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Multinational law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has added to its private equity practice in London with the appointment of leveraged finance specialist Ed Aldred as a partner.
Aldred joins from Linklaters where he spent over 20 years – the past five as co-head of the firm’s financial sponsor leveraged finance practice.
Aldred has expertise across the spectrum of debt products and in several key financial jurisdictions, including London, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore, with a particular emphasis on leverage finance and loan/bond structures.
An affiliate of alternative investment firm HIG Capital has sold Elekeiroz, a specialist in the oxo-alcohols, plasticizers, phthalic & maleic anhydrides and sulfuric acid markets in Brazil, to Latin American speciality chemicals company Oswaldo Cruz Química.
Investment research company Third Bridge has launched Community a new product offering providing hedge find, private equity firms, credit investors, mutual funds, and strategy consultants access to transcribed interviews between investors and industry experts.
Private equity investment manager Ares Management Corporation has partnered with Mubadala Investment Company, Abu Dhabi’s global sovereign investor, to form a joint venture that will invest around $1 billion in global credit secondaries opportunities.
French private equity investment firm Ardian has begun exploring a possible bid to take INWIT, an Italian-based telecoms tower operator, private at a market value of around €11 billion, according to a report by Reuters.
Unnamed Reuters sources say that Ardian, which is the INWIT’s second largest shareholder with a stake of around 30% behind European tower company Vantage Towers AG (33%), is working with advisers at JPMorgan Chase & Co on a potential offer.
Shares in INWIT jumped by as much as 4.8% to a record high of €11.87 in Milan on Thursday morning when news of a possible
Toshiba Corp’s board has accepted a $15 billion buyout offer from a consortium of investors led by Tokyo-based private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners, according to a report by the Nikkei Business Daily.
The EQT Growth fund has made a €100 million investment in IntegrityNext, a Munich-based sustainability software platform dedicated to enabling supply chain transparency and regulatory compliance.
Arlington Capital Partners has launched Eqlipse Technologies, a new platform company formed from firms focused on full-spectrum cyber and signals intelligence engineering, digital operations and identity management, and research and development.
Citigroup Inc has appointed Robin Rousseau and Barry Weir as co-heads of the company’s mergers and acquisitions business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to a report by Bloomberg, with the pair replacing Alison Harding-Jones who is leaving the business.
The report cites an internal memo as revealing that Rousseau, who joined from Deutsche Bank AG in 2020, will remain in Paris, and Weir, a JPMorgan Chase & Co veteran who moved to Citigroup last year, will remain based in London.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Rousseau, has been a vice chairman of Citigroup’s EMEA investment bank, and
Ethos Capital has appointed Jim Miller, who previously served in senior executive roles at Amazon, Cisco, Google, and Wayfair, as the firm’s newest Executive Partner.
Ethos says Miller’s role will be to help mid-stage companies scale their operations through “hyper-growth” phases.
Miller’s appointment takes the number of executive partners who work exclusively with Ethos to provide portfolio companies with sector-specific expertise to enhance operations and accelerate growth, to 17.
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