Blank Rome has appointed Robert L Kahan as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, M&A, and Securities group in Los Angeles. Kahan focuses his practice counselling middle-market companies in the lifestyle industries, including restaurants, entertainers, marketers, and merchandisers, across a variety of corporate transactions. Bob joins Blank Rome from a

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

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