Mercury Capital Advisors, a global placement agent specialising in private investments, has opened a new office in Seattle, Washington. The new office extends the reach of the Mercury iFunds platform, a digital solution offering a range of curated non-correlated investments to the wealth management community, namely RIAs and other intermediaries.

GMB Mezzanine Capital has promoted Seth Jonker to Senior Associate and hired Beth Nechanicky as Controller. Jonker joined GMB as an Associate in 2015. Prior to joining GMB, he was in commercial lending, where he provided debt financing in support of private-equity backed buyouts, M&A transactions, and recapitalisations at Wells

Law firm Goodwin has appointed Douglas Freeman and Victor Chen as partners in the firm’s international Private Equity Practice in Hong Kong. Having worked together for many years, Freeman and Chen have developed a robust Asia-focused practice guiding private equity firms, investment banking firms, venture capital and institutional investors in

JMB Insurance, a risk management services and insurance brokerage, has appointed Ben Kanter as a producer to work with the firm’s rapidly expanding Private Equity and Real Estate groups. In this role, Kanter will be responsible for the development and acquisition of new brokerage clients.   “Ben brings more than

Cowen has added to its Investment Banking team with the appointment of Miguel Roman as Managing Director, Head of Leveraged Capital Markets and Syndicate. In his new role, Roman is responsible for leading the Leveraged Finance Capital Markets and Syndicate function and is based in Cowen’s New York City corporate

Private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) has appointed Ross McInnes as an Operating Adviser to the firm’s funds.  McInnes, a seasoned corporate and finance executive, will advise on fund investment activities throughout Europe.    McInnes, Chairman of the Board of Safran, has held senior leadership positions at some

UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) business has made three new hires in its infrastructure area, supporting the growth of the USD 4 billion platform to meet increasing investor demand. REPM’s global infrastructure platform comprises direct equity and debt investments and is led by Tommaso Albanese,

AMP Capital has opened a new representative office in Dubai and appointed an Institutional Director, Sudhanshu Garg, who will be responsible for introducing AMP Capital’s real assets capabilities to clients across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). AMP Capital CEO Adam Tindall; Boe Pahari, Director, North West Region at AMP Capital;

BlueMountain Capital Management, a private diversified alternative asset management firm with USD22 billion in assets under management, has appointed Brandon Cahill, Sarah Dahan, and Josh Drazen as Partners of the firm, effective 1 January, 2018.  Brandon Cahill joined BlueMountain in 2004. Since 2010 he has been the primary portfolio manager investing in CLO tranches, and also