Jun 13, 2013 | Brazil, Latin America, News
Bloomberg BusinessWeek May 10 2013 Patria Investimentos SA, the private-equity fund partially owned by Blackstone Group LP (BX), and Kinea Investimentos Ltda are buying medical-diagnostic providers, betting a slowdown at insurers that pay for tests is temporary. Kinea...
Jun 13, 2013 | China, East Asia, France, News, Western Europe
(Reuters) – French perfume and cosmetics retailer Nocibe has received expressions of interest from German perfume-to-books group Douglas Holding and from French private equity firm LBO France in an alliance with Chinese conglomerate Fosun, French daily Le Figaro...
Jun 13, 2013 | News, Western Europe
LONDON, June 13 (Reuters) – Cinven raises EUR 5.3BN for its fifth europoean buyout fund.
Jun 13, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News 13 June 2013 Russian tech fund Softline Venture Partners and the Moscow Seed Fund announced last week that they have closed a funding deal with ITMan, a startup providing SMB companies with SaaS (software as a service) solutions to control IT...
Jun 13, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow (Reuters) – Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev has been in talks with investors about selling his 4.5 percent stake in flagship carrier Aeroflot OAO, the tycoon was quoted as saying on Thursday by business daily Vedomosti. Lebedev, an outspoken tycoon...
Jun 12, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
MOSCOW, June 11 (Reuters) – Billionaire American industrialist Leonard Blavatnik has led a $130 million round of financing for Russian online fashion retailer Lamoda, the company said on Tuesday. Russia’s e-commerce industry, dominated by local players...
