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

HIG Capital (HIG), a global private equity investment firm with over EUR34 billion of equity capital under management, has appointed Pascal Meysson as a Managing Director and Head of HIG WhiteHorse Europe, HIG’s direct lending European affiliate.Pascal has 24 years of investing experience overall including 16 years in the European direct

HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has appointed Rob MacGoey as the chief financial officer (CFO) of the Firm’s Management Company. MacGoey will work alongside Karin Lagerlund, current CFO, who will focus on client and fund accounting, treasury and capital markets. “As our Firm has continued to grow, our

Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has made two new senior appointments to the Group’s Private Equity team –n Paul Watson has been appointed as a Director, while Alexandra Prince has assumed the role of Associate Director.With 20 years’ experience in international finance, Watson brings expertise in

Avista Capital Partners (Avista), a private equity firm focused exclusively on healthcare, has appointed Steve Schiess and William E Klitgaard to the firm’s operating executive team. As Operating Executives, Schiess and Klitgaard, who bring decades of experience in the healthcare industry, will play active roles in sourcing investment opportunities and building,

Keensight Capital, a private equity manager dedicated to pan-European growth buyout investments, has appointed Stéphane Jamin as a Director.Jamin benefits from 10 years of experience both in the industry and in strategic consulting. Alongside the investment team, he will support portfolio company managers in the fields of operational excellence, commercial