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Patton Boggs has established a public finance practice and enhanced its private fund investment and infrastructure transactions capabilities with the addition of four attorneys – three in its New York office and one in Washington DC.
Joining the firm in New York are Alphonso E. (Al) Tindall, Jr., Sani A. Williams and Deborah Hartmann Henry.
Joining the firm in Washington DC is Alethia N. Nancoo.
Nancoo and Tindall join as partners, while Williams and Henry join as of counsel. The group brings extensive experience in international, domestic and municipal public and project finance, private fund investment and infrastructure
Roth Capital Partners, a full service investment bank focused on serving emerging growth companies, has launched an online investment platform called OpenRound.com.
OpenRound.com aims to simplify the “road show” for growth stage companies and creating access to accredited investors. By leveraging the internet, accredited investors residing around the world can find, review, engage with and invest in growth stage companies. OpenRound makes this process more accessible and transparent by providing an online investment platform.
“This is a logical extension of our business of supporting small-cap public companies. Following passage of the JOBS Act, more innovative companies are utilising the
KAP Group is growing its advisory capabilities with the hire of Erin Roeder as vice president.
This expansion will enable KAP to broaden the firm's reach while maintaining its client-focused approach.
Since the firm's inception in 2009, KAP's experience includes advising over 25 real estate and private equity managers seeking institutional capital, creating a service that allows clients to focus on the operational aspects of their business while KAP handles the advisory and procedural aspects of their capital raise. KAP's clients have generated over USD3bn in capital commitments through commingled funds, joint ventures, and separate accounts.
"KAP's outstanding
Video engagement specialist Rockabox has completed a series A funding round led by Notion Capital and supported by existing investors Frog Capital and fourteen17.
Video is the fastest growing part of the USD100bn digital advertising market and is expected to reach a 14.5 per cent share by 20161. Rockabox plans to use the new funding to expand into new markets, further develop its software-as-a-service platform and further consolidate its position as a leading provider of video engagement technology for brands, agencies, publishers and broadcasters.
Rockabox has grown rapidly since the company’s launch in 2008 with clients including leading
Water Street Healthcare Partners has sold its outsourced pharmaceutical services company AAIPharma Services to Cambridge Major Laboratories.
AAIPharma and CML have merged to form a provider of integrated chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) services. The transaction marks Water Street’s fourth strategic transaction in the past three weeks.
Water Street acquired AAIPharma in 2009 when it was a division of a global corporation and transitioned it to a standalone company. Together with management, Water Street created and executed a strategic expansion programme that transformed AAIPharma into a leading independent provider of pharmaceutical development services. Over the past two years, AAIPharma
Options is expanding its partnership with Redline Trading Solutions, a provider of low-latency market data and order execution solutions, to offer a fully managed ticker plant for options and equities.
The Options-Redline collaboration enables trading firms to access a complete and fully resilient set of exchange-traded equities, options, futures and FX market data, in addition to a full suite of broker connections, and to submit and track orders to the exchanges.
Additionally, the service is being delivered via market leading low latency infrastructure and alongside a fully redundant hosted environment with storage in NY4 and Weehawken.
The delivery
UK-based private equity firm Lonsdale Capital Partners has acquired a majority interest in Oteac Limited, the firm’s third deal in the last 12 months.
Oteac is a provider of integrated fire and safety services, both offshore in the oil and gas sector and onshore in the UK.
The tougher regulatory environment has led to much stricter requirements on the company’s clients for Oteac’s engineering services.
Oteac was acquired by Sandy Brown in 2007 and Bill Hogarty joined in 2009. Both will continue as directors and shareholders in Oteac. Hogarty will continue as CEO of the company and he,
Fidelity Institutional has launched a new solution for accessing alternative investments.
Fidelity’s platform will provide research, education and third-party due diligence, as well as access to a wide range of alternative investment products for all Fidelity Institutional clients.
Financial advisors and family office professionals will now have access to a variety of alternative investment products, including hedge funds, private equity funds and ’40 Act mutual funds.
Fidelity’s platform will also provide access to research and third-party due diligence reports through strategic alliances with leaders in the space – including CAIS, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) and Morningstar.
Almost half of M&A executives in Europe expect a rise in transactions over the coming year, with the German-speaking countries remaining the driver of the market.
That is the conclusion of the M&A Outlook study, for which international commercial law firm CMS surveyed 225 representatives of companies, private equity houses and law firms in conjunction with analysis provider Mergermarket.
"The economy is slowly recovering from the financial crisis. This new growth also appears to be giving the M&A market a long-anticipated boost," says Thomas Meyding, CMS partner in Stuttgart and head of the CMS corporate group.
Although European
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is to acquire John Deere Landscapes (JDL), a unit of Deere & Company's agriculture and turf segment.
Deere will initially retain a 40 per cent ownership stake in the new standalone company. The carve-out transaction is valued at approximately USD465m.
With over USD1bn in annual revenue, JDL is the largest North American distributor of landscaping products sold primarily to professional landscape contractors for use in residential and commercial settings. JDL distributes wholesale irrigation, landscape lighting, nursery, and turf and maintenance supplies. Some turf and maintenance products are sold under the JDL-owned LESCO brand.
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