C. Allen Merritt and Lindsay Cook have joined
as partners at Boston International Capital Partners LLC, a strategic consulting
firm focusing primarily on insurance, investment management and related industries.
Most recently, Merritt was executive vice president and chief operating officer
and Cook was executive vice president at Liberty Financial Companies, Inc.,
a NYSE-listed insurance and investment management organization.
Sovereign Bank names William E. Andrzeicik,
Vice President, Senior Corporate Banker within Sovereign Bank's newly-formed
Corporate Banking Development Group.
The Nassau Group announces several new hires:
Peter M. McGowan, Managing Director -- Technology (Electronics and Semiconductor),
prior Managing Director in Technology Group at Alex. Brown and Lehman Brothers;
Jeffrey S. Rubin, Managing Director -- Technology (IT and Telecommunications),
prior Managing Member of Windsor Group Securities; Thomas L. Piper III, Senior
Advisor, prior Managing Director and Head of Equity Capital Markets at Dillon,
Read & Co.; Albert S. Han, Vice President, and prior Principal with Windsor
Group Securities; Alan J. Canzano, Senior Associate, prior Associate with Goldman,
Sachs Merger and Strategic Advisory Group.
Alan Hollander, Managing Partner of Equation Partners, advised
Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) on the divestiture of the assets of its subsidiary,
Perception Laminates, Inc., including its manufacturing facility in California
which fabricated laminates for printed circuit boards.
Windjammer Capital led a $36 million subordinated
debt investment and provided a $5 million equity co-investment in support of
an acquisition made by the portfolio company of an equity sponsor.
Bingham McCutchen LLP, an 800-attorney firm
with offices from Boston, New York, Washington, and London to Los Angeles, San
Francisco, and Silicon Valley, has merged with Riordan & McKinzie, a 60-lawyer
corporate and private-equity boutique based in Los Angeles. The merger was effective
July 1.
Den White, a newly transplanted partner at the Boston office
of McDermott Will & Emery and Chairman of the Boston Chapter
of ACG, recently represented Bionostics, Inc., a Devens, Mass., manufacturer
of quality-control materials for the medical diagnostics market, to Ferraris
Group plc, a UK public company.
Fleet M&A Advisors, a division of Fleet
Securities, Inc., served as exclusive financial advisor to GTECH Corp., the
leading manufacturer, operator and supplier of online lottery systems to domestic
and international lottery authorities, in its acquisition of PolCard, S.A.,
a leading provider of debt and credit processing services based in Poland.
