Pan-European private equity firm IK Investment Partners has appointed Johan Van de Steen as operating partner as of April 2017. Van de Steen will head IK’s strategy, operations and business control (SOBC) team. Van de Steen, 51, has substantial hands-on industrial experience, acquired over more than two decades in
A record high of 251 fundraising and marketing professionals were hired by alternative asset management firms in the first quarter of 2017, according to data from the Context Jensen Partners’ Q1 2017 newsletter. Context Jensen Partners (CJP) is a global corporate advisory and executive search firm that recruits capital raising
Quantexa, a big data and analytics company backed by HSBC and Albion Ventures, has opened a new office in Brussels. Further offices in Sydney and New York are due to open within the next 12 months. Following on from last month's USD3.3 million fund raising, Quantexa's expansion reflects a
Global Loan Agency Services, the UK parent of the global GLAS companies, has appointed two veteran trust professionals to its global trust team. Martin Reed and Adam Berman, long-time specialists in corporate trust administration and corporate financial services, will help lead GLAS globally as vice-presidents of corporate trust and agency
Ipreo, a provider of workflow solutions and market intelligence to financial services and corporate professionals, has hired Stephen Grady as managing director, head of market structure and strategy. Grady comes to Ipreo with more than 20 years of industry experience, most recently at Legal & General Investment Management, where
Campbell Lutyens, a global alternative asset advisory firm focused on fund placement and secondary transactions, has added Wayne Kozun to its advisory board. Kozun was until recently a senior vice president at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board where his various responsibilities included management of OTPP’s global public equities portfolio, the
Direct lender Beechbrook Capital, which backs small and medium-sized businesses in the UK with a turnover of between GBP10 million and GBP100 million and EBITDA of more than GBP1 million, has opened its first regional office in Manchester. The office, in Hardman Square, Spinningfields, will support the UK SME Credit
Pan-European private equity firm Agilitas has appointed Debojit Mukherjee as chief operating officer (COO) with immediate effect. Debojit joins Agilitas after seven years at Change Capital Partners, where he was chief financial officer and prior to that head of operations. Earlier career positions have included director of operations and
Neuberger Berman has appointed Jonathan Bailey as head of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. Bailey is based in New York and reports to Joseph Amato, president, Neuberger Berman. In this role, Bailey will work with the firm’s investment teams and research departments to further incorporate ESG principles into
Akin Gump has appointed Michael Joyce as a partner in its global energy and transactions practice in Singapore. Joyce comes to Akin Gump from Norton Rose Fulbright, where he was head of the oil and gas group for Australia. He has relocated from Sydney, Australia, back to Singapore where
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