Mid-market private equity investor, LDC, has strengthened its South West & Wales team, based in Bristol, with the appointment of a new Investment Director, Stefan Gunn. Gunn joins LDC’s team from NatWest, bringing more than 15 years of relevant experience to the firm.   In his new role, Gunn will

Funds specialist Sophie Reguengo has been promoted to partner in Ogier’s Jersey investment fund team.  Reguengo joins Niamh Lalor and Emily Haithwaite as partners leading the Jersey investment funds team, making Ogier’s the first all-women led investment funds legal team in the Island. Reguengo is a highly experienced investment funds

Specialist financier ExWorks Capital is moving its London office to 33 Central, King William Street in the City of London from its previous London headquarters on Cornhill. Over the past two years, the Chicago-based company, which opened its first international office in London in 2017, has enjoyed notable success, ensuring

Grasshopper Bank, a new commercial venture bank for innovation economy companies and the venture capital firms that fund them, has appointed Barbara Fleming as Head of Venture Capital and Private Equity Relationships.  Fleming joins from Bridge Bank, where she helped launch and expand its private equity and venture capital direct

Timothy (Tim) Swan has joined BakerHostetler as a partner in the firm’s Business Group. Swan, who was previously a partner at Sidley Austin LLP and, most recently, at Frost Brown Todd LLC, will be resident in the firm’s Cincinnati office. Swan advises clients through a variety of technology transactions, most

Augusta, a UK-based itigation and dispute funding institution, has appointed Polly Bahl as Chief Operating Officer, based in London.  Bahl joins from US law firm Proskauer Rose where, as London Director of Professional and Administrative Resources, she coordinated a range of operational functions. A solicitor by training, Bahl qualified with

Astarte Capital Partners, an alternatives co-investment platform, has appointed Omar Habboush, CFA, to its business development team as an Associate.  Habboush joins recent hires Richard Templer, Finance Director, and Bruno Fumach, Investment Director, in the London office.   Prior to his appointment at Astarte Capital Partners, Habboush gained seven years