SIS Ventures, Scotland’s leading ‘profit with purpose’ fund, has appointed a new Chair. David Ovens, Chief Operating Officer at Archangels and current Vice Chair of SIS Ventures, takes over as Chair from Bill Crossan with immediate effect. Bill will remain a member of the Board to support the next phase

Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York and San Francisco, has appointed Simon P Lonergan as Managing Partner.  Lonergan joins Grant G Behrman and William M. Matthes as the firm’s Managing Partners.   “Since 2005, Simon has been an invaluable partner of our firm, consistently demonstrating

Following its successful launch of Strategic Industrial Real Estate (SIRE), am EUR2 billion (USD2.2 billion) pan-European joint venture with a leading North American private equity investor, Arrow Capital Partners has appointed Marie Ferguson as Financial Controller. Ferguson is responsible for all accounting, finance and financial reporting across the Arrow platform,

Mid-market private equity investor LDC has appointed Lawrence Dean as the Head of its South team. The appointment comes as the firm approaches its 20th anniversary in the region, having invested more than GBP575 million in over 60 of the region’s most ambitious firms since 2000, from its base in

Jambu Palaniappan has joined OMERS Ventures as managing partner in London. The former Uber executive brings extensive operational experience from the startup world to the Canadian venture capital firm’s European team. OMERS Ventures is an early-stage investor in disruptive technology companies shaping the future of how we live and work,

Boutique law firm Kleinberg Kaplan has appointed Joshua M Kaplan as a partner in its Estate Planning and Administration Practice. He joins from Dechert. With more than a decade of experience in private wealth matters, Kaplan advises clients on a broad range of issues, including estate planning and administration; estate,

Global law firm Reed Smith has appointed Sam Webster as a partner in the firm’s Global Corporate Group in London in January. The news highlights the group’s continued expansion in Europe, following the recent hire of life sciences partner Iqbal Hussain in London and tax partner Martin Bünning in Frankfurt.

Renaissance Capital, an emerging and frontier markets investment bank, has appointed Oladipupo Olalere Adekanmbi as Vice President, Investment Banking, Nigeria. Adekanmbi is based in Lagos and reports to Temitope Popoola, CEO, Nigeria and Risana Zitha, Head of Investment Banking, Africa. Popoola says: “We are glad to welcome Oladipupo to our

Livingbridge, one of the UK’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has appointed Mihir Patel and Joseph Evans as investment managers.  Patel joins Livingbridge from PwC where he was a manager in the Corporate Finance division, gaining lead advisory experience with the Real Estate M&A team. Prior to this, he worked