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| Amy Feng & Marco Castellani |
Amy Feng, who headed investor relations at Shopify, has joined Edelman Smithfield financial communications advisory as executive VP and senior leader in New York.
She also worked at financial PR powerhouses Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher as managing director and Abernathy McGregor as executive VP.
Earlier, Feng did stints at JMP Securities and Lehman Brothers.
Edelman Smithfield, which has more than 250 advisors, also added Citigroup’s Marco Castellani to boost its shareholder activism capabilities.
He was a director in the bank’s shareholder advisory group, focusing on shareholder activism defense and contested M&A.
Castellani was at Boston Consulting Group, handling corporate development, strategy, and turnarounds.
Longacre Square Partners represents Ancora Holdings as it urges the board of Big Yellow Group to conduct a strategic review of the UK’s No. 1 self-storage company.
Kekst CNC handles Getty Images as it begins a prepackaged Chapter 11 reorganization and receives a commitment from Koch Equity Development and the Getty family to invest $533M in the visual content company.
As capital concentrates among established firms, emerging managers must find new ways to earn investor confidence.
Teneo handles True Food Kitchen as the Scottsdale, AZ-based wellness food restaurant chain that counts Oprah Winfrey as a minority investor files for Chapter 11.
FGS Global and Teneo represent Canada’s billionaire Weston family as its Wittington Investments holding company acquires Boots Group, the 177-year-old UK health & beauty retailer, from Sycamore Partners for $8.9B.
