Horizon Capital, a specialist investor in business services and technology companies, has appointed three new hires increasing the firm’s investment and origination team to eleven. Aidan Connelly joins as a manager with six years’ private equity investment experience at Capitalworks Investment Partners, where he focussed on the business services sector.

Level, an independent boutique which specialises in family litigation finance, has appointed Neil Purslow as Non-Executive Director.  Launched in September 2017 and backed by investment firm Quilam Capital with additional backing from Shawbrook bank, Level has continued to enjoy success.    The funder now works with over 75 law firms

Ducatus Partners, the global executive search and leadership consulting firm serving the energy, private equity and infrastructure industries, has added to its North American team with the appointment of a new Partner, Jason Miller. Miller has more than 23 years’ of international oil and gas experience with 16 years’ working

Argand Partners, a New York and San Francisco Bay Area-based middle market buyout firm, has promoted Ryan Beres to Senior Associate. “Ryan has demonstrated analytical strength and solid investment expertise during his tenure with the Argand team. His deal evaluation skills and ability to manage relationships with our portfolio company

Akin Gump has appointed Michael Gustafson as a finance partner in the firm’s London office. Gustafson joins from Pricoa Private Capital – the private debt investment arm of Prudential Financial Inc – where he served as deputy chief legal officer, Europe, based in London. Gustafson focuses on sophisticated debt finance

HIG Capital (HIG) has appointed Ed Pallesen to lead its Infrastructure team in the US. Pallesen was previously a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where he led the Americas team at the Goldman Sachs Infrastructure fund. He started his career in Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking division, spending several years on

finnCap Group (finnCap) has appointed Leigh Webb to head its private equity sponsor coverage and expand its M&A advisory business across the mid-market private equity community. Webb has an extensive track record in private equity sponsor coverage and finnCapp says his arrival will further strengthen the Group’s offering in the

Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has made three senior appointments to its Luxembourg Private Equity team. Philippe Detournay has been appointed as Director, while Waqas Khan and Gianmaria Lombardo have been appointed as Associate Directors.   Detournay joins the Group from Luxembourg-based Axior, where he was

Akin Gump has added two energy-focused transactional corporate and private equity partners, Shaun Lascelles and Simon Rootsey, to the team in the firm’s London office. Lascelles and Rootsey are expected to join Akin Gump from Vinson & Elkins in October.   Lascelles’s practice focuses on transactional public and private cross-border

Tricor Group (Tricor), an Asian provider of integrated business, corporate, investor, human resources and payroll, corporate trust and debt services, has appointed Karen Cheung as Group Director of Business Development for Trust & Corporate Services based in Hong Kong. Reporting to Tricor’s Group Chief Commercial Officer, Cheung will be responsible