Bluestem Brands is to be acquired by Capmark Financial Group for approximately USD565 million in cash, subject to various pre-and post-closing adjustments. Capmark expects to fund the purchase price and associated transactional expenses with cash on hand, an equal amount of cash invested in Capmark by affiliates of Centerbridge Partners
Zolfo Cooper has overseen the sale of 43 Strada restaurants to Strada Trading Limited, a subsidiary of SCP Sugar Limited, an entity within Sun Capital Partners, co-founded by industry expert Hugh Osmond. The sale forms a major part of the restructuring of the Tragus Group, which previously owned Strada.
International law firm Withers has hired Andrea Luciano as a partner and head of financial services and investment funds in its Milan office. Luciano joins the firm from King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin, where he headed the Italian financial markets group. Luciano has extensive experience in capital markets/debt
LBO France, via its Hexagone III fund, has acquired an 80 per cent stake in Payot, a French cosmetics and skincare laboratory, alongside a new management team led by Italian entrepreneur Andrea Surliuga. Payot was created in 1920 by dermatologist Nadia Payot. The company became part of Spain-based Puig in
F Mark Fucci and Anne-Marie Godfrey are to join law firm Akin Gump’s Hong Kong office. Fucci joins as a partner in the financial restructuring practice, while Godfrey is as a partner in the investment management practice. Both Fucci and Godfrey are joining Akin Gump from Bingham McCuthcheon bringing
Prompted by the success of a new wave of businesses including Airbnb, Rentmyitems and Zipcar, the UK Government is launching an independent review of the sharing economy. Technology-based business models that help people share their property, time and skills are revolutionising traditional sharing practices and building a new wave of
AIM-quoted Adamas Finance Asia has made two senior appointments at its Hong Kong-based investment manager Adamas Asset Management (HK). Viscount Trenchard and Andrew Main have been appointed as senior advisers with immediate effect. Both have extensive experience of Asian investment markets. The two appointments add to the Asian investment
In the last few years, operational due diligence on hedge fund managers has taken on the same level of forensic detail as the hit TV show CSI New York. Given that this has coincided with greater institutional allocations, it is entirely understandable; mom and pop’s pension is at risk. To
Cyber security has quickly become a headline risk for hedge fund managers. On 15 April 2014, the SEC issued its Cyber-Security Risk Alert, a detailed 26-point questionnaire that aims to address various elements of a hedge fund’s technical and operational infrastructure to determine how vulnerable it is to cyber attacks
New York-based Liquid Holdings Group has developed a real-time risk analytics solution for those who manage multiple accounts, traders or strategies, and as a result require an aggregate view of market and liquidity risks. The new solution, LiquidFIRM (Financial Intermediary Risk Management), is the latest addition to Liquid’s cloud solutions
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