Bedell Cristin has appointed Lee Osborne as a Senior Associate in its Guernsey office. Osborne (pictured), advises on a broad range of corporate, commercial and banking matters including investment funds and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross border transactions and corporate re-structuring.     A member of the

Prestige has appointed Dr Phil Hobbs as a specialist finance arranger at Privilege Finance, a provider integrated specialist consulting and financial solutions for small businesses within the agricultural, farming and food related sectors across the UK. Hobbs will be focusing on optimising new and under-performing digesters in the agricultural and

Schroders has appointed Reto Schwager as Chief Executive Officer of Schroder Adveq. Schwager joins from the financial services group Orix Corporation where he was Global Head of Private Equity at Robeco and member of the executive committee of Robeco SAM. Prior to that Schwager was a partner and member of

Macquarie Capital, the corporate advisory, capital markets and principal investment arm of Macquarie Group, has appointed Matthew Taylor as Head of Business Services, and Henry Elphick as a Senior Consultant to its European business. Taylor will report to Jacques Callaghan, a Senior Managing Director within Macquarie Capital, and Hugh Briggs,

Boutique investment bank Invenio Corporate Finance has appointed Chartered Accountant and M&A specialist Matteo Turi as a Partner. Turi has worked in a variety of industries, including renewable energy, utilities, retail banking, telecoms and water services, and has considerable UK and overseas experience.   Turi is an experienced Finance Director

Frazier Healthcare Partners has appointed Mark Barrett as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) in the firm’s Life Sciences team. Most recently, Barrett served as Global Head of Strategy & Business Development at Sanofi Genzyme and was a member of the company’s executive leadership team responsible for managing Sanofi Genzyme’s global rare diseases,

McKesson Ventures, the venture capital arm of McKesson Corporation, has appointed Carrie Hurwitz Williams as Principal, and Irem Mertol as Director. Williams will play a key role in promoting McKesson Ventures as a strategic investment partner for innovative companies focused on retail transformation, consumerism and channel development. Mertol will be

Bruce MacKenzie will be joining UBS as a Managing Director in EMEA LCM. MacKenzie is a high yield capital markets professional who was previously European Head of Leveraged Capital Markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, and prior to that spent 10 years at Deutsche Bank. MacKenzie is

Sapphire Ventures, a venture capital firm with USD2.4 billion under management, has hired Stefanie Gordish as vice president of marketing. Gordish will lead the firm’s marketing strategy, including brand, communications, events, messaging and thought leadership.   Gordish brings extensive marketing communications experience to Sapphire. Most recently, she led communications at