JLT Specialty, the insurance broker and risk consultant, saw a 60 per cent increase in the number of insured deals during 2016 compared to 2015 globally. This type of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) insurance, also known as warranty and indemnity (W&I) insurance – of which the real estate and private
Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services and Safway Group, which agreed to combine on 20 March, have named Safway’s president and chief executive officer Bill Hayes as president and CEO of the combined entity. Brand chairman and CEO Paul Wood will become a senior adviser and chairman emeritus. “The opportunity
The European merger and acquisition (M&A) climate in 2016 was similar in value and volume to 2014, a good year, but not as frothy as 2015, according to the CMS European M&A Study 2017 from law firm CMS. The study, which analyses more than 3,200 of the firm’s non-listed European
Inbound merger and acquisition (M&A) investment into UK computer software companies has increased by 70 per cent over a two-year period, according to a report launched by Livingstone, an international mid-market M&A and debt advisory firm. The report, The Acquirers – A Global Review, includes analysis of data from deals
Monroe Credit Advisors (MCA) has placed USD13.25 million in senior credit facilities supporting LongWater Opportunities’ acquisition and subsequent merger of two domestic sock manufacturers, Standard Merchandising Company (SMC) and Fox River Mills (FRM). Based in Pennsauken, New Jersey, SMC designs, manufactures and distributes several lines of branded and private label
Mourant Ozannes has acted as Cayman Islands counsel for the buyer group in connection with the take-private of China Nepstar Chain Drugstore, a Cayman Islands exempted company formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The take-private was effected by way of a Cayman Islands statutory merger, pursuant to which
One of First Allied Securities’ affiliated independent financial advisory firms, Lifestyle Financial Advisors, has completed the merger of the Laura A Nagle independent advisory practice into its organisation. Nagle, a 35-year industry veteran, has joined Lifestyle with more than USD167 million in client assets, as of 31 October 2016.
KKR and Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO) are teaming up to create a new liquid alternatives investment firm by combining PAAMCO and KKR Prisma. Under the terms of the agreement, the entire businesses of both PAAMCO and KKR Prisma will be contributed to a newly formed company that will
The South African M&A market will grow by 66 per cent in the next two years, according to the Global Transactions Forecast issued by global law firm Baker McKenzie in association with Oxford Economics. The report shows that South African M&A slowed in 2016 amid economic and political uncertainty. While
The last six months of M&A activity across the US/UK M&A corridor reached USD126 billion, with US outbound deals to the UK rising 3.6 per cent and UK outbound deals to the US falling by 20.4 per cent. According to the Deloitte US/UK M&A Deal Monitor, the final quarter of
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