Akin Gump has expanded its private equity and hedge fund practices in Asia with the relocation of partner Olivia Chung and senior counsel Divya Thakur from London and New York respectively, to the firm’s Singapore office…

CAPZA, a major European private investment platform focused on SMEs, today has appointed Oliver Nell as Flex Equity Partner in Germany.

Stephen Welton, founder CEO of BGF, has been appointed by the company’s Board to the new role of Executive Chairman. 

CEPRES has appointed Lauren Iaslovits, Co-Founder and former Chief Operating Officer of SunGard Investran, a shareholder in CEPRES since the Fall of 2019, has a Special Advisor to the CEPRES’ Board.

Man Global Private Markets (Man GPM), Man Group’s private markets investment business, has appointed Dawn Turner as a member of the firm’s Community Housing Advisory Committee. 

SANNE has appointed San-Marie Greeff as Head of Sanne Group (Luxembourg) . and Christian Hertz as Head of LIS – a SANNE company. 

Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has appointed Joe Greenwell as Associate Director of Business Development.

Private equity firm Ironwood Capital has appointed Patrick Patrell as an analyst. 

Whittard joined the firm as Investment Director from BGF plc in September 2017. Since then, he has been responsible for the AJ Mobility investment in 2018 and the Aptus Utilities transaction in December 2019.

Alpha Terminal, a market data platform for Investment Professionals, has recently appointed Paul Hall as Head of Support at its London office.