Graphite Capital, a UK mid-market private equity specialist, has made one promotion and two new appointments to its investment team.Lara Markham has been promoted to investment director. Since joining Graphite in 2017, she has worked on a variety of transactions in multiple sectors. Markham was previously with OC&C Strategy Consulting

JMP Group, an investment banking and alternative asset management firm, has appointed Staci Slaughter to the company’s board of directors, effective 5 November, 2020. Slaughter, who will serve as a member of the board’s corporate governance and nominating committee, takes JMP Group’s board to ten directors, six of whom are independent.

Experienced investment funds and corporate lawyer Dilmun Leach has joined Walkers’ Jersey team as a Group Partner.Dilmun, who joins as a lateral partner hire from another Jersey firm, becomes the fourth partner in the growing investment funds and corporate team alongside Jonathan Heaney, Christopher Reed and Leanne Wallser.     Dilmun

Cavendish Corporate Finance, a UK’s mid-market M&A firm and part of the finnCap Group, has appointed Jamie Blewitt to head its new Alternative Capital division, which will provide family offices and other private capital funds with a bespoke range of services as well as attractive opportunities to back or acquire

Sherpa Capital, an Iberian private equity firm focused on medium-sized companies, has appointed José Angel Medina as an Operating Partner in its Portfolio Management team. Medina’s main mission will be to add value to the investee companies by supporting management teams on their daily operations and helping them to transform their

Pemberton, a European private credit asset manager, backed by UK insurer Legal & General Group, has appointed Scott Hamilton, to the newly created role of Managing Director for North American Business Development. Hamilton will lead institutional client coverage and consultant relations for Pemberton’s European private debt strategies in the US and

Chartered accountants, haysmacintyre, has promoted Jon Dawson to Partner in the firm’s Creative, Media and Technology (CMT) team.Dawson trained and qualified at haysmacintyre, before specialising in the CMT sector, and has extensive experience working with entrepreneurial, scale-up businesses as well as listed groups. He has widespread experience working closely with

KPMG’s Private Equity Group in the UK has appointed three new partners and one associate partner to the business as it looks to grow its market share advising investors across all aspects of the investment lifecycle.Neil Coomber joins KPMG from PwC where he was a partner in the transaction services

Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 16 attorneys as partners of the firm, effective 1 November.The new partners illustrate the characteristics that have established Ropes & Gray as one of the world’s premier global law firms. They are proven industry leaders with deep knowledge of our clients’ businesses,