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Hawksford strengthens corporate capabilities with associate director appointment

Hawksford has appointed Moira Ashby as an associate director. Ashby (pictured) will be part of the team responsible for defining, building and growing Hawksford’s corporate business. A tax specialist, she has had extensive exposure to a large variety of corporate clients including trading businesses, banks and life assurers. Over the

Fried Frank

Fried Frank adds asset management regulatory attorney Gregg Beechey in London

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has appointed Gregg Beechey (pictured) as a partner in the firm’s Asset Management Practice in London. Beechey is a regulatory attorney who focuses on alternative investment funds and the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). He counsels a range of financial sector clients

LIFE New York appoints new chairman

LIFE, the global diaspora organisation of Lebanese finance executives, has appointed Wissam Kairouz as the new chairman of its New York Committee.  Kairouz (pictured) is a managing director at Morgan Stanley's Leveraged & Acquisition Finance Group in New York, where he oversees the group's industry practices in Healthcare, Media and

KKR appoints Dominique Lafont as Senior Advisor

KKR has appointed Dominique Lafont (pictured), former President and Chief Executive Officer of Bolloré Africa Logistics, as a Senior Advisor to the firm, effective immediately. Johannes Huth, Head of KKR Europe, Middle East and Africa, says: “Over the last few years, we have been building our Africa team which is

Tadataka Yamada re-joins Frazier Healthcare

Frazier Healthcare, a provider of growth capital to healthcare companies, announces that Tadataka Yamada has re-joined Frazier Healthcare, a provider of growth capital to healthcare companies. He will serve as a Venture Partner on the Life Sciences team, focusing on creating companies as well as providing strategic guidance to existing

Blackstone names Liping Zhang as Chairman for Greater China

Blackstone has named Liping Zhang as a Senior Managing Director and its Chairman for Greater China.   Based in Hong Kong, Zhang (pictured) will advise and provide guidance to firm management and its regional business units as the firm continues to expand its presence in the region. Zhang has more

Ratan Tata joins Jungle Ventures as Special Advisor

Jungle Ventures has appointed Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of the Indian Conglomerate, Tata Sons, as a Special Advisor. Founded by Anurag Srivastava and Amit Anand, Jungle Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund, with a firm focus on helping build innovative technology led companies out of the Asia-Pacific. Jungle

Campbell Lutyens appoints new deputy general counsel

Campbell Lutyens has appointed Mateja Maher as deputy general counsel. Maher joins the firm from Kirkland & Ellis’ London practice where he was a Partner. Campbell Lutyens has seen a sustained period of growth across its private equity, infrastructure and private debt practices and has had a very successful year

Goodwin Procter expands PE group

Law firm Goodwin Procter has appointed James Barrett as partner and Edward Amer has joined as counsel. Both will be part of the firm’s Private Equity Group and will be based in its Boston office. Barrett and Amer both come to Goodwin from Locke Lord.   Barrett represents private equity

Centrus Advisors expands Dublin team with appointment of new director

Centrus Advisors, a treasury, corporate and project finance advisory firm, has appointed Fiona O’Driscoll as Director in the firm’s Dublin Office. O’Driscoll has over 11 years’ experience in capital markets and project finance spanning the infrastructure, utilities and renewable energy sectors. Ms O’Driscoll has recently completed the Lisbon MBA International

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