Lazard UK Investment Banking (Lazard) has launched a new team, Lazard Venture and Growth Banking, and appointed Garri Jones and Nick James as Managing Directors in the company’s UK investment banking business. Jones and James will formally start their new roles in January from Numis, where they ran a ventures
Schmitt focuses on the commercial tire market, light manufacturing, and other middle market industrial businesses, assisting companies with M&A activities, financing growth, and market consolidation on the buy or the sell side. Prior to joining Skyway Capital Markets, Schmitt served in various senior management and executive positions with Michelin North
Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie has hired private equity partner Justin Hutchinson from Kirkland & Ellis, as part of the Firm’s continued efforts to drive growth across its transactional practices and increase the Firm’s bench-strength in London – one of the key centres for further investment alongside New York
The Maples Group, a global service provider offering clients a comprehensive range of legal, fiduciary, fund, regulatory and compliance, and entity formation and management services, has recently appointed its thousandth member of staff. Alasdair Robertson, Global Managing Partner of Maples and Calder, the Group’s law firm, says: “2019 has certainly
Ares Management Corporation has appointed Michael Schechter as Partner and Head of Credit Trading. Based in Los Angeles, Schechter will oversee the trading of all bank loans, high yield and related credit instruments in the US and Europe. In this new position, Schechter will work with Ares’ existing senior trading
AMP Capital has appointed Ric Gordon as Head of Asset Management, Americas for its Infrastructure Equity business. Gordon joins from Macquarie Capital, where he led asset management for the Americas, Europe and Asia since 2013. He has 15 years’ experience in private markets asset management, driving due diligence of investment
The Investment Management Due Diligence Association (IMDDA), an investor-based organisation dedicated to the professionals who perform investment and operational due diligence, has appointed Kelly DePonte, Managing Director at Probitas Partners, to its Advisory Board. “We are excited to welcome Kelly to the IMDDA Advisory Board,” says Andrew Borowiec, IMDDA Executive
Ancala Midstream Acquisitions (Ancala Midstream) has appointed Eric Marston as Chief Operating Officer and Nick Harrison as Chief Financial Officer. Ancala Midstream recently announced the acquisition of the Zennor-operated Finlaggan gas processing business and has grown its inventory of contracted gas volumes since taking operatorship of the SAGE system. The SAGE
CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, has appointed Seema Dhanani and Benson Adenuga as Heads of Office for Kenya and Nigeria, respectively. The appointees’ deep investment experience and strong local networks will be instrumental in advancing and accelerating CDC’s commitment to invest USD4.5 billion from 2018 – 2021 across Africa,
Context Capital Partners, an alternative specialist firm with holdings and operating companies in various sectors of the alternatives space, has appointed Eric Noll as Chief Executive Officer of Context Capital Partners, with Ron Biscardi (pictured) shifting to become Chief Executive Officer of Context Summits on a full-time basis. In his new role, Noll
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