Sherpa Capital, an Iberian private equity fund manager specialising in medium-sized companies, has appointed Isaac Lahuerta as an Investment Director in the firm’s special situations team.Lahuerta joins Sherpa Capital after working for more than two-and-a-half years as a Principal at private equity firm BTC, where he made debt and equity

Gen II Fund Services (Gen II), an independent private equity fund administrator, has appointed Robert Caporale as Head of Strategic Business Development. Caporale, a fund administration and alternative investments executive, will focus on developing strategic client partnerships and acquisition opportunities.Most recently, Caporale was CEO of Exchangelodge, a software company that

Tikehau Capital, an alternative asset management and investment group, has appointed Carmen Alonso as Head of the United Kingdom and Peter Cirenza is promoted to Chairman of the United Kingdom as well as Chairman of Tactical Strategies.In addition to her responsibilities in the Iberian market, Carmen Alonso will now oversee

EQT has appointed Marc Brown, former Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Corporate Development, as Partner and Head of its new EQT Growth strategy.Having overseen Microsoft’s M&A and strategic investment activities, Brown has led more than 185 acquisitions (including LinkedIn, GitHub and Minecraft) and 80 strategic equity investments (including Flipkart, Databricks

HIG Capital (HIG) has appointed Ahmad Atwan as a Managing Director in its infrastructure team. Atwan will be responsible for all aspects of the investment process including origination, transaction structuring, financing and execution of post-closing strategies. Atwan has over 20 years of experience as a private equity investor, operating executive, and

Tully Rinckey has Malachy Kearney as a Partner and head of its Investment Funds department in the firm’s Dublin office.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…

Praetura Group, a Manchester-based debt and equity capital provider to Northern SMEs, has announced a series of organisational and board changes.Following several successful years of continued and sustained growth in investing and lending, the group will simplify its corporate structure through the creation of two distinct divisions: Praetura Ventures, its

Global investment bank GCA Altium has announced Adrian Reed as the new head of its Manchester office to lead the growing team of 21.Having joined GCA Altium in 2000 as a graduate, Reed has been managing director at the firm since 2012. He specialises in technology focused transactions and has