Seward & Kissel has promoted Lancelot (Lance) King, a member of the firm’s Investment Management Group in Washington DC, from associate to counsel. The promotion is effective 1 April, 2019. King’s practice focuses on a broad range of regulatory, compliance, and transactional matters affecting investment companies and registered investment advisers. His experience includes

Specialist private equity investor Hg has opened a new US office in New York.  Hg is one of the the most active European-based investors in software and services, having led over 100 investments in the sector in the last 25 years. On an aggregated basis, Hg’s portfolio represents the third

Arma Partners, an independent corporate finance advisory firm focused exclusively on the global Communications, Media & Technology sector, has appointed Broor Spahr van der Hoek as Partner and Co-Head of its Private & Growth Capital team.  Broor will be based in Arma’s London office and will further enhance the firm’s

Argand Partners, a New York and San Francisco Bay Area-based middle market buyout firm, has promoted Joyce Schnoedl to Partner, Dino Sawaya to Principal, and Janel Maki to Operations Manager.  “Joyce provides important leadership across our firm in sourcing and executing complex deals. Her ability to identify and generate opportunities

Drawbridge Partners, a cybersecurity consulting firm specialising in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers, has appointed Viktor Tadijanovic as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).  In this role, Tadijanovic will oversee the company’s overall technology strategy and lead the engineering, product and customer engagement teams.   With deep expertise

Private equity fund administrator Gen II Fund Services (Gen II) has appointed Ian Cameron as its Chief Operating Officer (COO). Cameron will focus on strategic and operational responsibilities at Gen II and will report to the Managing Principals, Norman Leben and Steven Millner. Since 2015, Cameron was Chief Financial and

Akin Gump has appointed Allen Shyu as a partner in the firm’s Beijing office. Shyu comes to Akin Gump from Stephenson Harwood, where he was the lead partner in the Beijing office. Shyu’s practice focuses on advising mid-sized and large-scale public companies on equity capital markets and corporate M&A transactions,

HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has opened a new office in Dublin, Ireland. The new Dublin office expands the firm’s global footprint to ten locations, adding to its presence in Beijing, Bogota, Boston, Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Toronto. Craig MacDonald, Managing Director, HarbourVest

Private equity firm the Riverside Company has promoted Karsten Langer to Managing Partner for the Riverside Europe Fund (REF). Langer will lead the management of 30 professionals across Europe as Riverside continues to look for internationally growing entrepreneurial companies.   Langer will succeed Riverside Managing Partner Tony Cabral. An integral