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Paul Soldatos is head of European corporate investment activities at investment bank Investcorp, founded by Nemir Kirdar in 1982 and owned by some 10,000 Arabian Gulf investors. The company has been active in arranging over 50 investments, together worth more than $7 billion. Investcorp has investments in luxury goods companies Saks Fifth Avenue, Gucci and Tiffany & Co., but is also active in supermarkets, watchmaking and convenience stores. Before he joined Investcorp, Soldatos, with a degree in business administration, managed Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.'s acquisition finance division in London.
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Singer and Friedlander is a merchant bank with a branch in Birmingham, England. The company is the sole merchant bank which is operational in Birmingham, and has stayed in the city for over three decades. Ian Dighe is a director of the company, and has previously been involved in corporate finance with the Manchester Exchange and Investment Bank. He argues that Birmingham companies using Singer and Friedlander gain the benefit of a merchant bank based in London, and the bank's local expertise.
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Baring Brothers acted on two public takeovers worth 9.3 billion pounds sterling in the first quarter of 1995, and was the leading adviser on UK public takeovers in the period. The 9.1 billion pounds sterling takeover of Wellcome by Glaxo was responsible for putting the merchant bank in first place. Second place was taken by Lazards, which was involved in two bids worth 9.2 billion pounds sterling.
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