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Clearsight Advisors has served as the exclusive strategic and financial advisor to LRA Worldwide (LRA) on its acquisition by Deloitte & Touche.
The transaction underscores Clearsight’s unrivaled position as the advisor of choice for leading companies in the consulting and outsourced services sectors as well as its depth of domain expertise across the complex customer experience ecosystem, where technology, services and data are rapidly converging.
LRA Worldwide is the leading global provider of Customer Experience Measurement services for multinational companies with complex customer interactions. For over 30 years, LRA’s innovative brand standards examinations, quality assurance inspections, mystery shopping programs, research,
Improved rail, roads and runways ranked first among the business issues that need to be prioritised by the new UK Government, according to a survey of senior business leaders carried out by BGF.
Twenty five per cent prioritised physical infrastructure, while 19 per cent highlighted the need to see simplified employment policies and an improvement in the quality of apprenticeships to make them more attractive to businesses and young people.
The inaugural BGF Growth Climate Index polled BGF’s Talent Network, a proprietary network of Board Directors with wide ranging experience across the spectrum of UK and international business, from non-executives
Growing Underground, London’s first subterranean farm, will start trading for the first time in mid-July.
Last year the farm successfully completed a crowd funding round that was oversubscribed.
The farm, in old World War II tunnels beneath the Northern Line at Clapham, is the brainchild of West Country entrepreneurs Richard Ballard and Steven Dring, in partnership with Michel Roux Jr, the Michelin-starred chef. The concept has attracted huge interest from consumers and retailers as well as scientists and urban planners worldwide.
The first phase of the farm, which includes a sophisticated lighting and irrigation system, is in the final stages
Garageio is to be one of the initial investments of Amazon’s Alexa Fund, which has been established to provide developers, manufacturers, and start-ups of all sizes who are passionate about creating new experiences designed around the human voice.
Garageio was founded in 2012 by Zak Dziczkowski and Dave Reif to bring a home-automation upgrade to existing garage doors. Garageio allows a customer to quickly find out if their garage door is open or if the alarm is set using a simple voice command. Users can then close their garage door from anywhere in their house.
Allegion is to acquire, through its subsidiary Allegion Luxembourg Holding & Financing, SimonsVoss Technologies, a German-based electronic lock company, from HgCapital for EUR210 million.
Global middle market investment bank Baird acted as the exclusive financial advisor to SimonsVoss Technologies and HgCapital on the transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals. Baird’s international deal team involved senior bankers in both the Europe and the US and included Michael Wolff, Sven Harmsen, Joel Cohen, Chris Cooper, and David Silver.
Frankfurt-based Managing Director Wolff, says: “this deal is highly complementary and will enable both sides to penetrate markets and geographies, creating global
In this issue, we present the Lyxor platform’s direct exposure to Greek assets, as well as the Lyxor hedge fund strategies exposures to European assets – most likely to be impacted by a spillover effect, either way.
Six Degrees Group (6DG”) is to acquire Capital Support Group (CSG), a cloud, software and security managed services provider with a significant presence in the financial services sector in London.
In 2014, CSG delivered GBP14m revenue, up 35 per cent on the previous year, and GBP2.5m of ebitda.
CSG is one of the largest providers of cloud and IT services to the alternative investment market sector in Europe and their clients have over USD500 billion of assets under management, powered by CSG’s hosting services. They have 130 employees who support 170 customers and their services span design, build, deploy
Lending Works, the first peer-to-peer lender to have insurance against borrower default risks including illness and loss of employment, has enjoyed a record first half to 2015.
Since its launch 18 months ago, Lending Works has lent over GBP10 million to thousands of borrowers around the UK. More than half of this was lent in the first six months of 2015 alone and the number of new lenders joining the platform since January was greater than the total lending community that joined in 2014. Such growth demonstrates a surge in interest and commitment from lenders to use the Lending Works
Jersey has attracted more than USD65 billion and distributed in excess of USD75 billion of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) annually, adding considerable value to the global economy as a result.
That’s according to the findings of a new report commissioned by Jersey Finance, which was produced by global management advisory firm Investment Consulting Associates and entitled ‘Jersey’s Contribution to FDI’. The report identifies the strengths of Jersey’s finance industry in facilitating FDI, its contribution to the global economy and the appeal of IFCs more widely in supporting cross-border investment.
Launched at a Jersey Finance ‘Africa Investment Seminar’ held in London
Kirkland & Ellis advised Palatine Private Equity on the recent closing of Palatine Private Equity Fund III. The fund was oversubscribed and held a first and final closing at its hard cap with aggregate capital commitments of GBP220 million.
The fund, which will make investments in the UK regional lower mid-market, accepted commitments from a broad mix of global institutional investors, including endowments, foundations, insurance companies, family offices and fund of funds. More information on the fundraise is available here.
Kirkland has one of the largest and most experienced sponsor-side private funds practices in the world with more than
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