Appomattox Advisory, a New York based Outsourced Chief Investment Officer firm, has appointed Caroline Lovelace as Chief Operating Officer (COO). As well as serving as COO with responsibility for implementing the firm’s management policies and overseeing operations,  Lovelace joins Appomattox’s investment committee.

Lateral Investment Management , a private equity firm focused on growth investments in owner-operated middle market businesses in North America, has appointed Matthew Knight as Senior Associate and Ashley Ebeck and Jack Lothrop as Associates. 

Apex Group has appointed Anne Storie, as Country Head, Cayman Islands, effective 1 December, 2022. Based in Grand Cayman, Storie will report to Georges Archibald, chief innovation officer and managing director, Americas.

Limerston Capital, a UK mid-market private equity investor, has made two promotions and a new hire. Mirza Delibegovic has been promoted to Partner and Harriet Smith to Investment Principal, while Archie MacCormack has been hired as Investment Analyst.

Capital Dynamics, an independent global private asset management firm, has appointed Andrea Mazzaferro as head of primaries, Europe. Mazzaferro is taking over the position from Mark Drugan, who is retiring from the firm after 34 years of service. In his new role, Mazzaferro will lead European investments in mid-market funds

Argand Partners, a New York- and San Francisco Bay Area-based industrials private equity firm, has added two new hires to its investment team, with the appointments of Ford Harrington as vice president and Peter Derby as Associate.    

Apollo Global Management has appointed Connecticut state treasurer Shawn Wooden as a partner and its new chief public pension strategist to help expand the private equity firm’s business with retirement systems, according to a report by Financial News. The report cites an Apollo spokesperson as confirming that Wooden will assume

Cresset Partners has appointed Shari Young Lewis as managing director, private funds group. She will focus on private equity funds and co-investments across buyout, platform buy-and-build, and other control-oriented strategies.

International investment firm Hambro Perks has appointed Sam Marchant as Investment Associate. Marchant will focus on identifying and growing Hambro Perks’ portfolio of companies by focusing on early stage and primary investments for the HP Leaders Fund, the firm’s flagship £100 million venture fund, and the Hambro Perks Growth EIS.

Global law firm Dechert has announced that from 1 July, 2023, partners David W Forti and Mark Thierfelder will become co-chairs of the business, and that partners Sabina Comis and Vincent H Cohen, Jr will become the firm’s first global managing partners.