PR firms have entered the fray as Boingo Wireless fends off a proxy challenge from activist hedge fund Ides Capital Management.
Sloane & Company is representing Ides, which has put forth two candidates for Boingo's board ahead of the wireless company's 2016 annual meeting. Managing director Dan Zacchei heads the work.
Ides said Boingo "has been dragging its feet" in talks as the hedge fund raps Boingo's governance and financial performance as "woefully poor" since its May 2011 IPO.
Boingo, working with Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher for PR and Mackenzie Partners for proxy solicitation, said it is open to a continued dialog with Ides and welcomes the opportunity to interview its nominees to avoid a proxy contest. The company claims it has requested Ides facilitate interviews with its nominees and Boingo's board on seven occasions, but Ides has refused.
Joele Frank San Francisco chief Jed Repko reps Los Angeles-based Boingo.
Publicly traded Boingo, which provides Wi-Fi services and hotspots, posted revenue of $139.6M in 2015, up 17% over the prior year.
Teneo is handling the initial public offering of CVC Capital Partners, one of Europe’s largest private equity firms with nearly $200B in assets under management.
Brunswick Group represents Endeavor Group Holdings as it agrees to go private via its acquisition by Silver Lake technology investment firm, which is handled by Edelman Smithfield.
Tod Donhauser, a nine-year veteran of Edelman, has joined H/Advisors Abernathy as managing director and head of its San Francisco office.
Intelligent Group Ltd, a Hong Kong-based financial PR firm, has priced its initial public offering of 1.9M shares at $4, which is the low end of the $4 to $5 range.
Kekst CNC represents Grant Thornton as it sells a majority stake in its US arm to New Mountain Capital, which relies on Goldin Solutions, in what is billed as the largest PE investment in the accounting and advisory sector.
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