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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.
Hut 8, energy infrastructure platform, has named NextEra Energy's Mark Eidelman head of IR and SVP of strategic finance.
Teneo handles easyJet as Minneapolis investment firm Castlelake mulls a possible takeover of the British budget airline.
Brunswick Group represents Universal Music Group as it rejects the unsolicited $65B takeover offer by billionaire Ed Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management because it “fundamentally and materially undervalues” the world’s largest music company.
Prosek Partners brings on Danielle O’Brien as a managing director in its investor relations practice, based in the firm’s New York office.
Houston’s Dancie Perugini Ware PR represents Fertitta Entertainment as it takes Caesars Entertainment private in a $17.6B cash deal. 
