Ridgemont Equity Partners, a middle market private equity firm, has appointed Justin Lay as Partner and Ryan Shanahan as Vice President. Lay has joined Ridgemont’s Origination & Capital Markets practice, the firm’s dedicated effort to building relationships with intermediaries, trusted advisors, industry executives in the M&A community, as well as

HIG Capital (HIG) has hired John Woyton to lead its dedicated technology buyouts platform, which combines HIG’s existing technology sector capabilities across multiple investing funds. Woyton has spent over 18 years as a private equity investor in the technology sector. Most recently, he was a Managing Director and Partner at

West End law firm, Seddons, has appointed Ben Gillespie as a Partner in the Corporate team.  Gillespie joins the firm from DLA Piper, where he was a Partner in the London office and before that Head of Corporate for the Middle East based out of Dubai. His appointment is with

Apex Group has appointed Andrea Gallenca as Head of Private Market Sales – Australia, and Prakash Kharel, Head of Real Estate, Asia Pacific. Based in Sydney, Gallenca will oversee the Group’s Private Markets’ sales operations in Australia. Gallenca brings more than 18 years of experience in the private funds industry,

Aries I Acquisition Corporation (Aries) has appointed Andrew Lester to its Board of Directors, and Chris Perry to serve as an adviser to the Board. Lester has over 40 years of experience building and managing businesses. Along with his brother Mitchell, he built a 10-person team at Donaldson, Lufkin &

Akin Gump has appointed Terence Rozier-Byrd as a partner in its investment management practice in New York. Rozier-Byrd comes to Akin Gump from Baker Botts, where he served as partner in charge of its New York office. Rozier-Byrd advises a wide array of institutional investors in connection with their investments

Tolga Kirhan, a seasoned private equity professional with over 20 years of global investment experience, has joined emerging markets private equity firm Da Vinci Capital as a managing partner. Before joining Da Vinci Capital, Kirhan was vice president of corporates and funds at German development finance institution KfW DEG- Deutsche

TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has made five new hires in its Boston and Menlo Park offices.  Kevin Schuler and John Triebsch have rejoined the firm as Vice Presidents in Boston and Menlo Park, respectively while Ritika Chandra and Gregory Majno have joined as Vice Presidents in

NextGen Growth Partners (NGP), a private equity firm that partners with Entrepreneurs-in-Residence and management teams to invest in sustainable, growing companies, has appointed Jim Bland as a partner, with a specific focused on the firm’s new investment and portfolio company efforts. “Jim brings an immediate positive impact to our team