FGS Global Works $10B Zendesk Deal
Fri, Jun. 24, 2022
By Kevin McCauley
FGS Global represents Zendesk as the San Francisco-based customer engagement software company is acquired by Hellman & Friedman and Permira investment firms in a $10.2B deal.
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FGS Global represents Zendesk as the San Francisco-based customer engagement software company is acquired by Hellman & Friedman and Permira investment firms in a $10.2B deal.
Kekst CNC handles Lucid Energy Group as it agrees to be acquired by Targa Resources in a cash deal worth $3.6B.
Longacre Square Partners handles communications for the reorganization of Revlon, which on June 16 filed for Chapter 11 in US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
ICR Inc. is handling media for Blue Nile, an online retailer of conflict-free diamonds, as it goes public via a deal with Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corp. special acquisition company.
Kekst CNC is working for Greenwich, CT-based Atlas Holdings as it acquires family-owned Foster Farms, which markets a top-selling turkey and chicken brand in the West.
Chubb Limited has tapped Cheryl Krauss as senior vice president, Chubb Group and chief communications officer, effective June 6.
Public Policy Holding Co. posted 28.2 percent revenue growth to $99M in 2021, a year that included completion of an IPO and listing on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market of small and medium-sized growth companies.
Brunswick Group is handling South Africa’s Gold Fields Ltd. as it inks a $6.7B agreement to acquire Canada’s Yanama Gold to create the world’s No. 4 gold mining company.
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher represents Broadcom as it moves to acquire VMware cloud software company in a $69B deal.
Melissa Murphy, executive VP at Sunstar Strategic, has joined Allspring Global Investments, which has more than $540B in assets under management, as head of PR.
Carl Icahn is using Longacre Square Partners in his quest to place two directors on McDonald’s board at its May 26 annual meeting.
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Ronald Clark, VP-IR at San Francisco-based fintech company Affirm, has joined Teneo as managing director of its SF outpost.
ICR Inc. handles Fortune International as it acquires D’Artagnan, a leader in the “farm-to-table” movement in a deal pegged in the $100M range.
Edelman (+18.6 percent to $100.8M), ICR Inc. (+60.7 percent to $97.8M) and Prosek Partners (+29.9 percent to $70M) topped O’Dwyer’s 2022 ranking of financial PR firms.
Jennifer Bombardier, who was director of US personal banking communications at Citibank, has joined Morgan Stanley.
Sard Verbinnen & Co. represents Alleghany Corp. as the insurer agrees to to be acquired by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway via an $11.6B cash deal.
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