Resources

28.5.2018

Clairfield International Partners gather in Milan

Clairfield International held its most recent partner meeting in Milan on May 24-25, 2018, organized by the local Italian partner K Finance. Partners and colleagues from 22 countries gathered both for presentations from experts in the financial community on the sector’s most pressing issues and for discussing internal best practices and evaluating outlooks. The sessions […]

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17.5.2018

Leading firm in Turkey joins Clairfield International

Clairfield International is pleased to announce that Canyon Venture Partners has joined Clairfield International as its exclusive partner for Turkey. The new Clairfield Turkey, based in Istanbul, was founded in 2013 from the partnership among seasoned financial executives in the region. Founder and chairman Metin Ar served as the president and CEO of Garanti Securities, […]

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26.4.2018

The Clairfield academy gives Frankfurt School of Finance students insights into M&A

Clairfield International sponsored a learning and outreach event for students at the Frankfurt School of Finance earlier this month. The invitation-only event for the top students at this leading business school gave a taste of life in the corporate finance world. The afternoon consisted of a workshop on valuation and a roundtable on opportunities and […]

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04.4.2018

Capturing the post-merger value

At InterFinancial’s recent M&A Insiders event, we were fortunate enough to have Darren Stanley from Citadel Group discuss a few key learnings from his years across roles in the military, the IT industry, and most recently as Citadel Group’s Chief Executive Officer. Citadel’s M&A strategy is structured around the core purpose of keeping people safe. […]

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20.3.2018

Rural property market update (agriculture commentary)

David Hassum recently attended the annual Rural Property Market update presented by Herron Todd White (HTW). Below are some of our key take-outs from Mick’s presentation, with David’s added spin on them. Productivity gains can do it World-wide agricultural productivity has been increasing at about 2% pa. If that trend continues, productivity gains alone should […]

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28.2.2018

Clairfield Annual Review 2018

We are pleased to make available our look back at M&A in 2017 and a forecast of what’s to come in 2018, including sector outlooks with the contributions of esteemed clients, senior advisors, and friends. Read the publication.

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15.2.2018

Family business succession planning 101

A few years ago, our newsletter explored the succession planning paradox. That is, many businesses don’t have a clear succession plan in place, despite this being essential for value preservation and risk management. A number of studies on the topic have been published since this time, and overall it seems that not much has changed. […]

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17.1.2018

Clairfield international ranked at the top of 2017 league tables

Clairfield International is pleased to announce that Clairfield has once again been ranked at the top of the league tables for financial advisors by Thomson Reuters. Clairfield International stands out among boutique investment banking firms in achieving high ranks alongside bulge-bracket banks, placed 17th in the small-cap segment worldwide and 12th in Europe by number of […]

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15.1.2018

Hall Contracting receives investment from Crescent Capital

In the final moments of 2017, InterFinancial helped secure an investment in Hall Contracting, the Australian-owned civil and marine contracting business, from Sydney-based private equity firm, Crescent Capital Partners. Hall is a third generation family business founded over 70 years ago. As part of their succession planning process, the shareholders were seeking an experienced partner […]

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