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Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn has appointed Alex Plakas as a partner in the firm’s Private Equity Practice Group.
Plakas, who joins from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, will be based in Honigman’s Chicago office, which was recently acquired as part of a strategic growth plan aimed at better serving clients and expanding the firm’s national reach. He is one of nine partners who have come on board at Honigman from Am Law 100 firms this year, and he will play an essential role in helping the firm to grow in the private equity space.
“Expanding our presence in Chicago
Blue Sage Capital, an Austin, Texas-based private investment firm, has added Hunter Todd to its team.
Todd joins Blue Sage Capital as an Associate. In his role with Blue Sage, Todd assists with evaluating, structuring, due diligence, and financial modeling of investment opportunities.
Prior to joining Blue Sage, Todd worked as an Analyst in the Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group at JP Morgan in New York City, where he was involved in numerous mergers & acquisitions, capital markets transactions and other financial advisory engagements.
Hunter graduated from The University of Texas with both a Bachelor of Business
DW3 Products Group has provided an additional GBP2m in funding to Window Widgets and Solidor to help scale up production capabilities.
The new funding has been split evenly across new plant and machinery and the development of new and original product lines.
Window Widgets was founded in 2004, and has become the first port of call for key components for the fenestration sector, while Solidor is best known for its original door designs.
In addition to this, DW3 has also invested heavily in new premises, with new 28,000 sq ft sites opened in Gloucester and Stoke. As a
CIT Healthcare Finance served as Joint Lead Arranger in a USD135 million senior secured credit facility to support Arlington Capital Partners’ (Arlington Capital) acquisition of Avalign Technologies (Avalign).
Arlington Capital is a Washington, DC-based private equity firm. Headquartered in Lake Forest, IL, Avalign is a premier, full-service, precision manufacturer of implants and instruments, specialty instrumentation, cutting tools, and cases and trays to orthopaedic medical device and specialty surgical markets. Financing was provided by CIT Bank, the principal bank subsidiary of CIT.
Matt Altman, a Partner at Arlington Capital, says: “Avalign is an established leader in the large and growing
Piper Jaffray Companies has hired Stuart C Harvey Jr (pictured) as a partner in the Piper Jaffray merchant banking group. The group manages private equity investments in commercial businesses with strong growth prospects.
Harvey previously served as a managing director at Piper Jaffray from 1993-2003, and will be rejoining the firm as the merchant banking group prepares to raise a new fund in 2016. The group closed its USD100 million Piper Jaffray Merchant Banking Fund I, LP in 2012.
From 2003-2010, Harvey served as CEO of Elavon Global Acquiring Solutions, Inc, a subsidiary of US Bancorp, growing revenues to more than
WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc (WuXi) has entered into a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger with New WuXi Life Science Limited (Parent) and WuXi Merger Limited (Merger Sub), a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.
Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Parent will acquire the Company for cash consideration equal to USD5.75 per ordinary share of the Company (each, a "Share") and USD46 per American Depositary Share of the Company, each representing eight Shares (each, an "ADS"), or approximately USD3.3 billion in aggregate cash consideration. This represents a 16.5 per cent premium over the closing price of USD39.50 per ADS as quoted by
Amr Helal has joined Duet – CI Capital, a joint-venture between alternative asset manager Duet Group and Egyptian investment bank CI Capital, from the Abraaj Group to lead the Duet – CI Capital Egypt Opportunities Fund.
The Egypt Opportunities Fund is a USD 300 million private equity fund dedicated to investing in Egyptian businesses, injecting growth and buyout capital into the economy and partnering with leading entrepreneurs to create long term sustainable value.
Henry Gabay, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Duet Group, says: “Amr brings a proven track record of investing and operating in Egypt and the region, as
Global law firm White & Case has expanded its Nordic private equity capabilities with the addition of Johan Steen (pictured) as a new partner in Stockholm.
“The Nordic private equity market has been consistently one of the most active in Europe and is home to some of the world’s most successful private equity firms,” says White & Case partner John Reiss, Global Head of the Firm’s Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. “The addition of Johan continues the development of our top tier Stockholm private equity practice and strengthens our wider private equity practice in the Nordic region.”
Steen, who
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