The $120B bank holding company behind the Citizens Bank and Charter One bank chains has brought in Ellen Taylor as an executive VP to lead investor relations ahead of a partial IPO. Taylor recently led her own boutique IR shop, McIver Taylor Group, and was previously managing director of IR at BlackRock. She was also senior VP and IR director at Wells Fargo and Wachovia Corp.
At Providence, R.I.-based RBS Citizens Financial Group, she is developing and leading an IR program as the holding company slates a partial IPO and series of follow-on offerings.
The company, owned by the bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland Group, includes 1,400 bank branches.
Teneo is handling the initial public offering of CVC Capital Partners, one of Europe’s largest private equity firms with nearly $200B in assets under management.
Brunswick Group represents Endeavor Group Holdings as it agrees to go private via its acquisition by Silver Lake technology investment firm, which is handled by Edelman Smithfield.
Tod Donhauser, a nine-year veteran of Edelman, has joined H/Advisors Abernathy as managing director and head of its San Francisco office.
Intelligent Group Ltd, a Hong Kong-based financial PR firm, has priced its initial public offering of 1.9M shares at $4, which is the low end of the $4 to $5 range.
Kekst CNC represents Grant Thornton as it sells a majority stake in its US arm to New Mountain Capital, which relies on Goldin Solutions, in what is billed as the largest PE investment in the accounting and advisory sector.
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