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JPMorgan’s Strategic Advisory Push: Balancing Deeper Client Ties Against Margin Risks

Americas Firms Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

JPMorgan launched “Special Advisory Services,...

Basic or one-off help will be free, while lar...

The move builds on strong 2025 investment-ban...

It aims to deepen client stickiness and cross...

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Global FYI Depository Credit Intermediation

The provided J.P. Morgan link resolves to sit...

No facts, quotes, dates, or financial analysi...

A substantive summary or market takeaway requ...

Freeman Spogli’s $45M Bet on El Pollo Loco in 2007: Growth, Risks, and Restaurant Strategy

Americas M&A Restaurants and Other Eating Places

Freeman Spogli & Co. invested $45 million in ...

The capital was aimed at accelerating nationa...

The deal came amid a $22 million trademark/de...

At the time, El Pollo Loco had 389 restaurant...

Bain Capital Fund XIV Raises $14B: What It Reveals About PE Strategy & LP Alignment

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Bain Capital closed Fund XIV at $14 billion, ...

With Europe VI and Asia V (both 2023), Bain’s...

The firm will invest across five core sectors...

Bain says it will deploy capital selectively ...

How Sanctions—not Brexit—Sealed the Fate of VTB Capital’s London Unit

Europe Firms Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

In 2016, VTB Capital floated scaling down Lon...

VTB Capital Plc remained in London until sanc...

The UK unit entered administration in late 20...

Recent reporting centers on legal and credito...

CCMP Growth IV Closes USD 500M+ Fund for U.S. Industrial & Consumer Growth Firms

Americas Firms Other Investment Pools and Funds

CCMP Growth Advisors closed its first fund si...

Fund IV targets North American middle-market ...

The fund is over half deployed across four pl...

Leadership succession is positioned as contin...

WOW!’s $1.5B Take-Private Deal: New CEO Frank van der Post to Lead Fiber-Focused Transformation

Americas M&A Wired Telecommunications Carriers

WOW! named Frank van der Post CEO effective J...

DigitalBridge and Crestview completed the tak...

The new owners and CEO plan to invest in netw...

Van der Post brings fiber-broadband and comme...

Telecom Firm Faces Leadership Shake-up Amid Take-Private Push & Fiber Expansion Hurdles

Americas M&A Wired Telecommunications Carriers

DigitalBridge and Crestview Partners closed a...

Frank van der Post, former Breezeline preside...

WOW! is prioritizing fiber expansion after pa...

Operationally, legacy video/phone revenues ar...

DigitalBridge Series H Preferred Near 9% Yield Amid SoftBank Deal—What Investors Should Know

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

DigitalBridge’s Series H preferred (DBRG.PR.H...

SoftBank will buy the common at $16/share in ...

Series H is a 7.125% cumulative, perpetual, c...

Key risks are delisting/loss of SEC reporting...

Why SoftBank’s DigitalBridge Deal Signals a Major Shift in AI Infrastructure

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

SoftBank agreed to buy DigitalBridge in an al...

The offer implies a 15% premium to the Decemb...

DigitalBridge will remain a separately manage...

SoftBank frames the deal as an AI-infrastruct...