Optimum Strategic Communications (Optimum), an international strategic healthcare communications firm, has appointed Shabnam Bashir to help build and strengthen its integrated public relations and investor relations offering to clients across the global healthcare industry.Shabnam brings 10 years of experience advising UK and international companies ranging from start-ups to large public

Floreat has appointed Phil Griffiths as Managing Director within Floreat Aviation Capital Limited, its specialist aircraft leasing investment arm.  Griffiths brings extensive experience in the aviation sector, having closed over USD10 billion in aircraft finance and leasing transactions since 2003. He joins from DAE Capital, where he headed the company’s corporate

Great Point Media (Great Point), a London-based media and investment group, has appointed Jamie Lowe as Head of Institutional Distribution. Lowe will oversee the structuring and launch of Great Point’s global institutional project finance fund which will look to invest in large-scale media projects and finance film and television programming globally.

Tax lawyer Nadine Gelli is to join the Paris office of law firm Kirkland Ellis as a partner.Gelli brings more than 20 years of experience in advising on all tax aspects of corporate transactions with a particular focus on leveraged buyouts, financing and restructuring projects. She also has experience in

Abris Capital Partners, a private equity investor in Central and Eastern Europe, has promoted Paulina Pietkiewicz, Edgar Kolesnik and Adrian Stanculescu to Partner. Their new roles are effective beginning January 2020. They will also join the Investment Committee as non-voting members. Pietkiewicz, previously Operations Director and Chief Compliance Officer, joined Abris

Buzzacott has appointed Antoine Housden as Head of Financial Services Tax.Housden joins Buzzacott from EY, where he worked as a director in the Wealth and Asset Management Tax Practice. Over the past 15 years, Housden has also worked at PwC and Kinetic Partners (now Duff & Phelps), in the UK

Mid-market private equity investor LDC has strengthened its South West & Wales team with the appointment of Oliver Schofield as an Investment Director.

Schofield joins LDC from Goldman Sachs, where he was part of the Leveraged Finance team, supporting clients across the TMT and Industrials sectors. Prior to this, Schofield worked

Private equity investor Berkshire Partners has appointed Matt Gooch, Saad Hasan and Ben Levy as Managing Directors effective 1 January, 2020. They join the 22 current Managing Directors in managing the firm and its affiliated investment funds. The firm’s 25 Managing Directors have an average tenure of 16 years with the

Growth private equity firm TA Associates has promoted eight staff members in its Boston, London and Mumbai offices, effective 1 January, 2020, including two new Managing Directors.“It is an honour to recognise the promotions earned by these talented and dedicated team members who have provided a tremendous level of value-add

Ara Partners Group (Ara Partners), a Houston-based private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments, has expanded its senior management team with the promotion of Johanna Schmidtke to Managing Director. Schmidtke joined Ara Partners in 2018 as a Principal. “We’re delighted to announce Johanna’s promotion,” says Troy Thacker, Managing Partner of