A consortium led by the Australian bank has paid $1.6 billion for Pittsburgh utility Duquesne Light Holdings.
PandoraTV, a Korean internet video portal, has received $6.4 million in funding from a consortium of three venture capital groups.
The London-based buyout firm is closing the biggest fund of all time, although its time in the sun is likely to brief with KKR, Texas Pacific and Blackstone all scheduled to hold final closes soon that will re-write the record book.
BC Partners, a London-based private equity firm, and AXA Private Equity, the private equity arm of the French insurance group, have teamed up to acquire Médica, a French nursing home business.
Mark Richards, an 18-year veteran of Barclays, is the second hire in recent months for Actis following the appointment of former Microsoft India MD Rajiv Kaul.
After just four months, TDR Capital has raised €1.75bn for the successor to its €550m debut fund.
Abraaj Capital has hired former investment banker Mustafa Abdel Wadood as managing director after also promoting Shirish Saraf to managing director in April.
Three private equity firms are in the running to take TNT Logistics, a unit of the Dutch postal firm, private for about €1.3bn ($1.7bn) after a protracted sale.
Sequoia Capital India has injected an additional $10 million into a software testing company following its first investment of two years ago.
California-based early-stage investor Lightspeed Venture Partners has hired partner Yoni Cheifetez to focus on opportunities in the Israeli technology market.