UK-based private equity firm Electra Partners has added Chris Hanna as an investment partner. Hanna, who joined 1 September, joins from Phoenix Equity Partners where his investments included Nationwide Autocentres, NFT, ASCO and Ashtead Technology Rentals. Hanna will work alongside Alex Fortescue and the other Investment Partners in investing Electra

F&C Investments, the London-listed GBP108 billion asset management group, has hired Stuart Hastie as an Associate Director with responsibility for business development in its Edinburgh-headquartered private equity funds team. Hastie’s role includes investor relations, fund raising and new product development. Hastie joins F&C with 15-years experience in the investment and

Ray LaSoya has joined US law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan as a Partner, with immediate effect. LaSoya will be resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office and will serve as the National Chair of Stroock’s Private Equity Practice Group. LaSoya has worked on a variety of complex corporate

Andy Miller (pictured) has joined the Highland Capital Partners as a General Partner. Based in Highland’s Menlo Park office, Miller will work to partner with the most promising mobile and technology companies in the Valley. Miller joins Highland from Apple Inc, where he reported directly to Steve Jobs and was

Louis S Caiola, Jr has joined Dome Equities as a partner responsible for distribution of the firm’s real estate private equity offerings. Previously, Caiola was a Senior Vice President at UBS and a Director at Deutsche Bank where he advised high net worth, family office and institutional clients on investment

TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has appointed Jeffrey A Del Papa as a Senior Vice President in the Services Group.  He will focus on recapitalisations, management-led buyouts and growth capital investments in business services companies. Del Papa joins TA from Thoma Bravo, where he served as a

Octopus has appointed George Whitehead (pictured) as venture partner manager. Whitehead joins from NESTA Investments where he held the position of Business Development Director for their GBP50 million fund and supported a number of programmes targeted at early stage growth businesses. These programmes ranged from investments in company accelerators like Springboard, Seedcamp, Design

International law firm Stephenson Harwood has appointed James Tinworth as a corporate partner to the firm’s funds practice in London. Tinworth joins from Simmons & Simmons LLP in a further boost to the corporate funds practice, following the appointment of Patrick Mousset in Paris from Mayer Brown in July.