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Law firm Morrison & Foerster has appointed Anthony (Tony) Carbone as a partner in its New York office. Carbone will co-chair the firm’s Global Tax Department with Craig Fields and David Strong, and will also co-chair the Federal Tax Group with Strong.
Carbone further expands Morrison & Foerster’s tax capabilities both on the East Coast and across the firm, and brings market-leading expertise to its Business Restructuring & Insolvency, M&A, Private Equity, and Fund Formation practices. He comes to Morrison & Foerster from the New York office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
Carbone’s practice focuses on tax planning strategies and
Montagu Private Equity (Montagu) is to acquire Wireless Logic Group (Wireless Logic), a smart connectivity platform provider, from CVC Capital Partner’s Growth Fund. The Wireless Logic sale represents the first exit for CVC’s Growth Fund. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Wireless Logic was established in the UK in 2000 and provides businesses with specialist Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) platform services across mobile, satellite, low-power wireless, and fixed line networks. The company’s services enable smart connectivity for applications and devices, creating two-way communication across secure private networks. The platform gives organisations of all sizes the
Maitland, a global advisory and fund administration firm, has appointed Tim Oddy as Senior Relationship Manager for its UK and EU funds business.
The hire has been made following a sustained period of organic growth, together with a number of significant new client implementations over the last eighteen months. Oddy will be responsible for the relationship management of Maitland’s largest fund services clients, as well as helping to raise awareness of the Maitland brand across the market. Based in London, he will report to Patric Foley-Brickley, Head of Business Development & Client Management – Europe.
Oddy joins from Ballybunion
Magnitude Software, a specialist in delivering unified application data management to global organisations across industries, has acquired Every Angle Software Solutions, a specialist in SAP-powered business analytics.
Every Angle’s self-service solution works on any SAP system (ECC and HANA) and hides the complexity of SAP’s data structure, allowing end users to quickly identify and resolve key business issues.
This third acquisition in the past eight months, and seventh in total, immediately expands Magnitude’s leadership presence in the SAP ecosystem alongside providing a mature base of operations in Europe.
“Magnitude’s mission is to simplify the complex application landscape for
King & Spalding has added Ryan D McNaughton to the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group as counsel in the New York office.
McNaughton focuses on structured finance and specialty leveraged finance matters and will broaden the firm’s esoteric securitisation practice into several new asset classes.
“Ryan’s addition adds to the continued momentum of our CFI practice in New York,” says Todd Holleman, the group’s leader.
McNaughton advises underwriters, issuers, lenders, borrowers, private equity firms and other financial institutions in a variety of structured and asset-backed financings, including public and private secured and unsecured note offerings
An investment subsidiary of Investindustrial VI (Investindustrial) has acquired Louis Poulsen A/S, a high-end lighting brand with a product portfolio rooted in a strong Danish design heritage, from private equity firm Polaris.
The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and expected to close in Q3 2018. The financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Copenhagen and with production in Vejen, Denmark, Louis Poulsen offers a high-end lighting product range for both indoors and outdoors. Louis Poulsen is a leading Scandinavian brand in the high-end luxury lighting industry and one of the main global leading
Monarch Private Capital (MPC), an investor in tax credit projects, has appointed William Huger III as Managing Director of Monarch Private Capital Advisors.
In this new role, Huger will assist in the development of strategic investment initiatives for corporate investors who can benefit from tax equity programs that positively impact communities.
Huger has over 30 years of experience building and managing asset management firms that structure, manage and market alternative investment strategies suitable for institutions, family offices and private clients globally. He has an extensive background in establishing the business and investment practices needed to successfully offer marketable and
Law firm Dentons has appointed Nieves Briz as Barcelona Managing Partner and a new partner in the Corporate and M&A department.
She joins with a team of two lawyers from JAUSAS, senior associate Natalia Ontiveros and junior associate Wenbo Zhou.
With more than 30 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and commercial law, Ms. Briz joins from JAUSAS where she was a partner in the commercial law and compliance departments and was responsible for the China Desk for five years. Previously, she was a partner at EY Abogados, where in 2000, she became the first woman and the
Arlington Capital Partners has sold Zemax Software Holdings, a provider of optical and illumination design software, to EQT Mid Market US GP. The Company will continue to be led by current CEO Mark Nicholson.
Founded in 1990, Zemax enables its customers to more efficiently and accurately design optical components through its physics-based optimisation and design software. Zemax helps companies achieve a qualified design more efficiently by streamlining the workflow and communication between optical and mechanical engineers.
Zemax Virtual Prototyping tools include OpticStudio, the industry-leading optical design software, and LensMechanix, a unique application that allows mechanical engineers to package optical
Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Peak has extended its funding by a further GBP1.5 million to meet market demand and accelerate its R&D roadmap, taking the total raised by the company to GBP5 million (USD7 million).
Peak’s investment funding to date has enabled the company to expand its operations, taking headcount from 10 to 60 in the last two years, with plans in place to increase this to 100 staff in the next 12 months. Recognised in the top 25 fastest growing tech companies in the North, Peak has successfully grown subscription revenues by over 300 per cent year-on-year.
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