The Future of Venture Capital and Public Relations
Mon, Jan. 20, 2020
By Todd Barrish
Why venture capital firms should create more content as a means of attracting better deal flow.
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Why venture capital firms should create more content as a means of attracting better deal flow.
Kerri Mattox, who was global lead for integrated corporate communications at W2O Group, has joined Zimmer Biomet as senior VP/IR & chief communications officer, a new post.
Sard Verbinnen & Co. is handling the $3B merger of Xperi, audio, technology products company, with TiVo, video entertainment outfit.
London’s Instinctif Partners is handling Froneri’s $4B acquisition of Nestle USA’s ice cream business (Häagen-Dazs, Dreyer's, Edy's, Skinny Cow) to power its foray into the $10B American market.
Profile Advisors represents Ortelius Advisors, which has filed a lawsuit to block the takeover of Hudson’s Bay Co., owner of Saks Fifth Ave, by a group led by its executive chairman Richard Baker.
Brunswick Group has added Tim Daubenspeck, a veteran of Wall Street with 20 years of buy and sell side equity experience.
Sard Verbinnen & Co. represents managment group that is fending off an unsolicited bid for Hudson's Bay Co., parent company of Saks Fifth Ave.
Edelman is handling both ends of Silver Lake's $500M outlay for a 10 percent stake in City Football Group, parent of Britain's premium league champion Manchester City soccer club, an investment that gives CFG the world's richest valuation in sports.
Brunswick Group handles LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton’s $16.2B takeover of Tiffany & Co., which relies on Sard Verbinnen & Co.
Sloane & Co. is handling eBay’s $4B deal to sell StubHub to viagogo, the Geneva-based global online ticket platform for sports and entertainment events.
Edelman is handling New Belgium Brewing’s acquisition by Japan’s Kirin Holding Co. Ltd. The nation's No. 4 craft beer company has breweries in Fort Collins (CO) and Ashville (NC).
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher is handling Dallas-based Dean Foods as the nation's largest milk processor declares Chapter 11 and negotiates a sale of its assets to the Dairy Farmers of America cooperative.
Sard Verbinnen is handling David’s Bridal Inc. as it irons out a recapitalization plan to avoid another round of bankruptcy.
Kekst CNC is handling the $14.5B all-cash bid of LVMH Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton, the world’s No. 1 luxury goods group, for Tiffany & Co.
Sard Verbinnen & Co. handled investor relations for today’s New York Stock Exchange “lift-off” of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Holdings as it became the first publicly held space tourism company.
FTI Consulting's strategic communications unit posted 8.9 percent Q3 growth to $60M as it navigated a complex financial environment and political uncertainty. Operating income surged 20.2 percent to $11.3M.
Gladstone Place Partners is working the restructuring of The Howard Hughes Corp., redeveloper of New York's South Street Seaport District.
Finsbury is working Thoma Bravo investment firm’s $3.9B offer for Sophos Group, the UK-based cyber and network security software developer.
Duncan McCourt, who worked in the UK Treasury as chief of staff to chancellor Phillip Hammond until July, is joining Brunswick Group on Sept. 30.
Joele Frank is handling media for Alder BioPharmaceuticals, which is focused on the development and commercialization of migraine treatments, in its $2B sale to Denmark’s Lundbeck.
Headland Consultancy is fronting Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd.'s $37B bid to buy the London Stock Exchange, a transaction that it claims would create “a global market infrastructure leader.”
Mary Chung, who headed marketing, media relations and internal communications at Nomura Americas, has joined Intermarket, the New York-based financial PR specialist that is part of the UK's Lansons.
Karen Boykin-Towns, who was VP-corporate affairs for Pfizer’s $34B innovate medicines unit and is vice chairman of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, has joined Sard Verbinnen & Co. as senior counselor.
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