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

BTG Advisory, a division of Begbies Traynor Group plc, has appointed experienced funding experts David Smithies, Stephen Couldwell and Andy Chaffer to its corporate solutions team. David, Stephen and Andy will work with banks and professionals to help businesses across the North to access unsecured lending, in partnership with European

Macfarlanes has appointed Tim Plews as a consultant in the firm’s financial services regulation team, effective 1 May 2019. Plews specialises in financial services markets law and regulation, financial institution mergers and acquisitions, the development of new financial products, governance of financial institutions and regulatory investigations and enforcement.   He

Tosca Debt Capital (TDC) has appointed Stuart Thwaites as Investment Director as it strengthens its regional deal making and advisory team ahead of its next fundraising launch.  As Investment Director, Thwaites will leverage his extensive financial due diligence experience throughout TDC’s growing deal opportunities pipeline to convert new transactions, as

London-based venture capitalist firm, Luminous Ventures, has appointed John Spindler as a Venture Partner. The highly regarded entrepreneur, investor and venture capitalist has a distinguished career spanning more than 15 years.   As CEO of Capital Enterprise, and Founder/General Partner of AI Seed and London Co-Investment Fund, which is supported

Beechbrook Capital, a specialist direct lender, has appointed Peter Gottron as Investment Director, DACH, covering Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Gottron will be based in Frankfurt, establishing Beechbrook’s first office in Germany. Gottron was previously head of corporate banking for Mainzer Volksbank and before that a director and head of acquisition

AMP Capital has appointed Thomas Preising as a senior adviser to its infrastructure equity business. Preising was most recently the Global Business Operations Director for Apple, based in Cupertino, US. He had joined Apple in 2004 as the Operations Director for Apple Europe, before moving to Delhi as the Sales