Reevemark Backs Bid for Gannett
Mon, Jan. 14, 2019
By Kevin McCauley
Reevemark, the strategic advisory firm launched last year by Sard Verbinnen & Co. veterans, is backing the takeover bid for Gannett, publisher of USA Today.
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Reevemark, the strategic advisory firm launched last year by Sard Verbinnen & Co. veterans, is backing the takeover bid for Gannett, publisher of USA Today.
Frederick Hill, who led media outreach for the Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and its chairman Republican John Thune (SD), has joined FTI Consulting’s strategic communications unit.
Gladstone Place Partners handled the launch of the Members Exchange or MEMX, which is envisioned as a low-cost stock exchange designed to challenge the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.
ICR has acquired Westwicke Partners, a health-centered investor relations firm based in Baltimore with offices in New York, Boston, San Diego, San Francisco and London.
FrontFour Capital Group, which owns a 5.3 percent stake in MDC Partners, has launched an effort to oust three of eight directors of the ad/PR holding company.
ICR has appointed Peter Stabler, who was managing director at Wells Fargo Securities, head of its Internet investor relations practice.
Luby's casual dining chain is using Sloane & Co. as it fends off a proxy fight by hedge fund Bandera Partners.
Gladstone Place Partners and Abernathy MacGregor handle the $4.4B cash acquisition of Travelport Worldwide by Siris Capital Group and Evergreen Coast Capital, the Menlo Park technology affiliate of Elliott Management Corp.
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Brunswick Group is handling TheStreet’s deal to sell its B2B business (The Deal and BoardEx) to Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC for $87.3M.
Bain Capital taps Stanton Public Relations & Marketing to handle news of a "hardship fund" created for Toys "R" Us workers who were fired following the liquidation of its US operations. (1 reader comment)
Jorge Padilla, deputy editor-in-chief of Reforma, an influential Mexican newspaper, has joined FTI Consulting in Mexico City.
Sard Verbinnen & Co. is handling Veritas Capital’s $5.7B deal ($135 per-share) for Athenahealth, which provides technology services for hospital and ambulatory companies.
ICR has hired Sara Bell, a veteran of Porter Novelli, Golin and Edelman, to power the financial firm's tech practice on the west coast.
Joele Frank counsels CommScope, network infrastructure firm, as it acquires ARRIS International, telecom equipment maker, in an all-cash transaction worth $7.4B to forge an $11.3B entity.
Carolyn Hudson, who was executive VP in Weber Shandwick’s employee engagement & change management practice, is now at FTI Consulting as a managing director in its strategic communications segment. (1 reader comment)
Kekst CNC represents Avista Capital Partners as the private equity firm acquires the dermatology and topicals business of G&W Laboratories.
ICR has hired Lyndon Park, a veteran of Dimensional Fund Advisors and Blackrock Investment Stewardship, to lead its newly established governance advisory solutions practice.
Joele Frank Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher handles Red Hat as IBM agrees to acquire the software company for $34B, which represents a robust 63 premium over its closing stock price of Oct. 26.
Abernathy MacGregor is handling the encore performance of legendary guitar Gibson Brands as it plans to emerge from Chapter 11 on Nov. 1.
Finsbury represents Japan’s Calsonic Kansei Corp., which is owned by investment firm giant KKR, as it plans to shell out $7B to buy Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s parts business.
Omnicom CEO John Wren today reported a 13.4 percent rise to $298.4M in third-quarter net income on flat revenues of $3.7B. PR group ticks ahead 0.7 percent, 2.3 percent organically.
Corporate, financial and M&A communications advisory giant Kekst & Company have merged with Publicis financial and corporate communications unit CNC.
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