Initiated and advised Optima Fund Management on the formation of a strategic alliance with Mellon Private Asset Management. Optima is a leading hedge fund management group, offering more than 20 multi-adviser and single-adviser domestic and offshore funds. Its distribution agreement with MPAM contains exclusivity provisions in the United States. MPAM subsequently acquired a minority interest.

Advised IBJ Whitehall on its acquisition of a 50% interest in Butler Chapman. The two firms share a similar focus on client base and plan to offer a "one-stop" service to middle market companies.

Advised IBJ Whitehall on its acquisition of a 50% interest in Atlantic Asset Management Partners, a Stamford, CT-based manager of over $4 billion in fixed income and high-yield portfolios for institutions.

Completed a strategic review for a publicly-traded US mutual fund group. Provided strategic recommendations with respect to marketing and distribution (including internet initiatives), investment products and their manufacture, and back office and fund administration.

Advised First Republic Bancorp in connection with its two-stage acquisition of Trainer, Wortham & Co., a leading New York-based private client manager.

Advised Peter Cundill & Associates on the sale of its mutual fund business to Mackenzie Financial, combined with an exclusive North American joint venture to market Cundill-branded mutual funds to North American retail investors.

For a leading North American insurance and investment management group, prepared a detailed study (based on proprietary research) of the organization, evolution and strategic direction of the investment management activities of 14 major global insurance groups.

Initiated the sale of a minority interest in International Finance and Development Corporation to Asset Management Investment Company, a UK investment trust. IFDC is a Paris-based specialist international equity and mutual fund manager.

Advised American Express on its Kenwood Partners joint venture, a manager of quantitative small-cap equities, in a transaction initiated by Cambridge.

Initiated and completed the sale of Solon Asset Management to Turner Investment Partners. Solon was a California-based fixed income manager.

Advised SLC Asset Management on the acquisition of Langbourn Property Investment Services. This transaction was preceded by a strategic review of the UK property manager market for SLCAM, Sun Life Financial’s UK asset management subsidiary.

Advised Sun Life Financial on the acquisition of a 60% interest in McLean Budden Limited, then a $6 billion Canadian institutional manager majority-owned by Gartmore, and the merger of Sun Life’s institutional investment management subsidiary, SUNIMCO, into McLean Budden.

Advised AMI Partners, on the sale of its Quantitative Capital and Private Capital divisions to Toronto Dominion Bank, which also acquired a 30% interest in the remaining institutional investment counsel. The transaction also involved the redemption of MetLife’s convertible debt. AMI and affiliates managed C$10 billion for Canadian high-net-worth and institutional clients.

Advised AMI Partners on the sale to Robert and Jardine Fleming of AMI’s 50% interest in Fleming Canada Partners. FCP was then the leading Canadian manager of international equities for institutional clients.