Private client, corporate services and fund administration business Oak Group (Oak) has appointed James Tracey as managing director of its funds business in Guernsey, subject to regulatory approval. Tracey, who has joined Oak from JTC Group in Guernsey where he has been managing director since 2018, is heading up Oak

European special situations investor North Wall Capital has appointed Jonas Frantz as Head of the Investor Partnerships group. Frantz will be responsible for building and maintaining long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with the firm’s investor base. His responsibilities will include capital raising, marketing and business development, in addition to the development

Mid-market private equity firm LDC has expanded its portfolio team with two senior appointments. LDC’s portfolio team works alongside the management teams of its portfolio businesses. It provides them with advice and expertise to support them to grow their businesses, navigate challenges and unlock new opportunities.   Tracy Bownes joins

Private investment firm Angeles Equity Partners (Angeles) has added two vice presidents – Te’Rhon O’Neal and Jamie Brown – to its investment team. Angeles is a specialist lower middle-market private equity investment firm with a consistent approach to transforming underperforming industrial businesses. Both O’Neal and Brown will be responsible for

FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investor, has appointed Kapil Venkatachalam as a partner. Venkatachalam will focus on investments in innovative, high-growth businesses in B2B software and technology-enabled services, further strengthening the firm’s deep expertise and successful track record in this sector over the last 24 years. The news comes

Travers Smith has promoted 11 lawyers to its partnership, with effect from 1 July 2022. This is the largest promotion round to date. The new partners whose practices focus on private equity. Victoria Bramall specialises in international private equity and M&A transactions. Her clients include alternative asset managers, senior management

Palatine has grown both its Buyout and Impact teams following an active first quarter of the year. Rupert Brown has been promoted to senior investment director and moves across to the Impact team, whilst the Buyout team has welcomed new recruit Carly Sinicrope as investment manager. Both will be based

Monroe Capital has appointed Gila Cohen as Managing Director, Head of Global Institutional Partnerships based in the firm’s New York office. She will be responsible for new initiatives to expand Monroe’s global footprint, among institutional investors, focusing on the high growth Opportunistic and Real Estate private credit areas of the

BGF has added Daria Polunina to its team in London as a portfolio manager. Polunina joins BGF from Saphir Capital Partners, where she spent almost ten years as Director of the firm’s London office. Polunina also brings experience of managing and sitting on boards of UK-based portfolio companies as well

Kirkland & Ellis has appointed Nicole Runyan, William Tuttle, Brad Green, Erin Lett, David Marcinkus and Lisa Goldstein as partners in the firm’s Investment Funds Group. The team focuses on advising registered funds and business development companies (BDCs) — as well as their investment advisers and independent board members —