Global investment firm KKR has appointed Chee-Wei Wong as Head of Global Impact for Asia.KKR Global Impact is focused on identifying and investing behind global opportunities where financial performance and societal impact are intrinsically aligned. The business specifically focuses on companies whose core business models provide commercial solutions that contribute

Latham & Watkins has appointed Neal Reenan and Ian Bushner as partners in the firm’s Boston and Chicago offices in the Corporate Department and as members of the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and the Private Equity Practice. Reenan and Bushner advise private equity sponsors and public and private companies on complex

Investec Corporate and Investment Banking (Investec) has appointed Tobias Sommer to its Financial Sponsor Transaction Group and Jan Straube to its Growth & Leveraged Finance team, as the bank continues to grow its multi-product Financial Sponsors business.Sommer joins from Macquarie’s Financial Sponsor Coverage and Principal Transaction Group and will continue

HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has made a series of promotions, including three new Managing Directors: Monique Austin, Simon Lund, and Nhora Otalora, as well as five new Principals and one Senior Vice President. These promotions recognise team members whose expertise contributes to the success of HarbourVest and

Evercore (NYSE: EVR) has appointed Shane Gong as a Managing Director in the firm’s Private Capital Advisory group (PCA). Gong will be based in Singapore and lead the Firm’s PCA business across the Asia Pacific region, focusing on institutional investors and fund sponsors. Gong has over 20 years of experience in

BMS Group (BMS), ab independent specialist (re)insurance broker, has appointed Sophie Wallace and Dean Andrews as Divisional Directors in the recently established Private Equity, M&A and Tax division. Andrews has also been appointed Head of Tax Liability Insurance, effective immediately.   Wallace and Andrews will report to Tan Pawar, who will

William Blair, a global boutique with expertise in investment banking, investment management, and private wealth management, has appointed veteran investment banker Bram Hall as a managing director in the firm’s global investment banking team.Hall joins William Blair’s growing Charlotte office, which has more than tripled in size since opening just

Avedon Capital Partners has promoted Alexis Weege to partner. Weege has over 12 years of private equity experience since starting his career at NIBC Capital Partners. Weege e joined Avedon Capital Partners at the inception in 2011 and has strongly contributed to the development of the firm. He holds a MSc

Jensen Partners, an executive search and corporate advisory firm for the alternative investment management industry, has appointed George Lewis as a Managing Director in the firm’s London office. This strategic new hire follows on from the recent announcement that Jensen Partners placed its own new Head of Europe, and provides the