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Redpoint Energy and Baringa Partners to merge
 
 Redpoint Energy and
Baringa Partners are
planning to merge to
create an organisation
which, they say, will
have an unparalleled
depth of expertise in
the European energy
space.
  
   The merger, which is
likely to happen in
spring 2012, will
establish Baringa’s
Energy Advisory Services
(EAS) practice as a
combination of the
analytical, policy and
energy market capability
of Redpoint with the
advisory capability of
Baringa. The current
Redpoint directors will
join Baringa partner
 
 Jayesh Parmar to form
the practice leadership
team. EAS will sit
alongside Baringa’s
established
market-leading
transformation
capability across the
energy value chain, and
will position Baringa as
one of Europe’s largest
teams of dedicated
energy consultants.
  
   Explaining the
decision to merge, Phil
Grant, director at
Redpoint, said:
“Redpoint Energy and
Baringa Partners share a
common set of internal
and external values,
have worked closely
together since
 
  
   
 
 
 
 
 said: “The energy
landscape in Europe is
changing dramatically,
with policy responses to
environmental and
security of supply
concerns, evolving
supply and demand side
technologies, and
dramatically changing
global market dynamics.
Our clear shared vision
is to be the advisor of
choice in helping our
clients shape, define
and deliver change in
European energy
markets.”
  
   He continued: “The
combined organisation
will provide the market
with an unparalleled
advisory capability
 
 offering high quality
analysis and advice
alongside transformation
and performance
improvement services.
And it will enable
clients to make the most
of the opportunities
while overcoming the
challenges that the new
landscape presents.”
  
   The merger will also
support the growth plans
of Redpoint and Baringa,
including expansion into
new regions as well as
enabling more ambitious
investment in people,
services and
intellectual capital.
 
 Redpoint’s foundation in
2004, and already have
an element of
cross-ownership.”
  
   He continued: “Our
intention is to build on
the strong platform of
growth both
organisations have
experienced over recent
years and service our
clients with an
end-to-end policy,
regulation, strategy and
delivery capability.”
  
   Baringa managing
partner Mohamed Mansour
 
 
Arthur D. Little returns to global partnership after MBO
 
 Arthur D. Little
successfully completed
its management buy-out
(MBO) with Altran
Technologies on 30
December, 2011. In its
125th anniversary year,
the world’s first
management consulting
firm has once again
become a global private
partnership, with 100%
of the ownership of the
company now held by its
partners. The MBO deal
involves all of its
offices worldwide and
includes the prestigious
Arthur D. Little brand.
  
   Since Altran’s
 
 November announcement
that it had entered into
an exclusive negotiation
of an MBO-led sale of
Arthur D. Little to its
partners, the firm has
been actively and
successfully preparing
its new independent
global private
partnership. The
financial commitment
required from the
partners has been
oversubscribed and
Altran Technologies will
be providing vendor
financing to support the
company’s development in
the coming months and
years.
 
  
   
 
 the firm’s destiny and
governance back in the
hands of the partners;
2) Accelerating growth
by attracting key
talents or aggregating
smaller firms in
targeted industries,
functions and
countries,” he
declared.
  
   “The positioning of
Arthur D. Little will be
centred on its
historical core of
innovation, offering its
unparalleled and unique
value proposition of
linking strategy,
innovation, and
 
 technology. In the
current global economy,
this value proposition
is the only way
companies and countries
can improve their
sustained
competitiveness. This is
true in Europe and the
USA where new growth
platforms are
desperately needed, as
well as in fast growing
economies, such as BRIC
countries, that seek to
catch-up and move into
innovative, added-value
products and services.”
 
   
   The firm will be led
by a newly elected
global CEO, Ignacio
Garcia Alves, who headed
the MBO team that
successfully managed the
acquisition of Arthur D.
Little by its partners.
  
   “I am honoured by the
trust and confidence of
the partners and am very
excited by the prospect
of leading this firm
into the next stage of
its rich history. Our
objective with the MBO
is twofold: 1) Taking
 
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