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M&A activity has picked up across the alternative investment sector, driving the demand in these spaces for strategic communications counsel—and presenting untold opportunities for marketing professionals working in an otherwise subdued financial services climate.
Gagnier Communications handles Authentic Restaurant Brands as it acquires Fiesta Restaurant Group, which uses Joele Frank, in a deal worth $225M.
Alan Sexton, SVP and CCO at Prudential Financial, has left after a nearly six-year stint for Balyasny Asset Management.
FGS Global represents Freeman, a 96-year-old Dallas-based event management company, as it acquires Sparks, live + digital experiential marketer in Philadelphia.
US Steel appoints Goldman Sachs' Emily Chieng as investor relations officer, effective in September. She will succeed Kevin Lewis, who took on the role of VP, finance last December.
Sitrick And Company is working the Chapter 11 filing of Atlanta's Williams Industrial Services Group.
Joele Frank represents KSL Capital Partners as the private equity takes a majority stake in Italy’s Sereno Hotels.
The Managed Funds Association, which represents the alternative asset management sector, has named Georgette Sierra as VP-US government affairs.
FGS Global represents SoftwareOne as the Swiss technology company receives its second unsolicited takeover offer from private equity firm Bain Capital.
Singer Associates represents Anchor Brewing, which bills itself as America’s first craft brewer, as Japan’s Sapporo decides to pull the plug on the iconic San Francisco beer maker that it acquired in 2017.
Gladstone Place Partners and ICR are taking Oklo nuclear fission startup that is backed by Open AI CEO Sam Altman public via a merger with his AltC Acquisition Corp. blank check company.
Stanton represents Conning Holdings Ltd. as the asset manager for the insurance industry agrees to be acquired by Generali Investment Holdings.
Kekst CNC is representing electric pickup truck maker Lordstown Motors as it files for Chapter 11 and sues its erstwhile business partner Foxconn for fraud and a failure to live up to its financial commitments.
ICR Inc. represents Pinstripes as the dining and entertainment brand plans to go public via a SPAC deal with Banyan Acquisition Corp. valued at $520M.
Longacre Square Partners guided Mind Medicine as the psychedelic drug company declared victory in the proxy contest against a group that included its co-founder and former chairman Scott Freeman.
FGS Global handles Alkermes plc as the biopharmaceutical seeks to thwart hedge fund Sarissa Capital’s bid to win board seats at the June 29 annual meeting.
Bob Pickard resigns as global PR chief at the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, claiming that it is dominated by “Communist Party hacks.”
Joele Frank is handling the Chapter 11 filing of Instant Brands, owner of the Pyrex, Corelle, CorningWare and Instant Pot brands that are found in 90 percent of US households.
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