Castleforge, a vertically integrated, operationally focused private equity real estate manager targeting the UK and select European cities, has promoted Adam MacLeod and Julian Feldman to partner, effective immediately. MacLeod joined Castleforge in 2015 as the firm’s Head of Investment Strategy and Research, before being promoted to Managing Director in

Permira has appointed Simon Segars, former CEO of Arm, as a senior adviser to its technology team.

Franklin Templeton has appointed John Ivanac as Senior Vice President and Consultant Adviser, US Institutional Services, focused on alternative investment capabilities in the US.

Acton Capital is expanding its team in Europe and its presence in North America with the addition of Sophie Ahrens-Gruber to the firm’s investment team in Munich and the promotion of Hannes Blum – portfolio entrepreneur, former VP Amazon, and CEO of AbeBooks – to partner to head the firm’s investments

Luminate Capital has named Lucy Li as managing director, Portfolio Finance, based in San Francisco. Prior to Luminate, Li worked in finance and business planning at Meta (formerly Facebook Inc). Her previous experience also includes investment banking at JPMorgan and private equity investing at Genstar Capital.  Li graduated from the

Richard Haight has joined Nuveen Natural Capital as Head of Global Timberland Transactions. In his new role, Haight will be a member of the leadership team and will focus on pipeline development, transactions (both acquisitions and dispositions), and capital deployment.   Most recently, Haight served as Head of TTG Forestry

Impax, an AIM-listed sustainable economy investor has appointed Annette Wilson as non-executive director, effective 28 June, 2022. Wilson, who will sit on the Company’s Audit & Risk and Remuneration Committees, has spent over twenty years in the private equity and venture capital sector. She is a former Partner and COO

Wieger Fokke is to join ILX Management as investment manager financial institutions and corporate, effective 1 August, 2022. Fokke will be responsible for the investments across the Financial Institutions and Corporate sector alongside ILX’ global MDB and DFI partners. He joins ILX from the Dutch Development Bank FMO where he

Impax Asset Management (Impax), the specialist asset manager investing in the transition to a more sustainable economy, has appointed Charles (Charlie) French as deputy chief investment officer, Listed Equities.

Global law firm Goodwin has appointed Daniel Dusek as a partner in the firm’s global Private Equity practice in Hong Kong. Dusek has over 20 years of experience advising on complex, cross-border corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, disposals, auctions, private equity and leveraged buyouts, take-privates, spin-offs and joint ventures,