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Global law firm Ropes & Gray has advised long term client Bain Capital on the sale by Toshiba Corp. of its semiconductor business to a group led by Bain Capital, and includes Apple Inc, Seagate, Kingston, Hoya, Dell Technologies Inc. and SK Hynix.
The transaction, which was announced on 28 September, is valued at two trillion yen (approximately USD18 billion) understood to be the largest Japanese deal since 2011, as well as both the largest private equity and leveraged finance deal ever seen in Asia.
The Ropes & Gray team advising Bain Capital is being led by private equity
Macquarie Capital, the corporate advisory, capital markets and principal investment arm of Macquarie Group, has appointed Matthew Taylor as Head of Business Services, and Henry Elphick as a Senior Consultant to its European business.
Taylor will report to Jacques Callaghan, a Senior Managing Director within Macquarie Capital, and Hugh Briggs, Head of Macquarie Capital Europe’s Capital and Principal Solutions Group, which deploys capital to facilitate client transactions. Taylor joins Macquarie from DC Advisory, with more than 10 years’ experience executing complex cross-border transactions in a range of businesses and services. Recent transactions include the acquisition of K2 Partnering Solutions by
Boutique investment bank Invenio Corporate Finance has appointed Chartered Accountant and M&A specialist Matteo Turi as a Partner.
Turi has worked in a variety of industries, including renewable energy, utilities, retail banking, telecoms and water services, and has considerable UK and overseas experience.
Turi is an experienced Finance Director and holds several Non-Executive Director roles. He has previously held senior positions within Lanco Solar, Rengen Energy, K2 Partnering and Vanco, and was also part of the senior management at FTSE 100 company Severn Trent Water.
Turi says: “Invenio is growing rapidly in the investment banking sector. I am
Equiteq, a consulting sector M&A specialist, has advised Certeco, a business technology change consultancy, on its merger with P2 Consulting, a project and programme management consultancy.
The deal is backed by Lonsdale Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on the lower mid-market. The transaction closed on September 26, 2017.
Certeco is one the UK’s largest business technology change consultancies, providing specialist consultancy services to corporates in industries like banking, insurance, public sector, education and media. Certeco focuses on bringing certainty to business change programmes, helping clients with business restructuring, regulation and digital change.
Equiteq previously worked with
Asset management and private equity firms view the UK as the second riskiest market to do business in after China, according to new research from global law firm Ropes & Gray.
The research – based on a global survey of 300 senior-level executives working for multi-national businesses in North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin America, in the banking, asset management, private equity, life sciences, healthcare and technology sectors – reveals that 19 per cent of asset management firms and 14 per cent of private equity houses cite the UK as the market that poses the ‘most significant risk’ to
Technology, Media and Communications (TMC) global investment bank Drake Star Partners ranks tenth in TMT Global Midcap Cross Border by Activity, and second in TMT Europe Midcap Ranking by Activity in 2017 year to date.
These results reflect Drake Star Partners’ ongoing growth and expanding global reach, following a series of recent announcements including the firm’s record H1 2017 results and San Francisco office launch.
Drake Star’s Co-CEO Marc Deschamps says: “This represents a strong third-party endorsement in favor of our new type of banking structure. With an integrated global team supported by cloud workshare and intelligence tools, we
Frazier Healthcare Partners has appointed Mark Barrett as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) in the firm’s Life Sciences team.
Most recently, Barrett served as Global Head of Strategy & Business Development at Sanofi Genzyme and was a member of the company’s executive leadership team responsible for managing Sanofi Genzyme’s global rare diseases, immunology, multiple sclerosis, and oncology businesses. Prior to Genzyme, Barrett held leadership positions in Johnson & Johnson’s business development group and helped launch the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center in Boston.
“We have known Mark for many years and worked closely with him on the successful spin-out of Incline
KKR is to invest in Shenzhen Suishou Technology’s Series C funding round to support the Company’s expansion across China.
Shenzhen Suishou Technology is the provider of a personal finance management platform in China.
Suishou’s partnership with KKR expands the Company’s group of world-class investors, which include Sequoia Capital, Fosun Group and Source Code Capital.
Suishou enables individuals to better manage their personal finances by providing them with a one-stop mobile destination to track spending, organise budgets, and manage credit card usage. Suishou’s popular mobile applications include personal bookkeeping app Suishouji and fully automated credit card manager Cardniu. The
Lexington Partners, an independent manager of secondary acquisition funds, has held the final close of Lexington Middle Market Investors IV and associated vehicles (LMMI IV) at USD2.66 billion.
The fund, which commenced investing at the beginning of 2017, exceeded its initial USD2 billion target and accepted commitments up to its hard cap. LMMI IV is the fourth fund in Lexington’s specialised middle market series.
LMMI IV will acquire growth capital, small, and middle market buyout interests in the global secondary market. In addition to portfolio and single-interest acquisitions, LMMI IV will target general partner-led transactions such as spin-outs, restructurings,
Dealmaking appetite in Europe has seen a swift turnaround following the shock of last year’s Brexit vote, according to the fifth edition of the European M&A Outlook, published by CMS in association with Mergermarket.
The report canvassed the opinions of 230 Europe-based executives, from corporates and private equity firms, assessing dealmaking sentiment for the European M&A market in the year ahead.
Last year’s survey, conducted in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote, saw dealmakers express an unprecedentedly gloomy view of European M&A activity, with 66% expecting activity to decrease over the forthcoming year and just 24% anticipating an increase.
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