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...Commended Veritas Legal O: 7; L: 8; I: 7; Total: 22The firm advised US investment group JC Flowers on the purchase of bad loans from India’s Yes Bank....
...He founded the group with David Schamis, who previously worked at private equity firm JC Flowers, after Diamond was ousted from Barclays in 2012 over the Libor rate-rigging scandal....
...Warburg Pincus injected £250mn into the group in 2020 to help get the merger with Smith & Williamson over the line....
...New York-based private equity investor JC Flowers agreed on Thursday to pay $300m for a 30 per cent stake in LMAX Group, acquiring a minority stake from the firm’s management who remain majority owners....
...New York-based private equity group JC Flowers also considered the bank, but it is unclear whether the firm remains interested....
...Opec’s members proposed cutting production by an additional 1.5m barrels a day on Thursday, taking the total daily cut by the Opec+ group to 3.6m bpd, or 4 per cent of world demand....
...That makes this deal different from the rescues over the past two years of Germany’s HSH Nordbank by US private equity groups led by Cerberus and JC Flowers, and of Portugal’s Novo Banco by Lone Star of...
...Mr Diamond teamed up with former JC Flowers executive David Schamis to set up Atlas Merchant in 2013 after he had left Barclays....
...JC Flowers is looking to sell its remaining 20 per cent-plus stake in Shinsei Bank, the Japanese lender that the US group resurrected and turned around in one of global private equity’s most lucrative deals...
...As part of the deal, backers including Encore Capital Group, a US debt management company, and funds managed by private equity shop JC Flowers & Co, will be able to cash-in on a portion of their investment...
...That followed tie-ups between the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board and Kotak Mahindra, and between US private equity firm JC Flowers and the Indian financial group Ambit Holdings....
...It also faces a renewed rivalry from JC Penney, which has been making a comeback ....
...The bank, which is backed by private equity group JC Flowers, said profit before tax increased to £46.6m in the first half, due to strong loan growth....
...JC Flowers is the latest private equity group to sell a stake in one of the UK’s fast-growing specialist banks....
...Cabot was acquired by JC Flowers in May last year from rival buyout group AnaCap in a £500m transaction....
...These include Caixabank and Santander, two of Spain’s largest lenders, Banesco, the Venezuelan bank, US investor Guggenheim Partners and JC Flowers, the US private equity group....
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...Banesco’s bid trumped offers from the three largest Spanish banks as well as bids from JC Flowers, the US private equity house, and US investors Guggenheim Partners....
...US: Dell, Home Depot, JC Penney. “The Justice Department is investigating whether J.P....
...JC Flowers is expected to pay about £300m for the loans – about two-thirds of their value....
...Mr Flowers’s last UK deal was the £50m his JC Flowers operation invested in building society Kent Reliance three years ago....
...Private equity groups are not the only ones interested in acquiring such loans in the UK....
...At the same time mid-market department stores such as JC Penney and Sears have struggled in a crowded market....
...A number of interested groups are expected to submit offers including joint private equity bidders JC Flowers and Apollo, and Virgin Money, which is backed by buyout group WL Ross, according to people close...
...That has left the field dominated by private equity money, led by joint bidders JC Flowers and Apollo, and Virgin Money, which is backed by buyout group WL Ross....
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