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Seyfarth Shaw has appointed Gregory A Markel as a partner in the firm’s litigation department based in New York.
Markel joins from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York.
Markel’s practice focuses on high-stakes litigation regarding securities and antitrust issues, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and directors' and officers' defence. In addition, he handles high level internal investigations involving complex financial issues and is often retained by corporate boards of directors to handle serious internal matters.
Markel is one of only 50 lawyers in the US to have been named to the Lawdragon 500 in each of the
Law firm Paul Hastings has advised FLSV Fund Administration Services (FAS) and its owners on its disposal to Sanne Group for a total consideration of USD65.8 million subject to customary adjustments.
The transaction is expected to complete by the end of November 2016.
FAS is a New York-headquartered business offering fund administration and reporting services to private equity institutions and alternative asset managers, primarily in North America.
Paul Hastings has advised FAS and its owners for a number of years.
Sanne Group is a provider of outsourced corporate and fund administration, reporting and fiduciary services.
The
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed David Marshall as a partner in London.
Marshall joins the firm from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain where he was a partner.
He has over 15 years’ experience of advising clients on UK and cross-border private equity and venture capital transactions with a focus on acquisitions, disposals, buyouts, investments and joint ventures. He advises a wide range of clients including private equity and venture capital houses, family offices and management teams across all major industry sectors and asset classes. He has been recognised for his work in private equity in the latest editions
Law firm Goodwin has elected 15 lawyers, including London-based private equity specialist Gemma Roberts, to the partnership with effect from 1 October.
Roberts, who becomes Goodwin’s 12th partner in London, advises on private equity transactions with a particular focus on the middle market and corporate mergers and acquisitions. She represents private equity and venture funds, management teams, corporates, financial institutions and entrepreneurs. Her practice spans leveraged buyouts, corporate restructurings, management incentive schemes, as well as general corporate matters and portfolio work. She is a member of the firm’s private equity group.
“We are delighted to welcome Gemma to the partnership,”
Bryan, Garnier & Co, a pan-European investment bank focusing on growth companies, has appointed Gary Lilley as managing director of its European sales desk in New York.
With over 30 years of institutional equity sales experience in both London and New York, Lilley will take on the commercial follow-up of the US accounts, as well as help Bryan Garnier Securities to leverage its footprint within the institutional community.
Before joining Bryan Garnier Securities, Lilley managed the European sales desks at both UBS and Morgan Stanley, which he left in 2011 to become the head of sales at Nomura Securities.
True Capital has acquired Blackbird Retail, the owner of one of the UK’s largest online furniture retailers, The Cotswold Company.
True Capital is partnering with the existing management team who will continue to lead the company through its next stage of growth.
True Capital will use its sector specialist expertise to help further accelerate online growth, expand product and category ranges and increase showroom presence across the UK.
Founded in 1996, The Cotswold Company was acquired by Blackbird Retail Holdings in a purchase led by Kevin Johnson and James Birtwhistle in 2009. The company sells high quality oak,
Scottish-based business angel syndicate Archangels and the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB), along with members of the company’s management team, have invested a further GBP630,000 in Scottish microchip testing company ATEEDA.
Archangels, based in Edinburgh, has been at the forefront of early stage investing in Scotland for more than two decades, alongside Scottish Enterprise’s investment arm, SIB.
In this latest round of funding, Archangels and ATEEDA’s management team have invested GBP360,000 of follow-on funding, with SIB investing GBP270,000.
Edinburgh-based ATEEDA helps microchip companies reduce their costs, as the complexity of their products increases, while enabling them to test to
Development Partners International (DPI), an African private equity firm with USD1.1 billion under management, has acquired through its ADP II fund a stake in Général Emballage, a packaging business in Algeria, which specialises in the manufacturing and processing of corrugated cardboard.
ADP II closed in March 2015 at USD725 million, significantly above its target. It is DPI’s second closed fund.
Under the agreement, a consortium comprising of ADP II and DEG- Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft has acquired a 49 per cent stake in Général Emballage from existing shareholders, AfricInvest and the original founders the Batouche family for a total
Independent private and institutional client service provider JTC Group has appointed Dirk Oppelaar as the new managing director of its Geneva office.
In his new role, Oppelaar will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the company’s Swiss operation, in addition to acting as a key figure in the ongoing development and implementation of organisational strategy.
Raised in the Netherlands, Oppelaar qualified as a lawyer from the Free University of Amsterdam. He began his career in finance in 1995, working as legal counsel for a Luxembourg trust company focused on corporate secretarial work for blue chip corporates and private
M&A, private equity and hedge fund lawyer Shaun Lascelles (pictured) has joined Vinson & Elkins as a partner, enhancing the firm's growing private equity practice group in London.
Lascelles comes to V&E from Ashurst.
Prior to August 2015, he was a partner and co-head of the global private equity group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in London.
Joining Lascelles in V&E's London office is Simon Rootsey, an M&A and private equity counsel from Skadden.
In addition, the firm has promoted London-based private equity attorney Dan Graham to counsel.
"These moves demonstrate our commitment to
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