Boutique investment bank Jefferies won the mandate to advise a consortium including a British billionaire and an ex-Jefferies executive on its $925m (€679m) acquisition of Aston Martin, the car immortalized by the James Bond 007 movies.

UK automotive executive David Richards joined with John Sinders, ex-head of Jefferies transportation, oil services and infrastructure group, and two Kuwaiti firms, Investment Dar and Adeem Investment, to buy Aston Martin.