Universal Music Group's bid to buy a big chunk of EMI stands to make the world's leading music company an even more formidable force.

Ratos's subsidiary Inwido has signed agreement to sell the business area Inwido Home Improvement AB to private equity fund Priveq Investment Fund IV.

Sonic Healthcare Ltd, Australia's top pathology and radiology group, has agreed to buy some pathology assets from private equity-owned Healthscope for A$100 million ($100 million).

Further European oil refineries face likely closure as their prospects of surviving the collapse of parent Petroplus are crushed by reprieves from death row of more profitable U.S. rivals.

Cuba's reform plans to attract more overseas investment are off to a slow start as the government focuses more on regulating existing foreign joint ventures than encouraging new ones, businessmen and diplomats say.

Private equity firms TPG Capital and Carlyle Group are separately considering bids for United Technologies Corp's industrial units at $3.5 billion to $4 billion.

Aviva could accelerate and expand asset sales as it seeks to mend relations with shareholders who last week forced out boss Andrew Moss, irked by its persistently weak share price.

Investment to expand clinical use of innovative cartilage regeneration implant GelrinC™ Regentis Biomaterials Ltd. , a privately held company focused on developing proprietary hydrogels for tissue regeneration, has raised $10 million in its latest round of funding from new investors Royal DSM through its venturing subsidiary and from Crossroad Fund, as well as from existing investors Medica Venture Partners, SCPVitalife and the Technion Investment Opportunities Fund.

The Michigan Venture Capital Association (MVCA) recently released its annual research report, which details investment activity across the state.

KPS Capital Partners, LP ("KPS") through a newly formed company, W Foundry International, Inc. and its affiliates, has entered into definitive agreements to acquire ThyssenKrupp Waupaca, Inc. from ThyssenKrupp Budd Company.

Sonitus Medical, Inc. has closed a $25 million Series D round of venture capital funding. Sonitus Medical, Inc. , a medical device company that manufactures the world's first non-surgical and removable hearing device to transmit sound via the teeth,  has closed a $25 million Series D round of venture capital funding.

Cedar Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: CDR) has priced an underwritten public offering of 400,000 shares of its 7.25% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock at $23.00 per share.

Silver Creek Oil & Gas, LLC ("Silver Creek" or the "Company") has received a $100 million investment from Crestview Partners ("Crestview")

Ridgeline Energy Services Inc. (TSX-V: RLE; OTCQX: RGDEF) announced its bought deal offering on May 14, 2012 of 2,857,000 common shares in the capital of Ridgeline at $0.70 per Common Share.

Conference for and by entrepreneurs now seeking dynamic presenting companies Venture Atlanta, Georgia’s premiere event connecting technology innovation and investment capital, today issued a call for presenters at its annual investor event to be held October 17-18, 2012 at the Georgia Aquarium.

On May 10, 2012, the Florida Venture Forum hosted its Second Annual Statewide Collegiate Business Plan Competition and Fifth Annual Early Stage Venture Capital Conference.

Phillips Edison – ARC Shopping Center REIT Inc. through its joint venture, PECO-ARC Institutional Joint Venture I, LP, has acquired two grocery-anchored shopping centers.

Financing from Ignition Partners, Gary Vaynerchuk, angel investors; predictive analytics platform scaling to more than 330 million Facebook Page Likes.

Australian underwear manufacturer Pacific Brands (PBG.AX) said takeover talks with suitors including KKR & Co (KKR.N) have ended without an offer being made, sending its shares down nearly 10 percent, as the dour retail outlook put off buyers.

Facebook's earliest venture-capital backers, especially at once-downtrodden outfit Accel Partners, will have reason to celebrate come Friday when the world's biggest social network is set to debut on the Nasdaq at as much as a $100 billion valuation.

bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 2000 GMT on Monday.

President Barack Obama is due to attend a fundraiser hosted by one of private equity's leading lights on Monday evening.

Carlyle Group LP, the private equity group that went public in a $671 million IPO earlier this month, on Tuesday reported a 26 percent drop in profitability in its first-quarter earnings, as it failed to match a strong 2011 first quarter.

bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 1030 GMT on Tuesday.

Picarro has been named a winner in TiE Silicon Valley’s prestigious 2012 TiE50 Awards for technology startups.

International business school leaders Steven C. Currall and Wendy Beecham will be available to meet with reporters by telephone or in person when they visit several of China’s major cities May 15-21.

AltoBeam has successfully closed a 6 million US dollars round of Series D funding, led by US Venture Partners (USVP).

FPC launches its new and further enhanced version of the FPC1011F, the by far most deployed silicon-based area sensor in China.

UC Funding has closed an $8.7 million bridge loan on the Garrison Apartments located in Marietta, GA. The loan was used to acquire and renovate the property.

Ally Financial Inc's mortgage unit on Monday filed for bankruptcy and the auto lender said it will sell some international operations to help it get on a path to repaying $12 billion in bailout money.