-pending, controlled natural ventilation system reduces overall energy consumption of buildings by 50 per cent compared with buildings using conventional ventilation systems.  Almost half of all CO2 emissions globally are produced by the built environment; in the EU heating and cooling accounts for 40 per cent of these emissions.  E-Stack was spun out of the University of Cambridge in 2006 following a BP-funded research programme at the University’s

Navigation Capital Partners, an Atlanta-based middle market private equity group, has committed to invest up to USD15m in Definition 6, an interactive marketing and e-commerce agency.

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.