Dan Matthews has been appointed as an executive director of GE Capital’s European leveraged finance unit. Matthews will join the UK based leveraged finance origination team and will report into Paul Scott, managing director and head of sponsor coverage. Based in London, Matthews will be responsible for helping to grow

Neil Price has been appointed to head up the North West team at Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets acquisition finance, which provides leveraged finance to support private equity-backed transactions.  Price has a decade of experience at Lloyds Banking Group and joins from the acquisition finance team in London. During 2009, he

Law firm Kaye Scholer has appointed Andrew B. Harris, a private equity, M&A and corporate finance lawyer, as managing partner of its London office. Harris joins Kaye Scholer from DLA Piper, where he was a senior equity partner and served as head of its private equity practice.   Harris acts

Equity Risk Partners, an insurance brokerage and consulting firm focused on the private equity industry, has appointed William Monat as managing director – transactional products, effective immediately. Monat will be responsible for establishing the firm’s transactional products practice group and building its capabilities for developing and marketing products including representations

Hudson Securities has expanded its international capabilities to complement and support the growth of its cross-border investment banking group. Frank J. Drazka, who joined Hudson Securities last month as head of investment banking, leads the firm’s six-member cross-border investment banking group, which focuses on raising capital in the US market

Law firm Dechert has hired Thomas P. Vartanian, David L. Ansell and Robert H. Ledig as partners in the Washington, D.C. office. All three were previously partners at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, where Vartanian served as chair of the financial institutions transaction group.    Vartanian, Ansell, and Ledig

A large group of finance and corporate attorneys from Nixon Peabody has joined Pillsbury’s New York office. Led by Mats Carlston, previously head of global finance at Nixon Peabody, who will now head Pillsbury’s leveraged finance team, the group enhances Pillsbury’s capabilities in the areas of leveraged finance, corporate trust,

Arthur J. Higgins, former chairman of the board of management of Bayer HealthCare, has joined The Blackstone Group’s dedicated healthcare group, Blackstone Healthcare Partners.  Higgins will join healthcare veterans Lodewijk de Vink and Doug Rogers in providing industry knowledge and expertise to private equity transactions. Blackstone Healthcare Partners is an