JC Flowers secures broker dealer licence

Broker dealer licence will allow founder Flowers and other executives at the firm to perform advisory work for clients on an 'ad-hoc' basis

J. Christopher Flowers
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Private equity firm JC Flowers & Co is eyeing opportunities in mergers and acquisitions advisory work, securing US regulatory approval that allows the company to work on client deals.

The firm, founded by former Goldman Sachs M&A banker J Christopher Flowers in 1998, has registered an entity as a broker dealer with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

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