Private equity firm Bain Capital has agreed to buy esure for 1.21 billion pounds ($1.55 billion), in a deal that gives investors in the British insurer a 37 percent premium on the share price at the end of last week.

Britain's esure is in advanced talks over a possible 1.17 billion pound ($1.49 billion) bid from Bain Capital Private Equity, the insurance company said on Monday, sending its shares more than 30 percent higher.

Investment firm KKR & Co plans to list a bulk of its operations in India on the local stock exchange, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing four people involved in the matter.

German real estate company Vonovia has agreed to pay 334.4 million euros ($381.6 million) to squeeze out remaining minority shareholders of Austria's Buwog , Buwog said in a statement on Sunday.

The hugely successful IPO by online marketplace Mercari in June was a bonanza for its shareholders – and may transform lukewarm attitudes among mainstream asset managers about investing in startups, according to major Japanese institutional investors and industry officials.

Australia's Suncorp Group is selling its life insurance division to Dai-ichi Life Holdings for $540 million, making the Japanese firm Australia's biggest in a sector that domestic companies are scrambling to quit.

Starwood Property Trust Inc said on Wednesday it would buy the debt business and loan portfolio of GE Capital's energy finance unit for $2.56 billion, as it diversifies from commercial real estate.

Japanese financial services group Orix Corp has struck a $2.2 billion deal to buy a 30 percent stake in aircraft lessor Avolon Holdings as cash-strapped Chinese conglomerate HNA Group Co Ltd trims holdings in its core assets.

China's HNA Group Co Ltd is in advanced talks to sell a 30 percent stake in aircraft lessor Avolon Holdings Ltd to Japan's Orix Corp , two sources said, as the company attempts to restructure and trim stakes even in its core assets.

Specialist European financial services private equity firm AnaCap Financial Partners on Monday acquired the first lien corporate debt and loan portfolio from Slovenia's second biggest bank Nova KBM (NKBM).