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O’Melveny has represented Highview Capital in its acquisition of specialised food service distributor Good Source Solutions.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The O’Melveny team was led by Corporate M&A partner David Smith, and included Corporate M&A partner Nicolai Schwarz-Gondek, Corporate Finance counsel Sarah Hoffner, and associates Matt Carter, Nidhi Geevarghese, Cliff Wen, Aaron Cha, Maha Syed, and Zach Greenberg.
Noerr has advised comdirect bank on the sale of its subsidiary European Bank for Financial Services (ebase) to FNZ, an international financial technology provider.
The FNZ Group provides established financial institutions with platform solutions for the entire investment business value chain (Platform as a Service). ebase is a B2B direct bank which offers a full range of services for financial products providers, insurance companies, banks, asset managers and other businesses.
Noerr provided comdirect with extensive advice in connection with the transaction and assisted it in both the M&A bidder process and the contractual negotiations. Volker Land, Co-Head of the
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has completed a GBP2 million investment in Lending Works, a UK peer-to-peer (P2P) lender.
The total transaction value also includes GBP800,000 of funding from NVM Private Equity, Pollen Street Capital, and a small number of business angels. The investment will be used to strengthen Lending Works’ sales and marketing function to support the continued expansion of the business, capitalising on the significant growth forecasted in the P2P market, and enabling it to originate and convert more loans through its established sales channels, such as brokers and price comparison sites.
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Moore Stephens has advised Webcredible Limited, a London-based experience design agency, on its sale to digital consultancy and software design agency Inviqa.
The acquisition helps Inviqa to expand its customer and user experience capabilities in response to client demand, while Inviqa adds an improved development capability for Webcredible’s clients.
Led by Partner Damian Ryan and Senior Manager Victoria Kiess, Moore Stephens’ Corporate Finance team acted as exclusive advisor to Webcredible throughout the sale process, including; the preparation of an information memorandum on Webcredible, identification and approach to potential acquirers, solicitation and negotiation of offers through to the successful completion
Investment bank Houlihan Lokey has appointed Zade Zalatimo as a Managing Director in the firm’s Corporate Finance business, effective September.
Zalatimo will be based in Dubai and will spearhead the expansion of the Private Funds Group and contribute to Houlihan Lokey’s broader advisory capabilities in the region.
Zalatimo will join Houlihan Lokey from The Carlyle Group, where he was the senior executive officer of Carlyle MENA responsible for leading the firm’s business activities in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. His responsibilities included developing and maintaining relationships with family offices, endowments, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds
Bambu, a provider of robo-advisory technology, today announced it has completed a USD3 million Series A funding led by Franklin Templeton Investments, with Singapore family office Octava and prominent Japanese Fintech investor Mamoru Taniya also joining the round.
The year 2018 has already become a marquee year for the two-year-old startup, signing clients in both North and South America as well as across Asia, and newly opened offices in London and Kuala Lumpur. Bambu also continues its commitment to its proprietary AI research and solutions, with further hires and completion of the team’s first research publication.
“We are incredibly
Howard E Cotton and Michael S Gordon, both seasoned trial attorneys with decades of experience in high-stakes commercial litigation, have joined BakerHostetler as partners based in New York.
Cotton (pictured), and Gordon come to BakerHostetler to continue their more than 20 years of working together as a successful litigation team.
They arrive from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, where Cotton previously held many leadership positions, including serving as a national co-chair of commercial litigation and on the national executive committee, compensation committee and board of directors.
Cotton is a prominent first-chair litigator who combines consummate litigation strategy and courtroom
A Guernsey fund investing in songs and musical intellectual property rights, set up by Merck Mercuriadis, the former manager of Beyoncé, Elton John, Morrissey, Iron Maiden and Guns N’ Roses was admitted to the London Stock Exchange on 11 July 2018 after raising GBP202.2 million.
Three Guernsey advisors collaborated in the IPO of Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited (Hipgnosis Songs) on the Specialist Fund Segment of the LSE. Fund administrator Estera International Fund Managers (Guernsey) Limited, law firm Ogier and PwC worked closely with investment adviser The Family (Music) Limited (TFM) on the launch of the first London-listed vehicle to offer
Parisian operational marketing firm group Marquetis has restructured its capital and strengthened its development through an investment from Omnes.
Headquartered in Boulogne Billancourt, and part of the French marketing and communications sector since 1996, Marquetis has been managed for more than 20 years by Virginie Massa and Evangelos Vatzias. Marquetis operates through its subsidiaries Marquetis One, Marquetis Connect and Marquetis Call. It offers a 360 degrees service, ranging from global communication consulting to automated cross-channel marketing in SaaS mode.
The group has a portfolio of customers made up of key accounts from different sectors (automotive, services, insurance, banking, etc).
HSBC has strengthened its financial sponsors coverage with the appointment of Alexander Glawe as Managing Director, Head of Northern Europe Financial Sponsors. Glawe will join in December 2018 with responsibility for advising private equity clients in Germany, Austria and the Nordics.
Glawe will also be responsible for the coverage of selected sponsors on a pan-European basis. He joins from Credit Suisse where he was most recently Managing Director, Head of Financial Sponsors Germany and Austria. He brings more than 15 years of investment banking experience, along with deep financial sponsor relationships and extensive expertise in advising and financing clients.
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