Deutsche Bank AG is hiring top financial services dealmakers from Perella Weinberg Partners and Credit Suisse Group AG as it seeks to beef up its senior ranks in Europe. Marie-Soazic Geffroy will join Deutsche Bank as global co-head of its financial institutions group, based in Paris, according to an internal memo seen by Bloomberg. She joins from Perella, where she was a partner and head of FIG for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She previously worked at Morgan Stanley for over 20...

Private equity firms hunting for acquisitions with their $1.5 trillion of unspent capital are struggling to seal deals as they hit roadblocks from heady price demands to difficult financing markets. Buyout funds have seen around $30 billion of potential deals hit trouble in recent weeks. Medtronic Plc is looking increasingly likely to spin off of its patient-monitoring and respiratory-intervention operations, after talks with Carlyle Group Inc. slowed and strategic bidders’ interest cooled,...

Blackstone Inc. senior managing director Nadim El Gabbani has left the alternative-asset manager. The London-based dealmaker, who sat within the firm’s private equity group, focused on financial services, business services and technology deals in both New York and London dating back to 2008. He was involved in Blackstone’s investments in firms including BankUnited Inc., Michaels Stores, TeamHealth, Sithe Global Power and Service King, according to his LinkedIn profile. “Nadim’s wealth of...

Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here. Credit Suisse Group AG’s investment banking and trading operations are a key sticking point in the government-brokered talks for rival UBS Group AG to take over the troubled lender, according to people with knowledge of the matter. UBS is worried about the balance sheet risk associated with the investment bank, which has suffered a string of losses and scandals in recent years, the people said,...

Sign up for our Middle East newsletter and follow us @middleeast for news on the region. Network International Holdings Plc, the Middle Eastern credit card processing firm, is in advanced talks to acquire Mashreqbank PSC’s payments unit, people familiar with the matter said. London-listed Network International is thrashing out final terms of an agreement with Mashreq after other suitors dropped out of the bidding, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing confidential...