Candover, Schroder Ventures, Cinven and Nomura are still in the running for the 3,000-strong pub estate.
Buyout firm Candover has sold Shepperton Studios to Pinewood for £35m, bringing together two of Europe’s largest film studios.
The venture capital companies have taken a 20 per cent stake in Bankier.pl as part of a first round of financing and will increase their shareholding to 26.7 per cent in the second round later this year.
Burns eCommerce will use the investment to increase its sales operations and expand into the US.
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The Hong Kong billionaire is due to meet Scoot shareholders to make an offer for the company.
Finnish-based Eqvitec Partners has raised E132.5m at first closing and hopes to announce a final closing at E170m in June this year.
Softbank has acquired the 10.74 per cent stake in Poland-based Internet Data Systems.
Business media company Ecountries is reported to be close to closure unless it receives funding within the next few days.
Investors in the Israeli software maker include UBS Capital and the Intel 64 fund.