Fenwick & West LLP today announced the results of its Second Quarter 2012 Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey.

Novira Therapeutics Inc. has secured $23 million in Series A financing. Novira Therapeutics Inc. has secured $23 million in Series A financing to support the development of its capsid-targeting antivirals for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (HBV) and HIV infections.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attempted to turn the national conversation back to his record as a business executive in an op-ed published on Friday in the Wall Street Journal.

European private equity firm Permira's PERM.UL is buying Japan's largest sushi restaurant chain for $1 billion including debt.

Private equity firms American Securities LLC and Apollo Global Management LLC (APO.N), and Linamar Corp (LNR.TO), have submitted bids for U.S. auto parts supplier Metaldyne.

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Mocana has completed a $25 million round of Series D funding to scale the company’s Mobile and Device Security Platform.

AOptix has closed a $42 million Series E round of funding. AOptix (www. aoptix. com), a technology innovation company applying optics to transform identity verification and wireless communications, today announced that it has closed a $42 million Series E round of funding.

Advantage Capital Partners has invested $7.2 million in 3DR Laboratories. Advantage Capital Partners, a leading venture capital and small business finance firm, has invested $7.

Convergent.io (www.convergent.io), an enterprise infrastructure startup, has closed a $10 million series A round of funding with Andreessen Horowitz.

Michaels Stores Inc (MIK.N), North America's largest arts and crafts retailer, reported same-store sales rose 2.9 percent in the second quarter.

Bids submitted earlier this month by private equity firms for Ancestry.com have fallen short of the company's expectations.

Alp Ercil closed his own Asia-Pacific fund to fresh money this week after raising $940 million in the biggest hedge fund launch in the region for 2012.

Shares of China's best-known local sportswear group, Li Ning Co Ltd, slid 4 .5 pe rcent on Thursday.

Global buyout fund KKR & Co LP (KKR.N) is in early stage discussions to launch a debt fund to invest in India that could raise $750 million to $1 billion.

A unit of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund has bought a 22 percent stake in CITIC Capital Holdings.

The private equity arm of Standard Chartered has invested $45 million for a minority stake in Indian engineering services firm Inox India Ltd.

EIG Global Energy Partners LLC said on Tuesday it had sued asset manager TCW Group Inc over the latter's takeover by private equity firm Carlyle Group LP.

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Discovery Bay Games today announced closing $15 million in Series B financing. Discovery Bay Games, the worldwide leader in iOS-exclusive game accessories, today announced closing $15 million in Series B financing, led by Trilogy Equity Partners, LLC, a privately held investing company, and Logitech, a world leader in gaming products for the PC and other platforms.

Lehigh Technologies Inc. has completed $16 million in financing, securing investments from top global venture capital firms.

GGV Capital has raised $625 million for its fourth venture capital fund. GGV Capital, a top venture capital firm focused on the US and China, has raised $625 million for its fourth venture capital fund.

Intellectual Ventures (IV) announced today that its newest spin-out company, Kymeta™, has closed a $12 million funding round.

China sovereign fund CIC CIC.UL and Government of Singapore Investment Corp GIC.UL have invested around $500 million each in U.S.-based Cheniere Energy Partners Ltd's (CQP.A) planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant.

Funds run by Blackstone Group LP have sold about 20 percent of its shares of mall owner General Growth Properties Inc at $18.45 a share.

Brazilian online fashion retailer Dafiti said on Tuesday that it would receive $45 million from J.P. Morgan Asset Management in a cash-for-equity deal.

Global buyout fund KKR & Co L.P said on Wednesday that it will acquire a stake in privately held retailer Novo Holdco Ltd for $30 million.

Talks between struggling retailer Best Buy Co Inc and its founder Richard Schulze over taking the company private have broken down.

European banks are finding ready buyers in Asia for everything from loans to entire insurance and broking operations.

Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund said Pipeline Partners Australia has declined to match a sweetened A$1.4 billion ($1.47 billion) offer by the Monday deadline set by HDF.