GERMANY/UK - Riverside-backed Sage makes fourth acquisition - Nov 19, 2008
Riverside Company-backed international communications company Sage Holdings has acquired Capital Precision, a UK-based provider of capital markets intelligence.

FINLAND - Sofinnova et al. inject EUR 40m into Blyk - Nov 19, 2008
Existing investors Sofinnova Partners, IFIC, Goldman Sachs and private individuals have invested EUR 40m into Finnish mobile network for young people, Blyk.

IRELAND - Irish goverment in talks with private equity - Nov 19, 2008
The Irish government has been reported as being in talks with private investors from outside the country regarding a possible investment into its banking sector, with US-based JC Flowers thought to be amongst the interested parties.