Latest News
Sidley Austin has appointed Kenneth J Baronsky as a partner in the firm’s Corporate group in Century City. Baronsky has vast experience advising companies, private equity sponsors, executives, owners and board members.
He joins from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, where he developed a transactional practice and served as managing partner of its Los Angeles office and as its corporate practice group leader for more than a decade.
Baronsky, regarded as one of the elite corporate lawyers in Greater Los Angeles and in the US, advises on mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, equity and debt investments, restructurings and other
Corporate dealmaker T Hale Boggs III has joined O’Melveny’s Century City office as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice.
Boggs arrives from a prominent legal and professional services firm, where he was chair of the media, technology, and advertising division and venture capital/emerging companies practice.
Boggs is well-known as a trusted legal and business advisor to entrepreneurs and investors in emerging companies, with a focus on digital media. He has longstanding relationships with numerous venture capital funds in both Southern and Northern California, representing funds and their portfolio companies in a wide range of corporate transactions as
Northern Trust has processed the first live capital call using distributed ledger technology for Emerald Cleantech Fund III, adding a significant new capability to its blockchain solution for private equity fund administration.
The fully automated capital call administration functionality was deployed for Emerald Cleantech Fund III, a venture capital fund focused on technology companies. Investment advisor Emerald Technology Ventures utilised Northern Trust’s private equity blockchain for the fund’s capital call administration, endorsing Emerald’s commitment to technology leadership in alternative asset administration operations. The capital call, executed by Northern Trust and Emerald Cleantech Fund III, involved parties in the investment advisor’s
Morgan Lewis has advised Digital Colony, an investment firm focused on mobile and internet infrastructure, on its acquisition of Opencell, which expands presence in the United Kingdom. The transaction was signed on 1 November.
Opencell provides multi-operator indoor mobile coverage for a variety of customers, building types, and sizes, particularly landlords and tenants using small cell infrastructure.
Morgan Lewis’s team was led by London partner Tom Cartwright and included associate Jack Shawdon, with support from partner Lee Harding and associates Nadia Akhter and Sarah Stock (employment) and associate Neil McKnight (tax).
KPS Capital Partners’ (KPS) portfolio company C&D Technologies (C&D) has agreed to acquire Trojan Battery Company (Trojan) from Charlesbank Capital Partners, LLC and other shareholders.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
C&D’s acquisition of Trojan combines two leading specialty battery manufacturers with long histories of delivering the highest-quality, most-innovative products in the industrial, renewable energy and specialty motive markets. The combined company will be a global technology leader in the battery industry, with over USD1.0 billion of revenue, and the ability to provide a wide portfolio of high quality energy storage solutions to meet the growing needs
Chicago-based private equity firm Frontenac has acquired Motion Solutions, a provider of highly engineered linear motion, motion control and automation solutions for critical, high technology applications.
Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA, Motion Solutions pushes the limits of motion technology in partnership with innovative OEMs by utilising extensive mechanical and electrical engineering expertise alongside manufacturing, distribution and assembly capabilities. The company specialises in technical engineered systems for sophisticated applications that require precise, reliable and customised movement. Motion Solutions’ products are sold as individual components or assembled into complex systems to
Affiliates of CVC Fund VII (CVC) are to acquire ConvergeOne Holdings, a global IT and managed services provider of collaboration and technology solutions, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately USD1.8 billion.
Subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, ConvergeOne expects the transaction to close in the fourth quarter of 2018 or the first quarter of 2019. ConvergeOne will maintain its corporate headquarters in Eagan, MN and continue to be led by its current executive team.
Pursuant to the terms of the merger agreement, affiliates of CVC will commence a tender offer for all of the outstanding
Private credit is now a globally established source of mainstream finance for borrowers around the world, with the industry on-track to grow to USD1 trillion of assets under management by 2020.
That’s according to new research published by the Alternative Credit Council (ACC) – the private credit affiliate of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) – and global law firm, Dechert.
The ‘Financing the Economy 2018’ report draws on an industry wide, international survey of nearly 70 private credit managers with a collective total of USD470 billion of private credit assets under management across a broad cross-section of jurisdictions
Lew’s Holdings Corporation (Lew’s), a supplier of fishing and hunting products, has acquired Southern Plastics Company, a manufacturer of soft plastic fishing lures.
Southern Plastics is a leading manufacturer of soft plastic lures utilising a unique variety of scents, additives, and colours supported by industry leading operational capabilities. Southern Plastics has manufactured soft plastics for Strike King for over twenty years. Based in Eufaula, Alabama, Southern Plastics benefits from an exceptional team of managers and employees.
Peter Leibman, Managing Director of Peak Rock Capital, says: “We are excited about the opportunity to partner with one of the industry’s best-known manufacturers
Partnerize, a provider of partner marketing software for global brands, has secured USD9 million (GBP6.91 million) in additional investment, at a USD127 million (GBP97.46 million) valuation.
The round was led by GP Bullhound, a leading global technology advisory and investment firm.
The proceeds will be used for additional sales and marketing expansion and support further growth and development of a global partner ecosystem centred on the company’s SaaS partner management platform, with a small portion to be used for secondary purposes.
Newcastle on Tyne-based Partnerize joins existing GP Bullhound portfolio companies, including Slack, Spotify, Unity, and Tradeshift,
Special Reports
Featured
Events
12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
