Octopus Group has appointed of Tancredi Micangeli and Angela Gyulveszy, as distribution managers in its institutional funds team.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…

CEPRES has appointed Tony Chung as Chief Business Development Officer. In this role, he will be responsible for all aspects of business development for CEPRES’ core products and for further expanding CEPRES’ market penetration as a fast growing and innovative Private Equity Fintech Company. 

Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, has appointed Jordana Semaan, Head of HR Gulf and Asia into a newly established role as Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Champion, reporting directly to the Executive Chairman, Mohammed Alardhi. The firm has also announced a series of initiatives to enhance its D&I

Silverfleet Capital (Silverfleet), a pan-European private equity firm, has appointed Dr Christian Süss as a Partner in its Munich office, further strengthening its investment team in the DACH region. Süss, an Austrian national, joins Silverfleet from Towerbrook, where he was a Senior Principal, working across the company’s buyout and structured minority

Duff & Phelps has appointed Ven Balakrishnan as a managing director in the firm’s Transaction Advisory Services practice. Balakrishnan will lead the firm’s Strategy and Commercial Diligence offering and will be based in London.Balakrishnan has over 25 years of experience, including 15 years as managing director/partner, providing strategic and financial

Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has strengthened its Asia restructuring practice with the appointment of Edward Middleton as Managing Director based in Hong Kong. This appointment demonstrates A&M’s commitment to bolstering the firm’s growing capabilities in Asia.   Middleton brings more than three decades of experience in restructuring,

Kirkland & Ellis has appointed Manas Chandrashekar as a partner in the firm’s Debt Finance Practice Group. 

Sidley Austin has appointed Nicolai Schwarz-Gondek as a partner in the firm’s private equity practice in Century City. Schwarz-Gondek, who was previously a partner at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, concentrates his practice on private equity and M&A transactions, with a particular focus on the representation of private equity sponsors and other

Oppenheimer & Co, an investment bank, wealth manager and a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings, has appointed Jarl Berntzen as a managing director in the firm’s Global Technology Investment Banking Group with a primary focus on providing strategic advisory services to companies in the vertical SaaS and data services markets. Berntzen will