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Siam Cement Group Acquires Equity Stakes in Long Son Petrochemicals

30th November 2018
VILAF advised Vina SCG Chemicals Co., Ltd. (“VSCG”), its wholly-owned subsidiary of Siam Cement Group, in a sequence of transactions to buy out 25% and 29% of the equity stakes in Long Son Petrochemicals Company Limited (“LSP”) from Qatar Petroleum and PetroVietnam respectively. The chain of transactions was completed in June 2018. The transactions increased Siam […]
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Claranet Italia Acquires XPeppers

30th November 2018
Claranet, a European leader in the hosting and management of critical applications, has announced the acquisition of Italian DevOps and cloud specialist XPeppers. Founded in 2010, XPeppers is a value-added systems integrator specialising in AWS managed services, DevOps and Agile technologies. Having built strong relationships with a number of large businesses, XPeppers has become a respected […]
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Americas Power Partners Acquires Sammartein Biogas Società Agricola

30th November 2018
Masotti Berger Cassella acted as legal adviser to Americas Power Partners, an American company part of the Armstrong Group, in its acquisition of Sammartein Biogas Società Agricola. Based in the US, Americas Power Partners, Inc. engages in generating electricity, primarily utilising cogeneration technologies. The company focuses on developing domestic industrial cogeneration plants that produce electricity […]
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WARC Acquired by Ascential

30th November 2018
Ascential plc (LSE: ASCL.L), the global specialist information company, has announced the acquisition of the entire share capital of WARC Limited for an initial cash consideration of £19.5m (subject to a normalised working capital adjustment), plus deferred consideration of £4.5m payable in 2019. WARC is a global digital subscription business that helps brands, agencies and […]
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Fistral Beach Hotel & Spa – The Perfect Cornish Retreat

30th November 2018
It’s hard not to fall in love with Cornwall and its long, rugged coastline and hundreds of sandy beaches. It’s also hard not to fall in love with Fistral Beach Hotel & Spa and its perfect location right next to surfers’ favourite Fistral Beach. In addition to sensational views, staying in a room here grants […]
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GDPR 6 Months on: Repercussions & Challenges

30th November 2018
Effectiveness So Far The run up to the implementation date of the EU General Data Protection Regulation on 25 May 2018 saw a flurry of activity – most visibly in communications with customers; notifying them of changes in privacy policies and seeking their opt-in consent for marketing activities. While many communications were not strictly necessary, […]
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The Top Benefits and Challenges of AI Adoption in the Financial Sector

30th November 2018
The emergence of AI has had a positive impact on the financial industry and has enhanced productivity, in particular in the accounting and banking areas. Therefore I anticipate that machine learning will definitely be a significant area of investment in the near future for this sector.   However, as with any change of this magnitude, the […]
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It's Time to Actively Pursue Digital Transformation

30th November 2018
Amidst a large swathe of planned job cuts at Lloyds, at the beginning of November the bank announced that there was a silver lining - a £3 billion investment programme that will see the country’s biggest high-street lender radically transform its digital strategy. While 6,000 existing roles are being cut from a broad range of […]
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Don’t Let Spreadsheet Risk Derail Your RegTech Investment

30th November 2018
Given the long list of regulations that organisations need to comply with – CECL, IFRS9, MiFID II, SOX, CCPA, BCBS 239, SR 11-7, Solvency II, GDPR, CCPA, among others – investment by organisations in Regulatory Technology (RegTech) is estimated to grow by a whopping 45% annually on average over the next five years. This represents a […]
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Creating Value with Operational Intervention

30th November 2018
Private equity has gotten a bad rap throughout the years, thanks in part to the popular image of an uncaring operator who buys and sells companies without concern. For a truly successful modern PE company that accomplishes high multiples through attention and care, that couldn’t be further from the truth. In practice, a great private […]
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Blockchain Technology - Taking Data Rooms into the Modern Era

30th November 2018
Blockchain has been synonymous with crypto currencies for some time but its range of applications and roles in the wider digital transformation are now much more fully understood. This is certainly true of the financial industry, which is gradually shaking off its legacy systems and incorporating this revolutionary technology into an ever-growing number of uses. […]
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Charitable Giving: What Should Businesses be Mindful of?

30th November 2018
Finance Monthly speaks to the Director of the Financial Planning Program at Stephen F. Austin State University - Banker Phares, who has been licensed to practice law in the State of Texas since 1964. He was founding member of the Estate Planning and Probate Specialty for the State Bar of Texas in 1977 and still […]
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