Foresight Group (Foresight), an infrastructure and specialist regional private equity investment manager, has strengthened its North West team with the appointment of Fiona Hatch as senior investment manager. Having trained at business advisory firm Deloitte, Hatch spent seven years at Manchester Airports Group (MAG), where she helped establish an in-house

Blackford Capital has appointed operating partner Paul I Doyle has to the position of managing partner at the firm effective 18 April, 2022. Martin Stein will continue to lead the firm as founder and managing director. Blackford is a private equity firm that acquires and builds founder and family-owned companies

Seraphim Space Manager (Seraphim Space), the manager of Seraphim Space Investment Trust, a listed Space Tech Fund, has adde Patrick McCall, former Senior Partner of Virgin Group, to its investment team. McCall joins Seraphim as a Venture Partner following a long and distinguished career in the space, communication and transport

Squire Patton Boggs has continued the expansion of its global private equity practice in Europe with the addition of two new partners in France. Private equity lawyer Anthony Guillaume has been appointed a Corporate partner and acquisition leverage finance lawyer Benjamin Marché has been appointed partner in the Financial Services

QED Investors, a global venture capital firm focused on investing in disruptive financial services companies, has appointed Victoria Zuo as a principal based in San Francisco where she will have a focus on investments in early stage fintech and commerce businesses.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher has appointed Caleb Vesey as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office, where he is part of Willkie’s Private Equity Practice Group. Vesey’s arrival follows the addition of private equity partners Patrick Sandor, Ray LaSoya and Joe Kaczorowski, who joined Willkie in California this year.

Daniel F Zimmerman has joined Kramer Levin’s New York office as a partner in the Corporate department. Zimmerman, who joins the firm from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, advises companies, private equity funds and other investors on securities regulation matters, mergers and acquisitions, tender and exchange offers, securities offerings,

Music industry veteran Vincent Searcy has joined Sherrese Clarke Soares’ global alternative asset management company HarbourView Equity Partners (HarbourView) as a strategic advisor. Searcy will provide strategic advice and recommendations regarding acquisitions of or any other investment in music IP and related rights. Searcy’s diligence and respected connections greatly contribute

Mayfair Equity Partners (Mayfair), a dedicated technology and consumer investor, has appointed two new Partners – Paul Reading, from Managing Director, and Tushar Pabari, Chief Financial Officer who will also retain this role. Mayfair is also announcing five additional promotions and four new appointments, including a Chief Talent Officer.  

PE mammoth, Apollo, has hired Christine Moy, a former JPMorgan global head of Metaverse, to lead the firm’s digital assets strategy. Apollo plans to make investments between $50 million and $250 million in blockchain and Web3. Moy will lead the strategy and look to apply blockchain technologies to the business.