MilleniumAssociates Expand International Reach

Stephen Harris

16 March 2005

Swiss-based international wealth and asset management merger & acquisition firm MilleniumAssociates, has announced a strategic collaboration agreement with South Africa-based Lawrence Miller. Mr Miller is the founder and chairman of boutique group Lawfin International, which has offices in Cape Town and London. The group specialises in cross-border loans, and in M&A advice for South African companies abroad and for foreign companies in South Africa. Ray Soudah, founder of MilleniumAssociates said in a statement, “I am delighted to collaborate with Lawrence Miller who is becoming a senior advisor to our growing firm. He is a respected and well-connected person inside as well as outside South Africa and he will considerably strengthen and extend the global reach of our company into a geographic region that will clearly see much future interest and activity.” Mr Miller commented that: “The current waive of realignment and consolidation in the South African financial services sector creates a clear opportunity for an independent and sophisticated M&A advisory firm such as MilleniumAssociates to offer its expertise to the local industry players”.