Willkie Farr & Gallagher has appointed Bryan Kelly as a partner in the firm’s Tax Department, based in Los Angeles. Kelly was previously a partner and Office Managing Director at Withers in Los Angeles. Today’s announcement brings the total number of partners in Willkie’s Los Angeles office to 17.   

London-based investment firm, Twenty20 Capital, has appointed a new manager to strengthen its growing team. Chris Wolfe-Elder joins Twenty20 Capital as Investment Manager to drive forward advisory services for the team. He joins from Kroll, where he was part of the expert services offering, specialising in disputes and advisory services.

IQ-EQ has appointed Rebecca Brown as its new Head of Legal, UK, Ireland & Crown Dependencies to provide legal advice as the regional sector continues to grow. Brown qualified as a UK solicitor in 2012 and has a wide range of in-house and private practice experience, including seven years’ experience

Alternative investment firm Summit Partners has promoted eight professionals across the firm’s global platform. Chief Investor Relations Officer David Schiller has been promoted to Managing Director, while On Summit’s growth equity and venture capital teams, Luke Parsons and Steven Twomey have been promoted to Principal; Luke Nowicki has been promoted

Pemberton, an alternative credit specialist, has appointed Matthew Kirsch as Managing Director in its 10-people strong Credit team, led by Pemberton’s Chief Credit Officer Nicole Gates. Kirsch brings over 15 years of experience in the European leveraged finance market as both a credit analyst and originator. At Pemberton, he will

EY-Parthenon has appointed Infrastructure specialist Francois-Xavier Delenclos as a Partner with a focus on serving Infrastructure investors in the Private Equity team, including pension, infrastructure and sovereign wealth funds across the transport, energy and telecommunications sectors. Delenclos brings strategy consulting and executive experience and joins from the Private Equity practice

Mid-market private debt fund Tosca Debt Capital (TDC) has made three new appointments to support its ambitious growth plans. Rob Hanley joins as investment director and will help TDC’s portfolio companies to fulfil their strategic plans, support bolt on activity and use his credit skills to identify new investment opportunities

Venture investment firm IVP has promoted Cack Wilhelm to General Partner. In the last year, Wilhelm led IVP’s investment in Cribl’s Series C, where she is also a board observer. She also led the firm’s investments in CircleCI’s Series E and Papaya Global’s Series C. Before IVP, Wilhelm was a

Global law firm Hogan Lovells has added to its Corporate & Finance practice group with the arrival of private equity partner Parikshit Dasgupta in New York. Dasgupta is the third partner to join the Corporate & Finance practice group in the United States in 2022.    Dasgupta joins the firm

Gen II Fund Services, an independent private equity fund administrator, has promoted six of its client service professionals to Principal, bringing the number of Gen II Principals to thirty-three (33). The newly-appointed Principals are: Joshua Feldstein, Jonathan Goldstein; Michael Hall; James Myers, Yeva Rakhamimova, and Richard Zheng.