| File:Guggenheim Partners.gif | |
| Type | Limited liability company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Financial services |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Founder | Guggenheim family Mark Walter J. Todd Morley Dominic Curcio Peter Lawson-Johnston II |
| Headquarters | New York City Chicago |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Mark Walter CEO |
| Products | Investment banking Capital markets Investment management Merchant banking Wealth management Insurance Exchange-traded funds Unit investment trusts |
| Services | Diversified financial services |
| AUM | $270 billion |
| Owner | Private |
Number of employees | 2,400 |
| Website | guggenheimpartners guggenheiminvestments |
Guggenheim Partners is a global investment and advisory financial services firm that engages in investment banking, asset management, capital markets services, and insurance services.
Organization[]
The firm is headquartered in New York City and Chicago. It has more than $275 billion of assets under management.[1] The firm's CEO is Mark Walter.
Guggenheim Partners provides services across asset management, investment banking, and broker dealer services including capital markets. Guggenheim Investment Advisors oversees about $50 billion in assets.[2][3]
In October 2009, Guggenheim hired former J.P. Morgan head of Media Investment Banking Mark Van Lith as Senior Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking and former Apollo Global Management director and vice chairman Henry Silverman as vice chairman of asset management.[4]
In January 2013, Guggenheim named former Yahoo! interim CEO Ross Levinsohn as CEO of private equity unit Guggenheim Digital Media.[5]
In May & June 2013, the firm also hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s co-head of U.S. leveraged finance capital markets Tom Stein, former Barclays head of retail investment banking and vice chairman Andrew Taussig, as well as managing directors Spencer Hart, Matthew Pilla, Ken Harada and Ryan Mash.[6]
In September 2013, Guggenheim Securities was named a financial adviser to Verizon in connection with its $130 billion acquisition of Vodafone's 45% stake in Verizon Wireless.[7]
In March 2014, Guggenheim Securities hired Eric Mandl as a Senior Managing Director focusing on Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking.[8]
Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, the investment arm of Guggenheim Partners, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with failure to disclose a $50 million loan made in 2010 to a senior executive from a client. The firm paid $20 million in 2015 to settle the charges.[9] The government agency also found that Guggenheim's compliance program did not prevent violations of federal securities laws. According to the SEC, the firm's employees did not report dozens of trips on clients' private airplanes and had overbilled a client $6.5 million in fees, taking nearly two years to reimburse them.[9]
On December 17, 2015, it was reported that the company would spin out its media properties into a new holding company, Eldridge Industries, owned by an investment group led by Guggenheim president Todd Boehly, consisting of Mediabistro, Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter, and Dick Clark Productions.[10][11]
In April 2018, Invesco Ltd. announced that it completed its previously announced acquisition of Guggenheim Investments’ exchange-traded funds (ETF) business, which consisted of $38.8 billion of assets under management (as of Feb. 28, 2018) for $1.2 billion in cash.[12]
In October 2018, Guggenheim Securities was named the lead financial adviser to Red Hat in connection with its $34 billion sale to IBM.[13] The Red Hat sale is the largest software transaction in history.[14]
In September 2019, Donini was named to the additional role of Chief Operating Officer of Guggenheim Partners and Andrew Rosenfield, a managing partner, was appointed president.[15] Also in September 2019, Guggenheim hired former Deputy United States Attorney and Director of the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission Robert S. Khuzami as a Managing Partner and Chief Legal Officer. In the private sector Khuzami was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and worked at Deutsche Bank AG, including as General Counsel for the Americas.[16]
Investments[]
In May 2009, Guggenheim Partners acquired a controlling interest in financial services firm Transparent Value LLC.[17] In July 2009, it acquired Claymore Group, a firm known for its Exchange-traded funds and unit investment trusts.[18] In December 2009, Guggenheim acquired a division of Wellmark and renamed it Guggenheim Life & Annuity.[19] In February 2010, Guggenheim Partners acquired Security Benefit Corp, parent company of Rydex Funds.[20] In October 2011, it acquired the life insurance company EquiTrust from FBL Financial Group.[21] In 2012, Guggenheim affiliates acquired the US annuities business of Canadian insurers Industrial Alliance and Sun Life Financial.[22][23]
In July 2014, Guggenheim announced the launch of a representative office in Tokyo and the hiring of Atsuhito Sakai as Senior Managing Director and Guggenheim’s Representative in Japan.[citation needed] Also in 2014, the firm acquired the London operations of Lazard Capital Markets.[24] Guggenheim Securities expanded its investment banking business in July 2019 in Chicago with the hiring of two senior bankers from William Blair’s technology group, James Suprenant and Scott Stevens.[25]
That September, Guggenheim bought a stake in the entertainment production company Dick Clark Productions,[26] which produces specials such as the American Music Awards and the Golden Globe Awards and other television programming.
In January 2013, the company bought out the remainder of the business-to-business media company Prometheus Global Media[27][28] and acquired CardCash in November of the same year.[citation needed] In February 2014, Guggenheim Partners acquired the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA.[29]
See also[]
- Everything bubble
References[]
- ↑ "Guggenheim Partners – Home". Retrieved 2019-11-14.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Guggenheim 'Excited' About Private Equity, Likes Macro Funds". Bloomberg. October 8, 2009. https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=avJZCdo441lA.
- ↑ "Guggenheim Partners provides strategic direction". Guggenheimpartners. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ Lattman, Peter (March 8, 2012). "Henry Silverman Joins Guggenheim Partners". The New York Times. https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/financier-henry-silverman-joins-guggenheim.
- ↑ Nicholas Carlson (January 15, 2013). "Ex-Yahoo Interim CEO Ross Levinsohn Is Now CEO Of Guggenheim Digital Media". Business Insider.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Guggenheim lands Barclays retail team as flight to boutiques continues". Reuters. May 8, 2013. https://www.reuters.com/article/guggenheim-hirings-idUSL2N0DP24K20130508.
- ↑ "Verizon Buoys Guggenheim With Taubman on Awarding M&A Roles". Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-01/verizon-buoys-guggenheim-with-taubman-on-awarding-advisory-roles.html.
- ↑ "Guggenheim Poaches Tech Banker from Evercore". The New York Times (print and online versions). March 4, 2014. https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/guggenheim-poaches-tech-banker-from-evercore/.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Stevenson, Alexandra (August 10, 2015). "Guggenheim Partners Pays $20 Million to Settle S.E.C. Charges". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/business/guggenheim-partners-pays-dollar20-million-to-settle-sec-charges.html.
- ↑ "Guggenheim Prepares To Sell Hollywood Reporter, Dick Clark Productions To Exec". Deadline.com. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Guggenheim Media Spins Off Money-Losing Hollywood Reporter, Billboard to Company President Todd Boehly (Exclusive)". The Wrap. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ Invesco (2018-04-09). "Invesco expands its ability to meet client needs by completing its acquisition of Guggenheim Investments' ETF business" (PDF). Invesco.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ Peterson, Becky. "IT'S OFFICIAL: IBM is acquiring software company Red Hat for $34 billion". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "IBM TO ACQUIRE RED HAT, COMPLETELY CHANGING THE CLOUD LANDSCAPE AND BECOMING WORLD'S #1 HYBRID CLOUD PROVIDER". www.redhat.com. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Ex-SEC Enforcement Chief Takes Leadership Role at Guggenheim Partners - News | ABL Advisor". www.abladvisor.com. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ Protess, Ben (2019-09-03). "Robert Khuzami, Prosecutor in Michael Cohen Case, Joins Guggenheim Partners". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/business/robert-khuzami-guggenheim.html.
- ↑ "About Us". Transparent Value. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Guggenheim Partners to Acquire Claymore Group". Reuters. July 31, 2009. https://www.reuters.com/article/2009/07/31/idUS192538+31-Jul-2009+BW20090731.
- ↑ "Guggenheim Capital unit acquires Wellmark Community Insurance". Retrieved 2015-01-05.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ John Spence (February 16, 2010). "Guggenheim buys Rydex parent". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ Jennifer Booton. "FBL Financial Sells EquiTrust Life Insurance Co. for $440M". Fox Business. Archived from the original on May 25, 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2012.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Guggenheim Becoming Major Annuity Player". Retrieved 2015-01-05.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Guggenheim affiliate buys Sun Life annuity business for $1.35B". Retrieved 2015-01-05.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ Tan, Gillian (2014-03-14). "Guggenheim Snags Lazard Capital Markets Fixed-Income Team". WSJ. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Guggenheim poaches William Blair bankers". Crain's Chicago Business. 2019-07-22. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ Nellie Andreeva. "Guggenheim Partners-Led Group Reaches Agreement To Buy Dick Clark Prods". Deadline.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Prometheus bound". New York Post. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Guggenheim Digital Media Buys Remaining Stake in Backstage, Sonic Bids". Adweek. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ Rohlin, Melissa (February 4, 2014). "Sparks bought by investment group led by Magic Johnson and Mark Walter". Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-sparks-sold-magic-dodgers-20140204,0,3096283.story#axzz2sJrXrCHG.
External links[]
Template:Los Angeles Sparks navbox