Advisory
UK - MessageLabs launches fund advisory business
Online messaging company MessageLabs has launched a new fund and advisory business; Notion Capital.
CEE – Linklaters becomes Kinstellar
Linklaters has announced that its CEE spin-off will operate under the name Kinstellar from 1 November 2008.
"Today, the balance is shifting towards sellers after the long reign of vendors"
Joost Siemensma at Grant Thornton speaks to Domitille Lainey about the changes in due diligences in the acquisition race. Siemensma specialises in due diligence investigations for private equity investors. Previously he worked at KPMG and Deloitte Transaction...
Controlling leaks
new research suggests that leaks to the press can cost time and money and affect the certainty of deals. By Ashley Wassall
Q & A - The legal view
Nine months on from the first signs of a credit crunch, Nicola Bock talks to a crack group of private equity lawyers to assess where the market now stands and how things have changed
Q&A - Placement agents
The Southern European market has experienced the impact of limited liquidity when it comes to completing leveraged transactions, but the industry is seeing a range of opportunities surfacing, translating to new players disembarking and fundraising reaching...
UK - IPES establishes Jersey office
The International Private Equity Services Group (IPES) has established a presence with the opening of a new office in Jersey under the name of IPES (Jersey) Ltd. The IPES Group was founded ten years ago in Guernsey and provides specialist fund administration...
LUXEMBOURG - Oostvogels Pfister Roemers changes name to Oostvogels Pfister Feyten
Luxembourg-based business law firm Oostvogels Pfister Roemers has changed its name to Oostvogels Pfister Feyten . Frédéric Feyten , partner and the head of the Tax Department, will be represented in the firm's name. The name change follows the departure...
GERMANY/UK - Mazars expands into Europe
Financial due diligence provider Mazars has acquired German advisor Hemmelrath and is looking to increase the turnover in Germany to EUR 50m for 2007. Following the acquisition Mazars will now have a significant presence in the Czech Republic, Hungary,...