Private equity attorney Nicola Di Giovanni has joined Skadden as a partner in the firm’s Paris office. Di Giovanni’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border private equity. Di Giovanni advises investment funds, family offices and industrial companies in particular on acquisitions, buy-outs and joint ventures.  Di Giovanni cola joins from

Francisco Partners (FP) has hired Ashley Evans as a Partner of the firm. At FP, Ashley will focus primarily on application software investments across a range of end-markets. Evans most recently served as a Managing Director at Carlyle Group, where she was a member of its technology investing team. Evans

Snowball has appointed Sean Farrell as its new Investment Director. Farrell has over 20 years’ experience in private and public markets investing and portfolio composition, both through direct investing and the selection of fund managers. 

HIG Capital has appointed Kim Leinwand Erle as managing director and global head of ESG, a newly created role that reflects the global alternative asset manager’s ongoing commitment to the integration of environmental, social and governance best practices across the firm. Erle joins HIG from NY Green Bank, a specialty

Financial Services Capital (FSC), a private equity investor dedicated to the European financial services sector, has appointed Kirstyn Lowry-Corry, a finance specialist with more than 10 years’ experience, as financial director.  Lowry-Corry, who will work with Chief Operating Officer Chris Doukaki, joins from ScaleUp Capital, where she was responsible for

Maples and Calder (Ireland) LLP, the Maples Group’s law firm in Ireland, has relocated Adam Donoghue, co-head of the Irish Funds & Investment Management Group (FIMG), from its London office to Dublin. Donoghue has spent many of his 13 years with the firm developing the international footprint of the firm’s

Churchill Asset Management, an investment-specialist affiliate of Nuveen providing customised financing solutions to private equity firms and their portfolio companies, has appointed Nick Lawler as Managing Director and Head of Secondaries.  Lawler, who will be responsible for leading the firm’s new secondaries strategy and investing across the secondaries landscape, is

Advent International (Advent) has appointed Susan Gentile as chief financial officer (CFO) and Managing Director, effective 1 October, 2022. Gentile succeeds Eileen Sivolella, who has served in the role since 2009 and will assume the role of strategic advisor on an interim basis to provide continuity. Gentile brings nearly two