Making good on continuing efforts to consolidate the Polish healthcare market, Mid Europa has announced the completion of a 100% acquisition of Med-Sport. Med-Sport is now part of a Mid Europa healthc

Germany's eVenture Capital Partners has teamed up with Russia's Direct Group to invest in the fledgling Sapatu.ru, an online shoe retailer just getting under way. The investment, which is believed to

The value of U.S.-based LikedIn Corp. got a good boost in July after a USD 20 million investment by Tiger Global Management, LLC. The Tiger investment represents a 1% stake

Global private equity investor Riverside has tapped its Riverside Europe Fund IV in order to acquire Tropikal, a Turkish pet food company. The acquisition marks the firm's eleventh such deal this year

Russian internet investor Finam Capital has announced the acquisition of minority stake in one of Russia's leading value-added banking companies.

South Africa's Naspers Limited has announced an agreement to acquire a 28.7% stake in Digital Sky Technologies (DST) through a combination of two strategic investments.

Energy 21, a leader in the Czech solar energy market, has reached a deal with CEE private equity firm Mid Europa Partners that will provide much needed capital to aid their growth in Eastern Europe.

Poland's AmRest has found a new financing partner in American private equity firm Warburg Pincus, securing a deal to help fund the acceleration of company expansion plans.

Romania's Infopress will have a new owner after reaching a deal with Spanish private equity firm GED. The deal will see GED pay an estimated €12 million for a 92% stake in Infopress.

Daimler AG recently announced it has begun the process to strengthen its position and role KAMAZ, the Russian truck and bus manufacturer in which it already owns a 10% interest.

Anglo American has announced the sale of Polish concrete products manufacturer, Libet, to Innova Capital. The acquisition was made through Innova's 4 fund, Innova/4, and gives the firm 100% ownership.

Swiss telecom company Trivon Group has reached a deal with Effortel to acquire MediaSeti, a Russian wireless broadband operator.

Emerging market investor Actis recently announced the final close of its USD 750 million Actis Infrastructure 2 fund.

WomanJournal.ru and Passion.ru, two of Russia's many websites targeting woman, will merge through an agreement recently reached between the two site's individual owners.

German car maker Daimler appears to be working on a deal with Troika Dialog to buy an additional 15% of Kamaz, the financially troubled Russian truck manufacturer.

Evernote recently announced the close of its Series B financing round, to the tune of USD 10 million and led by Morgenthaler Ventures. The round was joined by Series A investors Troika and DOCOMO.

Polish auto parking operator COOL AR has been acquired by Royalton Partners in a move that significantly increases the private equity firm's holdings in the CEE parking zone industry.

Late last week investment firm Enterprise Investors raised the possibility that AVG, the Czech security software firm in which EI is the largest shareholder, could be listed on the Warsaw bourse.

Russia's leading internet portal, Mail.ru, has announced plans to acquire online gaming giant Astrum Online and merge the two companies.

X5, already Russia's largest retailer by volume, has acquired a 51% stake of eHouse web portals Bolero.ru and 003.ru

Citing a very heavy debt load in need of servicing, Ukrainian grocery chain Pakko has reached a preliminary agreement to sell a significant stake in the company to Abris Capital Partners of Poland

Listed private equity firm MVC Capital has sold portfolio company Vitality Foodservice, a beverage and beverage solutions company, to Nestlé Professional.

Adding ICQ to online IM platforms and VoIP services - owned by Naspers - will complement its global footprint and make Naspers one of the largest global communications companies with over 500m users.

Citing the growing Internet market in Romania, 3TS Capital Partners has announced an investment in Romanian online publisher InternetCorp. The deal, which gives 3TS a minority stake.

Belgian banking and insurance group KBC is to divest its private equity unit. This is part of the group’s overall restructuring plan, a condition for their receipt of state aid.

Rusal has been pursuing a deal with M.Prokhorov's Onexim to reduce a portion of its debt. Prokhorov would convert USD 1.8 billion worth of debt to company stock, increasing the Onexim share to 19.6%.

Digital Sky Technologies has agreed to exit itself from Russia's Kinopoisk.ru web portal. DST has agreed to sell its 40% share the popular movie information site to French internet concern, AlloCiné.

Intella Group has acquired a minority share of Russia's NLC from RosEvroGroup. Intella paid €22 million

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