Advisory
Turning the tables – an M&A downturn means investment banks are now targets themselves
Some dealmakers with healthy balance sheets and willingness to go countercyclical are pursing acquisitions
Travers Smith bolsters funds practice with hire from Proskauer
Tosin Adeyeri joins with particular experience in secondary portfolio transactions
Unquote British Private Equity Awards 2023: one week left to enter
Submit your entry for the 2023 Unquote British Private Equity Awards before 7th August 2023 at 4pm
Palatine reaps 6x money on SBO of Anthesis to Carlyle
GP will be reinvesting in UK-headquartered sustainability firm, acquiring a minority stake
Dechert hires Travers Smith's Kay for funds practice
Sam Kay joins London-based team having spent more than 25 years at Travers Smith
Arma intensifies US acquisition talks with Mediobanca backing
Deal to acquire its first US peer could come as soon as next year
Alantra seeks to bolster US presence via buys, organic growth for advisory division - IB CEO
Financial services group aims to grow the geographical presence and sector specialism of its investment banking group
Investec acquires majority interest in corporate finance firm Capitalmind
Transaction will see the advisory firms fully integrating their M&A and corporate finance teams
Mediobanca acquires Arma Partners
Deal will increase Italian bank's investment banking fee pool by 30% as wider sector suffers from M&A slump
Paul Hastings hires private equity partner
Samantha McGonigle will join the Los Angeles-headquartered law firmтs London office
Squire Patton Boggs hires Dublin corporate partner from Philip Lee
George Kennedy will join the law firmтs new Dublin office ahead of its opening later this week
Houlihan Lokey poaches Nielen Schuman's Theys to open up Antwerp office
Hire to cement Houlihan Lokey’s position in Belgium, which represents 30% of the advisor’s Benelux deals
Squire Patton Boggs hires funds partner from MJ Hudson
Rob Ekeтs move follows Apex Groupтs acquisition of several business divisions of asset management service provider
Houlihan Lokey hires new capital markets MD from Numis
David Kelnar told Unquote that the firm is seeing a growing pipeline of companies looking to fundraise
MJ Hudson business divisions acquired by Apex Group
Sale follows suspension of listed UK-headquartered asset management service providerтs shares in December 2022
DC adds to secondaries practice with former Mercury Global hire
Sabina Sammartino joins the investment bank around six months after its GP-leds team was launched
Dechert bolsters Munich PE practice with WilmerHale hire
New partner Kai Terstiege joins law firm’s recent private equity hires including counsel Tobias Hugo
European sponsors sidestep panic, concede gloom over bank woes
Fallout from Credit Suisse collapse adds to slew of macroeconomic challenges for PE dealmaking and fundraising
Glass ceiling shows first cracks in PE space
Greater focus on investment team gender equality and mentoring has shifted the balance, but room for progress remains
Monument Group opens office in Amsterdam
Private capital adviser takes similar path to Rede Partners with Netherlands expansion
Unquote Private Equity Podcast: Après IPEM and the road ahead
Harriet Matthews and Min Ho share what they gleaned from the conference in Cannes and what this means for investment and fundraising outlooks
McDermott adds to German PE team with Noerr and Latham duo
Noerr’s Holger Ebersberger and Latham & Watkins’ Hanno Witt to join the firm’s Munich office
Travers Smith names new head of PE and financial sponsors group
Lucie Cawood's appointment follows poaching of Ian Shawyer by Cleary Gottlieb earlier this month
Unquote Private Equity Podcast: The PE auction in times of exit scarcity
Rachel Lewis joins Harriet Matthews to discuss how auction process dynamics are changing against the current market backdrop