Denham Capital Management, a USD2.3bn private equity fund manager focused on energy and commodities, has established a London office and hired Louis van Pletsen as managing director to run

Belgian- venture capital firm Capricorn Venture Partners has signed up LRM, the regional investment company from the province of Limburg, as investor in its new Capricorn Cleantech Fund.

European leading mid-market private equity firm Palamon Capital Partners has appointed as a vice-president Braam Verster, who was previously an associate principal in the London private eq

Coates Hire, Australia’s largest equipment hire company, has accepted an improved offer from the Carlyle Group and its smaller competitor National Hire Group worth AUD 1.7bn, offering shar

US private equity firm JC Flowers is said to have secured GBP15bn of funding from other banks to buy battered UK mortgage bank Northern Rock. It wants to keep the bank as a single entity.

Lynx Property, which is 75 per cent owned by AIM-listed private equity and property fund Equest Investments Balkans, has acquired a 75 per cent stake in Romanian retailer Domo Retail for a

Craegmoor Healthcare Group, a provider of long-term specialist care owned by Legal & General Ventures, has refinanced its whole business securitisation with a GBP255m bank facility arr

Navatar CRM for Private Equity, an on-demand customer relationship management application specially designed for private equity and venture capital firms, has been made available by Navata

Ignition Partners, a private investment group with offices in Bellevue, Washington, and Shanghai, has announced the launch of its fourth early stage venture fund, Ignition Ventures IV.

A total of 70 private equity funds raised USD21.5bn in the first half of 2007 for investment in the emerging markets of Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, compared wi