Actis, a UK-based private investment firm focused on sustainable infrastructure, has appointed Neda Vakilian as head of its Investor Solutions Group (ISG), which was previously known as the Investor Development Group. Vakilian is based in London and will be responsible for leading Actis’ capital raising initiatives and strategic investor programs.

HCI Equity Partners, a lower middle market private equity firm,.has added Bob Currier to the HCI Executive Partner group to advise on human capital management, including talent acquisition, organisational design, leadership development and succession throughout the entire HCI portfolio. 

Brian Tierney, global head of portfolio operations and asset management at Blackstone, is leaving the firm to take up the role of president and chief executive officer at electricity supply, distribution and generation company FirstEnergy Corp. Tierney, who will join FirstEnergy on 1 June, is the company’s first permanent CEO

General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, has appointed Mark Stevenson as a Senior Advisor. In his new role, Stevenson will provide strategic counsel and support to the firm’s investment teams and portfolio companies in the life sciences sector. Stevenson brings more than three decades of experience and significant leadership

Dechert LLP has appointed private equity fund lawyer Sam Kay as a partner in the firm’s financial services and investment management practice in London. With over 25 years of experience advising on investment funds, Kay specialises in fund formation work for a wide range of private funds and asset management

Multinational law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has added to its private equity practice in London with the appointment of leveraged finance specialist Ed Aldred as a partner. Aldred joins from Linklaters where he spent over 20 years – the past five as co-head of the firm’s financial sponsor

Citigroup Inc has appointed Robin Rousseau and Barry Weir as co-heads of the company’s mergers and acquisitions business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to a report by Bloomberg, with the pair replacing Alison Harding-Jones who is leaving the business. The report cites an internal memo as revealing

Angeles Equity Partners, a specialist lower middle-market private equity investment firm focused on underperforming industrial businesses, has appointed Adam Lerner as an operating partner at Angeles Operations Group.