Luke Barrett, senior VP at Abernathy MacGregor, has moved to TPG Capital private equity firm as external affairs director in New York.
The eight-year veteran of the Havas property takes over for Adam Levine, who was let go for allegedly leaking confidential documents to the media.
TPG and Levine have been squabbling via lawsuits.
Barrett has provided financial and corporate counsel to Walmart, PepsiCo, SAB Miller and Vodafone.
He also handle M&A deals such as Hudson Bay's acquisition of Saks and JAB's move on the coffee business of Mondelez International.
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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