Akin Gump has appointed Allen Shyu as a partner in the firm’s Beijing office. Shyu comes to Akin Gump from Stephenson Harwood, where he was the lead partner in the Beijing office. Shyu’s practice focuses on advising mid-sized and large-scale public companies on equity capital markets and corporate M&A transactions,

HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has opened a new office in Dublin, Ireland. The new Dublin office expands the firm’s global footprint to ten locations, adding to its presence in Beijing, Bogota, Boston, Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Toronto. Craig MacDonald, Managing Director, HarbourVest

Private equity firm the Riverside Company has promoted Karsten Langer to Managing Partner for the Riverside Europe Fund (REF). Langer will lead the management of 30 professionals across Europe as Riverside continues to look for internationally growing entrepreneurial companies.   Langer will succeed Riverside Managing Partner Tony Cabral. An integral

Drinker Biddle & Reath has appointed Jinho Alex Yim as a partner in the Corporate and Securities Group in New York. Yim comes to the firm from Nixon Peabody.
 
 With experience in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, transportation, health care, sports and manufacturing, Yim focuses his practice on large

NorthEdge Capital has made a series of promotions in its investment team. Jon Pickering takes on the role of Head of New Business, while both George Potts and James Marshall have been promoted to Investment Directors and Greg Holmes has been promoted to Investment Manager. Pickering joined NorthEdge in 2013

BGF has appointed Grant Paul-Florence to lead its London investment team. Paul-Florence joins from Octopus Investments, where he was Head of Intermediate Capital for five years, responsible for a GBP150 million fund focused on investing in smaller businesses. He brings extensive investment and multi-sector portfolio management experience to the role,

International law firm Clifford Chance has appointed Toby Parkinson as a partner in the firm’s European Infrastructure Group, based in London. Parkinson began his career at Clifford Chance’s London office in 2006, and worked in the firm’s Infrastructure and Private Equity practice for ten years, where he specialised in infrastructure

Allen & Overy (A&O) has appointed Tim Watson as a restructuring partner in its London practice. Watson re-joins the firm from a global institutional investment management firm with assets under management in excess of USD30 billion, where he has spent the past four years working closely with and advising the

Private equity funds lawyers Daniel Quinn and Aleksander Bakic are to join Akin Gump in London as partners. Quinn and Bakic focus on private equity secondary transactions, institutional investor representations and private equity fund formation. They will come to Akin Gump from O’Melveny & Myers in London. They will join

Equistone Partners Europe (Equistone), one of Europe’s leading mid-market private equity investors, has made four appointments to its investment team across Europe. The new appointments strengthen Equistone’s origination and investment capabilities across its core markets. Two of the appointments have been made in Equistone’s Munich office: Julia Brunswicker will join