Kainos Capital, a private equity firm specialising in acquiring and managing food and consumer businesses, has appointed Alex Stanek as a senior associate of supply chain, further expanding its operations management capabilities.Andrew Rosen, Managing Partner of Kainos, says: “We are excited to officially welcome Alex to the Kainos team. We

Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has bolstered its leadership team with the appointments of James Titmuss to Partner, Joe McGee to Associate Director, and Yun Ma to Investment Manager. These promotions underline Livingbridge’s continued commitment to developing a robust and skilled network across the UK.  

M/C Partners, a private equity firm focused on small and mid-size businesses in the communications and technology services sector, has promoted Ryan Carr, Abhishek (AB) Rampuria and Julia Senior to Partner from Vice President.  Additionally, Arvind Viswanathan has been promoted to Senior Associate.    “Ryan, AB, and Julia have each demonstrated

Orrick announced has added three new parters to its global Corporate team: private equity M&A advisor Leah Recht from Kirkland & Ellis and capital markets advisors Edward Dyson from Cooley and Mark Mushkin from Cravath.

Bracewell (UK) has appointed Tom Jamieson, Jo En Low and Gordon Stewart as parthers in the firm’s global energy practice in London.

Mid-market private equity firm ECI Partners has appointed three new Partners, among a raft of other senior promotions. Despite market uncertainty, ECI’s portfolio has remained resilient, and the business delivered on five new investments and five exits over the course of the year.   Michael Butler, Duncan Ramsay and Stephen Roberts

Sidley Austin has appointed Idan Netser and Andrew Harper as transactional partners in the firm’s Palo Alto office. Netser will be a member of the Emerging Companies and Venture Capital, and Tax practices while Harper will be a member of the Emerging Companies and Venture Capital practice. Both Netser and Harper

Edge Investments (Edge), a growth investor in the UK creative economy, has appointed Simon Andrews as Chief Investment Officer (CIO), to help drive growth and realise the potential of its current and future portfolio companies.Andrews has a wealth of experience throughout the venture capital world, joining Edge from the Business

Aksia has hired Chris Thorne as a Managing Director for Private Equity & Real Assets Research in its London office, where he will be involved in all phases of the investment process including sourcing, due diligence, monitoring and assisting the Portfolio Advisory team.Thorne brings over fifteen years of experience investing

Hughes Hubbard & Reed has elected three new partners and five new counsel, effective 1 January, 2021.“We are thrilled to congratulate these outstanding lawyers on their well-deserved promotions,” says Ted Mayer, chair of Hughes Hubbard. “They are leaders in their fields and not only bring a tremendous amount of specialised