Norwest Equity Partners (NEP), a middle market investment firm founded in 1961, has appointed Eric Kau, a proven operating executive and CEO advisor, as an operating partner. 

Peter J Rooney, a seasoned M&A and private equity lawyer with nearly 30 years of experience, has joined Stroock’s national Corporate Group as a partner in the New York Office.  Rooney joins Stroock from Morrison & Foerster, where he was a partner.   Rooney’s practice centres on representation of US

RealBlocks, an alternative investments platform that enables global distribution capabilities for fund managers, has appointed Michael Hanus, CFA as the firm’s new Senior Managing Director of Distribution. Read the full story at Wealth Adviser…  

BTIG has appointed Yun Zhong PhD as a publishing analyst in the firm’s Healthcare Equity Research team.  Zhong’s research coverage will focus on the biotechnology subsector, where he will specialise in gene therapy, genetic medicine, targeted therapy, rare disease and haematology. In his new role, he joins the firm as

Argand Partners (Argand), a New York- and San Francisco Bay Area-based industrials private equity firm, has made four promotions and an addition to its investment team. The following four promotions became effective 1 March, 2021: Charlie Burns to Principal, Ryan Beres to Vice President, and Brendan Fogarty and Riley McCabe

UK impact investor Fortunis Capital has appointed Saket Narula as a Director. Saket joins Fortunis from Amadeus Capital Partners where as part of the firm’s senior management team he headed investor relations and was also responsible for fundraising for Amadeus’ multi-strategy venture capital funds. Saket supports Fortunis Capital’s mission to

Praetura Ventures, a venture capital investor, has appointed four industry heavyweights to its team – Colin Greene, Dominic McGregor, Catherine Barber-Brown and Mark Slade who all join as operational partners. Greene, who has recently returned to the UK from Silicon Valley, has spent the last 30 years working for some

Blackstone has appointed Paul Morrissey, a seasoned investment professional with extensive private equity and venture capital experience, as a Managing Director to lead investing across Europe for Blackstone Growth (BXG). This newly created role will see Morrissey manage the European deployment for BXG, which recently completed the final close of

OakNorth Bank is continuing to strengthen its regional footprint with three new hires to its lending teams in the North West, Yorkshire and East Anglia. OakNorth Bank’s 2020 Annual Report revealed that, despite the ongoing challenges of Covid-19, it lent GBP1.1 billion to the Missing Middle last year, supporting hundreds