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Arsenal Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, has partnered with fixed income industry veterans Levent Kahraman and Dan Goldman to launch KGS-Alpha Capital Markets.
KGS-Alpha is a New York-based institutional fixed income broker-dealer, focusing on mortgage-backed, asset-backed, and agency debt securities.
Kahraman’s expertise includes 15 years at Salomon Brothers/Citigroup and Barclays, where he focused on trading agency mortgage-backed securities.
Goldman brings 25 years’ experience at Salomon Brothers/Citigroup, where he was head of North American fixed income sales and co-head of US rates.
KGS-Alpha is focused on delivering mortgage-backed, asset-backed and agency debt securities trading and product structuring services
Channel Islands law firm Carey Olsen has advised Masawara on its listing on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.
Masawara is a Jersey incorporated company focused on acquiring interests in companies and projects based in Zimbabwe and the southern African region.
The company seeks to obtain long-term capital growth through the acquisition of interests across a range of sectors, including agriculture, mining, telecommunications and real estate.
Carey Olsen assisted SJ Berwin as the lead legal advisers to the listing that took place on 19 August and is proposed to raise approximately USD25m. Masawara’s approximate market capitalisation on
Equity Risk Partners, an insurance brokerage and consulting firm focused exclusively on the private equity industry, has expanded its Chicago-based team with the addition of Brian Stratton as director – business development.
Stratton will be responsible for building and managing client relationships primarily within the firm’s employee benefits practice.
Stratton joins from Mercer, a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, where as a principal in the client development group he provided employee benefit consulting services to private equity firms and Fortune 500 companies. In his decade-long career at Mercer, he held a number of increasing management positions focused on new client
CloudCrowd, a labour-as-a-service provider, has raised USD5.1m in a series B funding round led by Menlo Park-based Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an early-stage venture capital fund.
The new funding will enable CloudCrowd to expand the services and features of its on-demand labour platform and drive its business development efforts.
CloudCrowd uses the internet to tap into its workforce of more than 35,000 registered workers to complete tasks, helping clients reduce overhead, increase efficiency and lower costs. Tasks are distributed through a proprietary online platform, providing work and income to CloudCrowd’s growing workforce.
"CloudCrowd’s platform allows businesses an unprecedented opportunity to have
Intel has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire McAfee through the purchase of all of the company’s common stock at USD48 per share in cash, for approximately USD7.68bn.
Both boards of directors have unanimously approved the deal, which is expected to close after McAfee shareholder approval, regulatory clearances and other customary conditions specified in the agreement.
McAfee, which has enjoyed double-digit year-over-year growth and nearly 80 per cent gross margins last year, will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intel, reporting into Intel’s software and services group. The group is managed by Renée James, Intel senior vice president and general
Navigant Capital Advisors, a subsidiary of Navigant Consulting, has advised Green Bancorp, the holding company for Green Bank, in closing an aggregate USD100m private placement of common stock with several independent investment firms.
The investors include funds affiliated with Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, Harvest Partners, and Pine Brook Road Partners.
No investor will own more than 24.9 percent of the common stock of the company.
The new capital will be used to expand current operations, as well as to pursue growth opportunities, including bank and branch acquisitions, structured transactions and FDIC-assisted transactions.
The transaction exemplifies the growing number of private
Maranon Capital has provided a senior debt investment to Veritext, a provider of deposition and litigation services to law firms, insurance companies and corporations.
Maranon has also added two associates, Jeannie Y. Chen and Michael D. Vieth, to its Chicago-based investment team.
In the Veritext transaction, Maranon committed USD20m as a participant in a USD120m senior debt facility which supported the acquisition of the business by Investcorp.
Chen joined Maranon from Lazard Middle Market, an advisory group of Lazard Frères, where she worked as an investment banking analyst.
Vieth previously worked as an investment banking analyst at Harris Williams.
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The merger and acquisition deal activity in the global engineering and construction sector shows continued momentum in quarter two 2010, according to reports from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The near-term outlook remains favourable for continued growth, as the first half of 2010 has seen 30 more deals than the first half of 2009.
In terms of value, deals totalled USD11.8bn in the second quarter of 2010.
The M&A activity in the aerospace and defence industry was relatively sluggish in Q2 2010, according to PwC. There were seven announced deals worth USD50m or more, compared to the eight deals reported in Q1 2010. Additionally,
Atlantic-Pacific Capital, a placement agent and advisory firm, has appointed Sarah McFadden Sandström as a partner in its private funds business.
As part of the project management and advisory team, Sandström will work closely with general partner clients on positioning and executing institutional capital raises for funds based in Europe.
"Atlantic-Pacific immediately impressed me as being the most highly motivated team in the industry. The firm’s successes over the last two years in a difficult fundraising environment are a testament to teamwork, determination and a focused approach," says Sandström.
“Sarah’s global expertise is the perfect addition to our established
Law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman has advised MakeMyTrip on its USD70m initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Market.
MakeMyTrip is the first ever Mauritius incorporated company to list on a major New York stock exchange.
Conyers Dill & Pearman advised MakeMyTrip on Mauritius law aspects of the listing alongside Latham & Watkins, which provided US law advice, and S&R Associates, which advised on Indian law.
Shearman & Sterling =acted as US counsel to the underwriters, Morgan Stanley International, Oppenheimer and Pacific Crest Securities, with Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff providing Indian law counsel.
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