Financial tombstone marking the sale of shares in Citco III Ltd., to General Atlantic and Stone Point Capital, both based in Greenwich, Connecticut. TAP Advisors, a New York firm, served as sole advisor to Citco in the transaction.
Cross-border transactions have inspired many custom awards with designs based on maps, flags, clocks, and currencies.
Financial tombstone marking the sale of shares in Citco III Ltd., to General Atlantic and Stone Point Capital, both based in Greenwich, Connecticut. TAP Advisors, a New York firm, served as sole advisor to Citco in the transaction.
Lucite commemorating a fund launched by London-based Apax Partners.
Financial tombstone relating to the sale by EQT of Contex, a digital imaging firm. Denmark-based Contex was advised by SEB Enskilda, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
Lucite tombstone marking the acquisition by London-based Hg Capital of Italian accounting software firm TeleSystem. The seller was Bain Capital, a private equity firm headquartered in Boston.
Deal toy related to the purchase of a majority stake in outsourcing firm Patni Computer Systems by iGate and Apax Partners (now iGate Patni, and headquartered in Mumbai, India). Apax was advised in the transaction by Standard Chartered.
Custom dealtoy marking a bridge loan made to Kraft for the acquisition of confectioner Cadbury, based in Birmingham, England, by Kraft Foods, headquartered in Northfield and Deerfield, Illinois. Underwriters were led by Citi, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, and Barclays.
Custom Lucite celebrating the merger of Express and Arla Foods, two dairies based in the United Kingdom.
Custom Lucite tombstones celebrating a series of Mexico-based transactions involving Coca-Cola-FEMSA, and J.P. Morgan.
Financial tombstone deal toy celebrating the acquisition by PepsiCo, headquartered in Purchase, New York, of Amacoco Nordeste Ltda. and Amacoco Sudeste Ltda. two brands based in Brazil.
Deal toys and financial tombstones involving cross-border transactions are featured in the galleries beginning on this page. Altogether, you’ll find over 150 deal toys having cross-border or international themes.
You’ll notice deal toy designs commemorating a number of celebrated, high-profile cross-border deals. These include those involving 21st Century Fox, Sky, and Comcast, and Grupo Televisa and Univision. You’ll also see tombstones involving a number of established international companies and brands, such as Siemens, Roche, Citigroup, Moody’s, Toyota, Mitsubishi, and Roche.
As you might expect for transactions involving participants and properties spanning multiple countries, there are some recurring designs. These include deal toy designs involving maps, flags, compasses, globes, currency symbols, state emblems, national mascots, as well as working clocks highlighting different time zones.
But the designs here also reflect a full range not only of countries and regions but also of sectors and industries. Among the lower-profile deals you’ll find commemorated here are for instance, a Japanese investment in a U.S.-based manufacturer of piloted flying vehicles; an Australian acquisition by a Swedish environmental tech company; a Polish-Spanish joint venture centered on offshore wind projects; a joint venture between a Michigan-based footwear manufacturer and a Chinese sports retailer; the acquisition by a British firm of a California producer of integrated circuits; and the sale of the Chinese business of a German retailer.
You’ll also see recognized here transactions that, while not cross-border, have regional or country-specific themes that may be of interest.
Finally, you’ll find here relevant designs commemorating achievement and events unrelated to any specific transaction, cross-border or otherwise. These include, for instance, designs recognizing participation in a prestigious global medicine conference, and another given to speakers at an internationally-focused event sponsored by Harvard Business School.
