Rosneft Seeks to Raise $15Bln to Buy Into TNK-BP

Sep 20, 2012 | News

Moscow Times 19 September 2012 Rosneft is talking to banks about raising $15 billion in debt financing as it inches toward a deal to buy BP’s one-half stake in TNK-BP, bankers said Wednesday. Rosneft and the British oil company briefed President Vladimir Putin...

Lokata Lokata.ru secures new funding from E.Ventures and Bonial

Sep 18, 2012 | News

East West Digital News 17 September 2012 Last week, Lokata.ru, a startup driving Internet and mobile users to offline stores, completed a new round of financing from German-American venture fund E.Ventures (formerly known as E-Ventures Capital Partners) and Bonial...

New Player: WestBridge Advisors’ $500-million fund

Sep 17, 2012 | India, News

Business Standard 13 September 2012 This team of general partners has been together for the past 12 years, something rarely equalled in the Indian venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sector. It has raised about $2 billion across six funds and, in the past...

Peepul Capital may invest Rs 500-1,000 cr in Deccan Chronicle

Sep 17, 2012 | India, News

Business Standard 13 September 2012 Peepul Capital LLC, a Hyderabad-based private equity fund, is likely to invest Rs 500-Rs 1,000 crore in debt-ridden Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited (DCHL), which publishes English newspapers Deccan Chronicle, Financial Chronicle...

Russia’s Mechel may sell Siberian deposit stake-sources

Sep 17, 2012 | News

Reuters 14 September 2012 Russia’s New-York-listed steel and coal miner Mechel is looking to sell a 25 percent stake in its East Siberian Elga coal deposit to South-East Asian investors, two sources familiar with the discussions said on Friday. Mechel bought...