Larry Larsen, senior VP at MSLGroup and former principal at Sard Verbinnen & Co, has landed at IR/PR shop Dresner Corporate Services in Chicago to serve as senior advisor.
Larsen, who served with Dresner managing director Steve Carr on the board of NIRI/Chicago, left Sard last year and co-led MSLGroup's financial and crisis practice in the U.S. during a brief stint.
He previously headed Weber Shandwick's Boston financial and professional services practice in New England. Earlier stints included Edelman, FleishmanHillard and Hill+Knowlton Strategies.
At Dresner, which also has a New York office, he focuses on financial transactions and corporate events like IPOs, M&A, crises and bankruptcies.
Edelman handles Viking Holdings, the river and ocean luxury cruise line that plans to raise $1B via an IPO priced in the $21 to $25 per share range.
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.
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