Private equity house, YFM Equity Partners (YFM), which has offices in Reading, London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, has made a double promotion with Helen Villiers rising to investment director and Ben Pitt taking on the role of investment manager. Having joined YFM as an investment manager in June 2019 after

Global law firm Paul Hastings has appointed private equity and M&A specialist Tom Cartwright as a partner based in London. Cartwright joins from Morgan Lewis and adds firepower to the firm’s fast-growing London office, which has increased revenue by 41% over the last year on the back of strong demand

Mid-market private equity firm LDC has appointed Alex Bexon as ESG director to continue its support of portfolio management teams as they pursue their ESG ambitions. Bexon joins from Deloitte, having spent 10 years in the company’s ESG Advisory practice, where he helped businesses to develop ESG strategies and understand,

Partners Capital Investment Group has appointed Christoph Günther and Dr Michael Viehs as head of public equities and global head of sustainable investing, respectively. Partners Capital is a global outsourced investment office with $48 billion in client assets under management.   Günther, based in New York, succeeds by Alex Band,

MidOcean Partners (MidOcean), a New York-based alternative asset manager specialising in middle-market private equity and alternative credit investments, has made two senior hires. Marshall Phelps will be joining the firm as a managing director and partner within MidOcean Private Equity focusing on the firm’s Business Services vertical, and Jim Henderson

Broad Sky Partners (Broad Sky), a private equity firm that partners with leading middle market business services and consumer companies, has appointed Amy Margolis as managing director and head of business development. Margolis will focus on new deal origination and add-on acquisition sourcing, as well as oversee Broad Sky’s banking

Gen II Fund Services (Gen II), an independent private capital fund administrator, has appointed Steven Millner as chief executive officer. Since co-founding Gen II in 2009, Millner has served as a managing principal and as a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Millner, along with his co-founders, have been involved

Gallagher has appointed Dan O’Connell to its mergers & acquisition (M&A) team in the North of England. A qualified lawyer, Dan joins from Walker Morris where he was a corporate associate.   Dan has over ten years’ experience in the legal sector and has worked at a number of leading

Funding Circle, a UK-based small business loan platform, has made internal promotions in its Capital Markets division. Dipesh Mehta and Sam Granger will become Co-Heads of Global Capital Markets, taking over from Sachin Patel who has been with Funding Circle for more than eight years.  The Capital Markets team has

Following a recent majority investment from GrowthCurve Capital, Mistplay, a play-and-earn and game discovery platform for mobile games, has appointed seven senior executives. The appointments are: Giordano Contestabile, Chief Product Officer; Luca Fiaschi, Chief Data and AI Officer; Jason Heller, Chief Growth Officer; Malvika Jethmalani, Chief People Officer; Nicholas Kerr,