Mar 12, 2013 | News, Western Europe
March 12 (Reuters) – U.S. private equity firm Centerbridge Partners is interested in the 315 UK branches being sold by state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
Mar 12, 2013 | News, North America
TechCrunch 11 March 2013 Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $60 million in new funding, we’ve learned exclusively. The round was led by GGV Capital with Greylock Partners; Bezos Expeditions, the personal...
Mar 12, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia
VimpelCom, a leading Russian mobile operator, is considering a North American expansion amid negative market sentiments over the company’s already weighty debt level. VimpelCom CEO Jo Lunder told Bloomberg earlier this year that his company “has an interesting...
Mar 12, 2013 | News, Southeast Asia
HONG KONG, March 12 (Reuters) – Carlyle Group LP and KKR & Co LP are among the bidders to have made first round offers to buy a minority stake in Thai Life Insurance Co Ltd, in a deal said to be worth about $500 million, according to people close to the...
Mar 12, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
East-West Digital News 8 March 2013 Ru-Net, a Russian tech fund with headquarters in Moscow and New York, has shelled out $6 million to buy a 25% stake in, an online retailer of children’s goods, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported earlier this week, citing...
Mar 12, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Western Europe
The invest abroad trend among Russian financial institutions was demonstrated again last week by a capital injection of “several million euros” in Wine in Black, a German premium wine online retailer. The round was led by Russia’s Bright Capital...
