EQUI, a cryptocurrency-powered investment platform that opens up venture capital to a wider audience and provides high-tech innovators and entrepreneurs a new route to investment, has added investor Duncan MacInnes to its Advisory Board. MacInnes has extensive business and investment experience having founded his first business in his teens, exiting

Invesco is expanding its Invesco Private Capital business with the appointment of Carl Stanton as a Managing Partner and Head of Private Equity.  In this newly created role, Stanton will broaden the scope of the firm’s existing private equity focus to include opportunistic buyouts and special situations. As part of the

Old Mutual Alternative Investments (OMAI), Africa’s largest private alternative investment manager, has appointed Mr Zomunoda (Zom) Chizura as Head of the Impact Funds team. The Impact Funds team manages funds targeted specifically for affordable housing, access to quality education and promoting SMME businesses.   Between the years 2014 to 2017,

ORIX Mezzanine & Private Equity (OMPE), a business unit of Dallas-based ORIX USA, has appointed Zoltan Berty as a Managing Director. Bringing over 25 years of transactional experience across multiple industries and diversified markets, Berty will be primarily responsible for business development and investment activities in the Western United States.

International law firm Proskauer has appointed transactional lawyers Don Melamed and Albert W Stemp as partners in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Their arrival follows a number of high-profile additions to the Firm’s private investment fund and real estate offerings globally, including private equity real estate partners Joanne Owen and

Global law firm Reed Smith has appointed Michael N Peterson as a partner in the firm’s Global Corporate Group in Philadelphia. Formerly head of Morgan Lewis’ Philadelphia Corporate Business & Transactions practice, Peterson has a thriving private equity practice and more than 20 years of experience representing public and private

Orrick has appointed Paul Doris as a partner in London. Doris brings a strong focus on M&A and private equity, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He is the 10th partner addition to Orrick’s European M&A and Private Equity team and the seventh partner to join the firm’s London

Alternative investment firm Context Capital Partners has appointed Arun Gowda as a Managing Director and Head of Business Development. In the new role, Gowda will focus on developing and managing new institutional and family office relationships, and drive Context Capital Partners’ business development process.   “Arun is a strong addition