Boot Barn purchases costumes and work wear. The favorite retailer of western and workwear has finalized an agreement to purchase the stores of Baskins.

Paladin and Ascent contributes to PerspecSys. PerspecSys Inc, one of the foremost cloud data protection solution providers, has announced it has raised US$12 million in funding.

Caplinked raised US$3.7 Million for the series A capital round. CapLinked, the platform utilizing cloud based technology that allows business transactions to be done simply and securely, has announced that additional investors have been included in the latest results of its Series A financing round.

Spectrum invests in Extreme Reach for US$50 million. In an announcement today by Extreme Reach, it disclosed the significant venture the company is undertaking with Spectrum Equity.

Warburg Pincus to sell of shareholdings in Webster Financials. Webster Financial Corporation, the holdings firm for Webster Bank NA, had announced the pricing for the underwritten secondary offering by Warburg Pincus Private Equity X LP of a total volume of 8,744,850 shares.

AvantCredit gets loan infusion from Victory Capital. The asset executive firm, Victory Park Capital, disclosed that it granted AvantCredit a US$25 million credit facility.

Klockner Penteplast's recapitalization has been completed. The Strategic Value Partners, LLC made public today that the Klockner Pentaplast's holding company, which was purchased in June 2012 through recapitalization by assembly of investors headed by SVP Global, has concluded a refinancing transaction.

FNA Group finances boosted by refinancing from Bank of America. Livingstone, a renowned and independent global investment banking firm was pleased to announce the completion of negotiations on the refinancing by Bank of America of the FNA Group, Inc.

CTI Foods is now owned by the consortium of Thomas H. Lee Partners LLC and an affiliate of Goldman Sachs.

Partnership between Box and GoodData expanded with supporting capital funding. Partners Box and GoodData launched today the GoodBox Bash. The partners recent project is a cloud based application that allows their client to view, analyze and process business information.

Facebook in the process of acquiring Israel's Waze for US$1 billion. According to business newspaper, Calcalist, the largest social networking site, Facebook, was reported on Thursday to be in early discussion with Israeli's renowned mobile satellite navigation application, Waze.

ENI sells off shares in Snam. ENI, the Italian oil conglomerate, is in the process of divesting its shareholdings over its gas transportation company Snam last Thursday.

David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital and Jeffrey Gundlach of DoubleLine Capital have called out Chipotle.

In an effort to improve South Africa's power situation, Eskom SOC would be issuing debt instruments to fund the building of two of the world's largest coal fired plants.

Ouya console gaming gets a boost with US$15 million from venture capitalists. The maker of a US$99 video game console that utilizes Google Inc's Android operating system, Ouya Inc has raised US$15 million in venture capitalist funding in expanding its operations.

Oaktree is in discussion with the merger of its real estate unit with Prime Office, its competitor. Reuters reported that private equity investor, Oaktree Capital, is in discussion to merge the real estate unit of its German office with its competitor Prime Office.

Investec's Asset Management Team led by Hendrik du Toit is seeking to increase its shareholdings in the company.

Slovenske Eletarne AS is in discussion with lenders as to renegotiation of a deal finalized back in 2007.

Telecom Italia still is in the process of determining the pursuit of the fixed line spinoff plan. Franco Bernabe, Chairman of Telecom Italia announced Thursday that the spin off of the company's fixed line network would take time in its implementation.

Mediobanca on its own is performing well but is now burdened by the bad deals from insurer Generali.

The Algerian government is seeking a re evaluation of Djezzy the telecommunications firm before its purchase from Vimpelcom.

Barclays Grants EuNetwork debt funding for its growth potential. The EuNetworks Group, a bandwidth communications provider, disclosed that it availed of a term loan funding agreement with Barclays Private Credit Partners Fund LP.

The IPO of the Nomura Real Estate Holdings REIT expects at least US$175 billion earnings. Nomura Real Estate Holdings is planning to undertake an initial public offer of shares that is said to be the largest one to date.

Dubai Group would become independent of Dubai Holding upon completion of a US$10 million infrastructure deal.

Billabong has just been in breach of debt payments as exclusivity period for bid lapsed without a formal offer.

John Hancock and sister Bianca Rinehart sues to remove their mother as trustee of the Hope Margaret Hancock Trust.

Einhorn of Greenlight Capital gives advice and provides fearless forecast. David Einhorn is one of the most observed hedge fund managers in the industry.

Quintiles IPO sells US$947 million to pay off debts and other corporate activities. Pharmaceutical support firm Quintiles Transnational Holdings has raised US$947 million for its IPO.

Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling is set to be released from prison by 2018 because of an agreement with federal prosecutors.

IPO is the vehicle to be used by Sinarmas Land to sell off Kota Deltamas. One of the renowned land developers in Indonesia, with interests in subdivisions, shopping mals and golf courses has engaged the services of the Macquarie Group for an IPO.