Close Bros buys stake in Freyburg
CLOSE BROTHERS, the UK investment banking group, yesterday said its corporate finance arm had acquired a majority interest in German independent corporate finance house Freyberg Hambros.
Close Bros said the move would place it in a strong position to take advantage of the consolidation among German Mittelstand, or medium-sized companies. The group did not disclose the price paid for business, which has been renamed Freyberg Close Brothers
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