Gabriel Urwitz, founder and Chairman of Segulah, will step down from the role of Chairman. Having founded the business in 1994 and served as Managing Partner as well as Chairman for 25 years, Urwitz will remain a member of the Investment Committee for the duration of the Segulah V investment
Kainos Capital (Kainos), a food and consumer-focussed private equity firm, has promoted Jay Desai to Partner. Desai was previously a Managing Director of Kainos and has over 15 years of principal investing, investment banking and strategy experience in the food and consumer products sectors. Andrew Rosen, Managing Partner
SANNE, a provider of alternative asset and corporate services, has opened a new office in Tokyo, Japan. The company has also made the key appointment of Mark Bennett as Country Head of its Japanese business. The opening of this new office expands SANNE’s already strong network of offices across the
Leading offshore law firm Carey Olsen has appointed Jasmine Amaria as a Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands (BVI) corporate partner in its London office. Amaria, who joins from the London office of another offshore law firm, specialises in both Cayman Islands and BVI corporate law. She has significant experience
Jose Castellano has joined iM Global Partner as deputy CEO and Head of International Business Development. iM Global Partner is an investment and development asset management platform focused on acquiring strategic investments in traditional and alternative investment firms, its Partners, with an objective of growing together. iM Global Partner aims
Independent Growth Finance (IGF), the leading independent asset based lender, has made further investment in its asset based lending sales team following a record year. With 17 years’ experience working in asset based lending and invoice finance, the appointment of Nigel Hibbert as ABL director strengthens IGF’s presence in the South
Mark Knight has joined Sidley Austin as a partner in the firm’s London office. He will be a member of Sidley’s global Restructuring practice. Knight is experienced in leading complex, precedent- setting multi-jurisdictional restructurings on both the creditor and debtor sides. Before joining Sidley, Knight served as a partner and
Hogan Lovells has appointed John Duke as Office Managing Partner for the firm’s Philadelphia office, effective 1 January. Duke is a Corporate Transactional partner whose diverse corporate practice encompasses mergers and acquisitions, public equity offerings, joint ventures, corporate governance and public company compliance matters. He has advised on dozens of
Franklin Templeton Investments has appointed George Szemere as its new Head of Alternative Sales, EMEA. Based in London, Szemere joins Franklin Templeton with immediate effect from Columbia Threadneedle, where he was most recently Head of Liquid Alternatives and Global Strategic Relations EMEA Distribution. Reporting to Vivek Kudva, Managing Director for
EQT has promoted six existing directors to the role of partner, effective 1 January. The new partners are: Brian Chang, Mid-Market, Singapore; Victor Englesson, Mid-Market, Stockholm; Stephen Escudier, Credit, New York; Carl Johan Renström, Equity, Stockholm; Magnus Tornling, Equity, Oslo; and Matthias Wittkowski, Equity, Munich. Christian Sinding, CEO and Managing
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