Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has added Pete Blackburn and Farhan Ahmed to its real assets senior leadership team in Luxembourg. Previously based in the Group’s Jersey office, Blackburn has been with the Group for over 10 years and has held numerous positions in relationship management
Following a record year of investment and fundraising activity in 2018, Churchill Asset Management (Churchill), a majority-owned affiliate of Nuveen focussed on originating, underwriting and managing middle market senior loan investments, has promoted Mat Linett, Managing Director, from Deputy Head of Underwriting and Portfolio Management to Head of Underwriting, and
BGF has appointed Sophie Brand as an investor in its Leeds office. Brand joins from Deloitte, where she spent nearly eight years working across the firm’s Leeds and London offices. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in Deloitte’s audit practice, Brand has spent the past four years working in the
Tax specialist William Jean-Baptiste has joined Ogier’s team in Luxembourg as a tax partner. Jean-Baptiste (pictured), who joins Ogier’s eight-strong partnership in Luxembourg, focuses on tax structuring of international investment transactions, investment funds and on-going tax management. His experience covers acquisitions and holding structures for real estate, private equity
Latham & Watkins has appointed Ivana K Rouse as a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Investment Funds Practice in the firm’s Houston office. Rouse’s practice covers a broad range of private funds, including private equity-style energy, credit and mid-market funds, cryptocurrency funds and hedge
Morrison & Foerster has appointed Christopher Kandel as a partner in the firm’s Finance practice in London. Kandel brings to the firm a wealth of experience in leveraged finance and complex international acquisition finance, and restructuring transactions. He comes to Morrison & Foerster from Latham & Watkins, where he served
Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager, has hired Joe McDonnell as head of portfolio solutions (EMEA). McDonnell will be part of the quantitative and multi-asset class investments team at Neuberger Berman, reporting to co-heads Erik Knutzen and Doug Kramer. In this newly-created role, McDonnell will be responsible
European impact investment bank ClearlySo has appointed Gillian Wilmot as chairman. Wilmot has a strong background in the consumer sector before she developed a wide range of corporate, non-profit and government experience in a variety of fields. She is also an experienced mentor and has helped coach many high growth
Schroders has appointed a private assets specialist to oversee the continued growth and development of its business on a global scale. Georg Wunderlin, most recently the Chief Executive Officer of HQ Capital, a leading alternatives manager, will assume the newly-created role of Global Head of Private Assets in May.
UK venture capital firm Vala Capital has appointed Jane Holland, ex-Financial Director at investment company The Ingenious Group, as the firm’s new COO. Holland’s appointment will help the firm grow its radical, investor-friendly EIS fund with her overseeing the management of the firm’s day to day operations. The new
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