Webster Financial Corporation has announced the pricing of the underwritten secondary offering by Warburg Pincus Private Equity X, L.P. and one of its affiliates of 8,744,850 shares of Webster common stock. All of the shares are being sold by Warburg Pincus and the firm will receive all of the net proceeds from the offering.

Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund V, L.P., an energy-focused private equity fund managed by Riverstone Holdings, will make a strategic investment alongside Ridgewood Energy Corporation, a private upstream oil and gas investment company, in a series of deepwater exploration projects located in the Gulf of Mexico. The Ridgewood management team will manage the investments on behalf of the venture. Combined with a similar commitment by an affiliate of Riverstone/Carlyle Global Energy and Power Fund IV, L.P. in 2010, this brings the total Riverstone sponsored fund commitment to the venture to over $550 million.

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CS Strategic Partners, the secondary private equity arm of Credit Suisse, has closed its newest fund – CS Strategic Partners V, L.P. – with $2.9 billion. The fund includes more than $87 million committed by Credit Suisse and the strategic partner investment team, the firm said Wednesday. -cn PRESS RELEASE CS Strategic Partners, the exclusive [...]