San Francisco Equity Partners (SFEP), a private equity firm exclusively focussed on expansion-stage companies in the consumer industry, has appointed Mary Kayser as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Compliance Officer (CCO). Kayser brings more than 20 years of finance, accounting, tax and operations experience to SFEP. She most recently

Sidley Austin has appointed Kenneth J Baronsky as a partner in the firm’s Corporate group in Century City. Baronsky has vast experience advising companies, private equity sponsors, executives, owners and board members. He joins from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, where he developed a transactional practice and served as

Corporate dealmaker T Hale Boggs III has joined O’Melveny’s Century City office as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice. 

Boggs arrives from a prominent legal and professional services firm, where he was chair of the media, technology, and advertising division and venture capital/emerging companies practice.    
 Boggs is well-known

Management consultancy CIL has established its first US office in Chicago. The company, which has historically served its international client base from the UK, is expanding its footprint in response to growing demand for its services from both US and European clients.   CIL specialises in growth strategy and customer referencing.

UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) business has made two appointments to strengthen its global infrastructure effort. Patrick Cunningham arrives at REPM with over 20 years of investment markets experience, the majority of which has been focussed on the infrastructure, energy and real asset sectors. He

DWS has appointed Thomas Kalthöfer as Investment Director within its global infrastructure investment business. Based in London, Kalthöfer will join the Pan European Infrastructure (PEIF) investment team which currently manages PEIF II, a closed-end fund focusing on unlisted European infrastructure investments that closed in 2017 with EUR 2.5 billion available

Private equity investor Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has promoted five senior staff to partnership positions. The newly promoted partners are Colin Anderson (Property), Suzanne Lupton (Co-investment), Ewan McKinnon (Private Equity), David Milroy (Private Equity) and Andrew Whiteley (Property). Colin Anderson joined Maven in 2014 after 11 years in various Corporate

Pamplona Capital Management (Pamplona) has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Martin Schwab and William Pruellage as Co-Managing Partners, jointly responsible for Pamplona’s day-to-day operations.    Alex Knaster and John Halsted will continue to lead the firm, with Alex remaining as Chairman & CEO, and John becoming President

Private equity firm OpenGate Capital has hired Shawn Haghighi as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer.   Working from the firm’s office in Los Angeles, Haghighi joins OpenGate’s global senior leadership team comprising investment professionals in Los Angeles and Paris, France.   Haghighi is a tenured professional with over 18