Venture Capital Fund for Bicycle Industry under Development

Bike Europe 1 October 2012 LYON, France – Venture Capital is still relatively unknown in the bicycle industry. This is about to change with new Vélo Capital Partners. Venture Capital can offer an attractive way to fund innovative new concepts, products and...

AAR Reportedly Signs With Rosneft to Sell TNK-BP Stake

Moscow Times 17 October 2012 BP’s billionaire partners in a Russian joint venture tentatively agreed to sell their stake to state-controlled oil producer Rosneft for $28 billion, news reports said Wednesday. Alfa-Access-Renova, a consortium of four billionaires,...

Megafon Goldman Sachs walks away from Megafon’s imminent IPO

East-West Digital News Goldman Sachs announced on Tuesday that it has pulled out of a role as lead bank on an initial public offering by Megafon, one of Russia’s top mobile operators, scheduled for Nov. 1 simultaneously on the London and Moscow stock exchanges....

Baring Vostok launches new $1.5 billion fund

East-West Digital News 9 October 2012 Baring Vostok Capital Partners announced last week that it has put together a new $1.5 billion private equity fund – Baring Vostok Private Equity Fund V, or BVPEF V – which now stands as the largest in Russia’s private equity...