Paul Hastings has advised Ocean Holding on the acquisition of the Düsseldorfer Hypothekenbank, a German mortgage bank, from the US investor Lone Star. Measured by total assets estimated at EUR12 billion, this is the largest German bank takeover since the start of the financial crisis. Ocean Holding, a fund
Brentwood Associates, a consumer-focused private equity investment firm, has acquired Marshall Retail Group, headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Marshall Retail Group is a specialty retailer for high-foot-traffic marketplaces with locations in major casino-hotels and airports across the US. The company is led by chief executive officer Michael C Wilkins, who
KKR has appointed Jaka Prasetya, former managing partner and founder of Leafgreen Capital Partners, as managing director to lead the firm’s Indonesia efforts as well as credit and special situations initiatives in Southeast Asia. Also joining KKR in the role of director are Rahul Bhargava and Allan So, both formerly
Early-stage venture capital firm Amplify Partners has appointed Mike Dauber as general partner. He joins from Battery Ventures, where he spent over six years driving investments in enterprise infrastructure and applications. In his new role, Dauber will continue to fund and support the next generation of enterprise technology entrepreneurs.
Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners’ (EdRIP) BioDiscovery 3 portfolio company, Sapiens Steering Brain Stimulation (Sapiens SBS), has been acquired by Medtronic for approximately USD200 million in cash. Sapiens SBS, located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, is developing a DBS system that features an advanced DBS lead with 40 individual stimulation points.
Jason D Osborn has joined Jenner & Block’s private equity and mergers and acquisitions practices as a corporate partner in the Chicago office. An experienced private equity lawyer, Osborn will focus on representing private equity funds and public and private company clients in complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged
Edmond De Rothschild Investment Partners’s (EdRIP) BioDiscovery 3 portfolio company, Covagen AG, has been acquired by Cilag GmbH International, an affiliate of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Company. Covagen is a privately-held, biopharmaceutical company specialising in the development of multi-specific protein therapeutics through the FynomAb technology platform. The company's lead product, COVA322,
Harris Williams & Co has advised Mister Car Wash, a portfolio company of private equity platform ONCAP, on its sale to private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners. Harris Williams acted as lead financial advisor to Mister Car Wash. The transaction, which closed on 21 August, was led by
Private equity firm Vector Capital has appointed Jim Murray as chief financial officer. Murray joins Vector after 14 years at Blum Capital, where he was the chief financial officer and chief administrative officer. Prior to that he worked at California Federal Bank, Coopers & Lybrand, and Kenneth Leventhal &
Venture capital veteran Sonja Hoel Perkins has joined the advisory board of GridGain Systems, a provider of an open-source, in-memory computing (IMC) platform. Perkins (pictured) brings over two decades of leadership and investment expertise in the high-tech industry, and currently serves as managing director of Menlo Ventures and founder of
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