Thirteen practice awards will be handed out on the night, including M&A Team of the Year (Large and Midmarket), Private
Equity Team of the Year, Finance Team of the Year and Arbitration Team of the Year.
Private
Equity Team of the Year Baker & McKenzie Charles Russell Speechlys Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Hogan Lovells Kirkland & Ellis Shoosmiths Taylor Wessing Travers Smith
Private
Equity Team of the Year for the advice given to Cinven and BC Partners on the takeover bid for Amadeus
Baker McKenzie took the award for Private
Equity Team of the Year after impressing judges with its work for Bain Capital on the $ 3.1 bn (# 2.4 bn) sale of its portfolio company, Brakes Group — a distributor of frozen, grocery and chilled foods to the catering industry — to Sysco Corporation, North America's leading food service distributor.
Transatlantic Law Firm of the Year: Clyde & Co Transatlantic Independent Law Firm of the Year: A&L Goodbody Transatlantic Law Firm Manager of the Year: John Quinn, managing partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Transatlantic Legal Department of the Year: Archer Daniels Midland Transatlantic General Counsel of the Year: Dr Manfred Döss, Volkswagen AG Transatlantic Dealmaker of the Year: Ansgar Rempp, Jones Day Transatlantic Disputes / Regulatory Lawyer of the Year: Robert Giuffra, Sullivan & Cromwell Transatlantic M&A Team of the Year (Large Deals): Baker Botts Transatlantic M&A Team of the Year (Midmarket): Morrison & Foerster Transatlantic Private
Equity Team of the Year: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Transatlantic Debt Capital Markets Team of the Year: Kirkland & Ellis Transatlantic Equity Capital Markets Team of the Year: Noerr Transatlantic Finance Team of the Year: Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom Transatlantic Arbitration Team of the Year: Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom Transatlantic Litigation Team of the Year: Herbert Smith Freehills, Debevoise & Plimpton, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Lax O'Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb and Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg Transatlantic IP Team of the Year: Herbert Smith Freehills Transatlantic Investigations Team of the Year: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Transatlantic Restructuring Team of the Year: Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom Transatlantic Tax Team of the Year: Davis Polk & Wardwell Transatlantic Antitrust Team of the Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
In all, there are 11 practice awards, including M&A Team of the Year (Large and Midmarket), Private
Equity Team of the Year and Finance Team of the Year.
Reed Smith picked up the private
equity team of the year title for its work in helping ensure Graphite Capital's sale of Micheldever Tyre Services to Sumitomo Rubber Industries crossed the line after Graphite's previous legal advisers — King & Wood Mallesons (KWM)-- went into administration mid-deal.
Not exact matches
In 2012 he was part
of the Sentry
team that won a Morningstar Award for best Canadian dividend and
equity fund.
Women - led
teams received just $ 1.9 billion
of the total $ 85 billion invested by venture capitalists in 2017, which is just 2.2 percent
of the year's total, according to data from VC database PitchBook, an M&A, private
equity, and VC database, reported by Fortune.
In 1988, Steve joined Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (formerly Kleinwort Benson Securities) and worked as an
equity option marketmaker before moving on to Credit Lyonnais where he became Head
of the London option market - making
team on Liffe.
The 40 - city tour saw the bank
team up with HGTV and DIY Network to offer home reno advice while promoting its home
equity loans and lines
of credit.
A bank famous for investments in commodities, Goldman Sachs's
equity research
team initiated coverage on a slew
of major names, complete with company - by - company synopses and price targets.
He states that the collective strength areas
of Finzy's in - house
team coupled with the startup's approach to business got the investors interested in pumping
equity.
«You've been able to find pockets
of strength even this year,» says Bruce Cooper, who heads all
equity teams at TD Asset Management and manages a global dividend fund.
Both
of these approaches to sharing
equity with your
team have pluses and minuses.
Private
equity firms have recognized for a while now that they can't just expect management
teams to conduct business as usual at the current price environments to deliver the types
of returns that people expect.
CONFIDENCE: Term Sheet has
teamed up with Semaphore on its 10th annual confidence survey
of private
equity and venture capital professionals.
The perception
of opportunity in the absence
of resources helps explain much
of what differentiates entrepreneurial leadership from that
of corporate administrators: the emphasis on
team rather than hierarchy, fast decisions rather than deliberation, and
equity rather than cash compensation.
Under the current model
of equity crowdfunding, companies need to screen for ventures that will meet investors» expectations — such as a strong
team and marketplace traction — and usually only a very small percentage
of submissions are approved to post.
A
team of the investment bank's global
equity analysts still expect a 20 % gain in stock worldwide by the end
of 2016.
The
team of over 250 global employees works with consultancies, private
equity firms and investment banks across the globe to help its clients — typically business professionals and leaders — scale.
«One
of the most important things to get right is starting pay,» Sara Bowen, an attorney who leads Starbucks Inclusion, Diversity,
Equity and Accessibility
team, said in a statement.
Efti goes on to offer founders a list
of suggestions to ensure that the people they hire can deal with the ambiguity and messiness
of start - up life, including stressing this fact in interviews, encouraging employees to take ownership
of their ideas, breaking down barriers between
teams, and giving new hires some skin in the game in the form
of equity.
«Steel is the primary material used by Automobile manufacturers Ford (F) and General Motors (GM),» David Kostin, chief U.S.
equity strategist at Goldman Sachs, and a
team of analysts said in a Friday report.
«Steel is the primary material used by automobile manufacturers Ford (F) and General Motors (GM),» David Kostin, chief U.S.
equity strategist at Goldman Sachs, and a
team of analysts said in a Friday report.
Notably, she — along with the rest
of the company's all - black female executive
team — will have an
equity stake in the business.
The organic food retailer tells Fortune that, since its 1992 inception, about 94 %
of its
equity awards have been granted to
team members rather than C - Suite employees.
Mills, who served on Obama's SBA transition
team, has been described as a venture capitalist, but she's really from the world
of private
equity.
Lakos - Bujas said he and his
team view «normalizing inflation and declining global deflationary risks as a positive for
equities at this stage
of the cycle, and believe there has been some overreaction to inflation headlines lately.»
He has leveraged his formidable personality and network into a diverse web
of businesses, building and investing in companies as far - flung as asteroid mining, credit cards, hospitality, nutritional supplements, private
equity, sports
teams, 3 - D printed prosthetics, and, most recently, wealth management.
Weiss pulled his
team out two weeks later, negotiated the return
of his
equity, and slunk back to the city.
Although they're «one
of the more expensive areas» in biopharmaceuticals, since «you are literally saving people's lives, the payers have a harder time pushing back and lowering the price,» said Michael Rich, who provides health - care coverage for Eagle Asset Management's
Equity Income
team.
The technical analysis
team at Bank
of America Merrill Lynch has looked at monthly performance for the benchmark S&P 500 dating all the way back to 1928 and concluded that March and April provide a sweet spot
of sorts for
equity investors.
He notes ruefully, «I had planned to upgrade my
team of advisers, especially my accountant, after I raised the private -
equity money.
Last spring, Claridge Inc., the private
equity firm founded by Charles Bronfman in 1987 and executive chaired by his son Stephen,
teamed up with Ivanhoe Cambridge, the property arm
of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, to commit approximately $ 100 million to a slate
of mid-size development projects in and around their hometown
of Montreal.
Walker became one
of the youngest members to serve on the Stanford Board
of Trustees; found a career in his chosen field
of real estate, where he has a successful real estate investment fund; holds
equity in Hollywood nightclubs; and has a small ownership stake in the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball
team.
The portfolio management
team uses a variety
of investment strategies to search for companies suitable for investment in the fund, including factors such as growth in earnings, return on
equity, and revenue.
And venture is not alone; only 5 percent
of the S&P 500 index has a female CEO; 3 percent
of U.S. senior leadership
teams are racially diverse; 8 percent
of law firm
equity partners are individuals
of color; and 18 percent
of the largest nonprofits ($ 50 million + budgets) are run by women, despite an overwhelmingly (75 percent) female employee base.
When building the BlackRock Managed Index Portfolios, the investment
team moves beyond traditional static asset allocation, incorporating asset allocation
of equities, fixed income and non-traditional exposures.
First, consistent with our other
equity vehicles, OSUs deliver value in the form
of Intel common stock, focusing the leadership
team on ensuring the long - term viability
of the company.
With a powerful and experienced in - house accounting and finance
team, Fairview is able to provide institutional investors with a range
of innovative private
equity portfolio management solutions.
«More than two years after the financial crisis, we believe the U.S. financial services sector is poised to shift toward capital deployment from capital accumulation in 2011,» wrote Keefe Bruyette & Wood's North America
Equity Research
team of analysts in a 2011 finance - sector outlook published in December.
This week, we sit down Lazard Asset Management's James Donald, who serves as head
of its Emerging Markets
Equity team.
Our
team consists
of investment professionals with expertise across a broad range
of disciplines — distressed securities and assets, control and non-control private
equity investing, commercial mid-market lending and real estate - related investments.
Now with committed
equity capital in excess
of # 180m, Cairngorm Capital's investment
team is increasing the pace
of investment activity, as well as the number
of investment opportunities that it evaluates.
In addition, Chris was a senior member
of Makena's Absolute Return investment
team, where he focused on hedge fund investments across numerous strategies, including distressed credit, hedged
equity, structured credit, specialty finance, macro and reinsurance.
Previously, he was also a member
of Makena's Private
Equity team which was responsible for investments in venture capital, growth equity, and bu
Equity team which was responsible for investments in venture capital, growth
equity, and bu
equity, and buyouts.
The investment approach
of the
teams advising the energy and renewable resources and infrastructure funds is similar to that
of our Corporate Private
Equity funds, with certain additional objectives.
We are joined by a
team of Equity Partners: 45 + experienced technical founders and executives, engineers, data scientists, and leading researchers with significant current or previous tenures at institutions like: Facebook, VMware, LinkedIn, Apple, Google, Stanford, Illumina, Oracle, Salesforce, AirBnB, Twitter, Intel, Amazon, Cisco, Netflix, Celgene, CVS Health, UC Berkeley, and NASA.
«We are excited to partner with David Webster and the rest
of ECI's talented management
team,» said Michael Sanford, Co-Head
of North American Private
Equity and Senior Managing Director
of Cerberus.