Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has bolstered its Restructuring & Turnaround practice in Asia with the appointment of Tod Macri as Senior Advisor, based in Hong Kong. Macri’s appointment augments A&M’s expertise in Restructuring and Insolvency and strengthens the growing senior team in Asia, following the appointments

Allen & Overy has appointed Annette Kurdian and Robert Burt as partners in A&the firm’s leveraged finance practice, based in London.  Both join from Linklaters where they were senior banking and finance partners. Kurdian has a breadth of leverage product knowledge across the capital structure and advises financial institutions, private

James Excell who joined private equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP) in 2016, has been promoted to Partner. Based at the firm’s London office, Excell works alongside Partners Mike Fell and Philip Duquenoy to source investment opportunities in profitable, dynamic SMEs across the UK. Since joining KCP five years ago,

Central Park Group, LLC, an independent investment advisory firm delivering access to premier institutional private equity, hedge fund, real estate and fund-of-funds talent, has appointed Roger Lengyel, formerly a senior investment professional at Fortress Investment Group, as Managing Director, Head of Private Equity Secondaries.  Lengyel will further expand the depth

Centaur Fund Services, a specialist in fund administration and fiduciary services, has appointed Gareth Davies as Head of Client Service, Private Equity, Europe.  Based in Centaur’s London office, Davies will support Centaur’s private equity (PE) clients and define Centaur’s PE strategy and business development plans. This comes on the back

Duraco Specialty Tapes (Duraco) has released a joint statement with its private equity partner and global firm OpenGate Capital announcing the appointment of Ed Byczynski as Chief Executive Officer.  Byczynski has a long tenure of guiding growth in manufacturing businesses and is based in Chicago. Most recently, Byczynski was the

Atlantic Street Capital (ASC), a private equity firm targeting entrepreneurial businesses poised for the next level of growth, has appointed Johnny Conklin as a Partner. In this role, Conklin is responsible for the firm’s deal sourcing team and business development strategy for new platforms and add-on acquisitions. In his role,

Law firm Sidley Austin has appointed Ranah Esmaili as a partner in the firm’s Securities Enforcement and Regulatory practice in Washington DC. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…

SME private equity investments specialist CAPZA has appointed Aurore Gauffre as Head of Sustainability & Impact, and strengthened its investor relations team. Several promotions have also been made in the company’s investment team. A signatory of the UNPRI since 2011, CAPZA is convinced that the implementation of best-in-class ESG practices