Inflexion Private Equity has appointed Josh Kaufman as Investment Director, and Henry Arundel and Fabrizia Rizzi as Investment Executives. They start with immediate effect. Kaufman joins as an Investment Director in Inflexion’s Partnership Capital team. Previously Kaufman was a Director at Levine Leichtman Capital Partners where he completed numerous transactions,

YFM Equity Partners (YFM) has appointed Colin Granger as an Investment Director focusing on sourcing and completing new investments throughout the South of England. He will be based in London and brings to YFM his extensive experience across deal transaction. With nearly nine years of industry experience, Granger joins YFM

Miravast LLC, a Delaware based LLC, specialising in life contingent assets, has been launched by former senior members of the AIG life settlements team in 2012 with financial backing.     In 2016, Miravast earned sufficient capital to support its ongoing business needs and executed a buyout of external equity

Infoteria Corporation’s CEO, Yoichiro “Pina” Hirano has joined the board of advisors of Fenox Venture Capital (Fenox).  Hirano founded Infoteria Corporation and took it public in 2007 at Tokyo Stock Exchange. He also recently became the Chairman of the Blockchain Collaborative Consortium (BCCC), Japan’s first blockchain industry organisation. Fenox is a

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has appointed Brian Miner as a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice, resident in the Firm's Washington, DC office.  Miner has significant experience in a wide range of transactional matters, focusing on cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions and divestitures involving

StepStone Group is to add an established team of infrastructure investment specialists who have been advising leading global investment institutions for more than 10 years.  The infrastructure and real assets team that established KPMG’s institutional investment advisory business in 2011 will be joining StepStone. This will increase StepStone’s infrastructure and

The Riverside Company has promoted Patrick Schaich to Principal, Origination. Schaich leads origination efforts for the firm in the DACH region. Schaich joined Riverside in 2013 and works out of the Munich office. Prior to joining Riverside, he was Vice President, Investment Banking at Berenberg Bank. Prior to that, he

Middle market private equity firm Calera Capital has appointed Bob Bianco, former CEO of Menlo Worldwide, as an Operating Partner. Bianco will assist Calera with investments in the transportation and supply chain management space with a particular focus on the third party logistics (“3PL”) sector. Calera intends to commit USD40

BGF (Business Growth Fund) has appointed Alice Avis MBE, formerly Chief Executive and Chair of The Sanctuary Spa, to its board as a Non-Executive Director. Ali Avis ce will bring significant international marketing, e-commerce and executive experience to BGF. During her time at Sanctuary, Avis oversaw a trebling of the

Cooley is enhancing its global private equity group with the appointment of three new partners.  Ron Hopkinson joins in New York from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where he was head of the firm’s private equity group. Eric Schwartzman joins in Palo Alto from Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ Silicon Valley office.