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Italian company has been put up for sale by PE owners
Elite firm poaches private equity and debt finance specialists as competition for top hires intensifies
...Additional reporting by Cheng Leng, James Politi and Jim Pickard Letter in response to this article: Symbiosis between China and Wall St is nothing new / From Kevin Christ, Emeritus Professor of Economics...
...Last year, the value of deals agreed by secondary funds reached $105bn, almost five times more than a decade ago, according to investment bank Raymond James....
...Alter Domus was advised by Goldman Sachs and Raymond James....
...Deal-by-deal transactions are favoured by institutional investors because they have the opportunity to cherry pick their preferred companies,” said Sunaina Sinha Haldea, head of private capital at Raymond James...
...Waterstones boss James Daunt has told the Financial Times that the public market “would be a very sensible place” for the bookseller, although those close to the situation say that a listing is unlikely...
Former prime minister, now the UK’s top diplomat, sought hundreds of millions of dollars from CIC for his UK-China fund
More partners set to move as firm signals its ambition with expanding London office
...“We aren’t exiting, we are bringing in a capital partner to help support the growth of the business,” James Seppala, Blackstone’s head of European real estate, told the Financial Times....
New York company hires lawyers from Chicago-based outfit in bid to build European private equity practice
BDT & MSD Partners’ investment values company at about €6.5bn and provides exit for private equity backer BC Partners
...is contemplating or has employed some form of incentive for investors to put capital in as quickly as possible and in as large a size as possible,” said Sunaina Sinha, head of private capital at Raymond James...
...and James Fontanella-Khan have revealed....
Recriminations fly as US lender’s efforts to sell assets fail to draw private sector bidders
...James Neville, a partner at property consultancy Allsop, said HSBC’s decision was “fantastic” news for central London developers....
...But some blow-ups in Europe are drawing attention from regulators, report the FT’s Ian Smith and Samuel Agini and DD’s Will Louch....
...Deals worth $105bn were struck last year, nearly five times the value of transactions in the space a decade before, according to a report published by Raymond James....
...The firm’s rapid growth has shaken up the historically conservative legal profession and upended Wall Street’s pecking order, DD’s Will Louch reports....
...Unless conditions deteriorate further, the firm is preparing to announce its intention to float in Amsterdam as soon as next week, DD’s Kaye Wiggins and Will Louch report....
...Goldman Sachs has hired HSBC senior banker James Keller for a private debt role, Bloomberg reports....
...James Bayliss, the head trader at Elliott Management in London, has left the firm, the latest departure of a long-serving member from the $59bn US hedge fund’s main European office....
...The latest intel from the coup on London’s legal market, as DD’s Will Louch and James Fontanella-Khan reported last week, is that it happened in the most American setting possible: a Bruce Springsteen concert...
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