UMB Fund Services (UMBFS) has hired three associates to join its business development team – Michelle Benner, Ana Burke and Jose Rincon who all join as vice presidents, business development. The trio will focus on new business development for UMBFS’ array of services for the asset management industry which include fund
Financial services and regulatory partner Arun Srivastava is to join the London office of law firm Paul Hastings from Baker McKenzie, where he is head of the Financial Services Regulatory Group. Srivastava will lead Paul Hastings’ London regulatory and fintech and payments practice. “Arun is one of the leading
Gresham House, a specialist alternatives asset manager, has appointed Heather Fleming to the newly created role of Head of Institutional Business. Fleming has over 20 years’ experience in the institutional arena, largely focussed on working with pension funds. She spent over seven years at Fidelity International, latterly as the Group’s Head of Institutional Distribution for UK & Ireland. Prior to this, she spent
Idinvest Partners, an investor in SMEs across Europe, has appointed Nicolas Debock as Investment Director in the firm’s Venture Capital team. In this position, Debock will be involved in sourcing, analysing and executing investments for the Venture Capital team, both in France and in Europe. Debock joins Idinvest Partners
Kai Wilhelm Franzmeyer has been appointed Managing Director with the European private equity specialist BlackFin Capital Partners. In September he will become Head of BlackFin in Germany, where he will have responsibility for the activities of BlackFin in the financial services markets of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH). Paul
Actis has appointed Ellen Li as Managing Director, Head of Asia of the Investor Development Group (IDG). Li will report to Neil Brown, partner and global head of the IDG, and will be based in Hong Kong. Li has extensive experience in institutional sales, having spent the last nine years
Alternative investment management software and solutions provider eFront has appointed John Legrand as Managing Director and Senior Vice President Sales for the Asia Pacific region (APAC). Legrand will directly lead the APAC sales team, coordinate the overall regional organisation, and represent eFront in the region. John comes to eFront with
King & Spalding has appointed Erik Andersen, Elizabeth Gable and Jared Zaben as partners in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group. The team has joined the firm’s New York office and advises financial institutions, alternative capital and debt funds, private equity funds, family offices and other money sources
Sweetwater Capital Partners (SWCP), a boutique private equity secondaries firm, has named Gregg Parise a Managing Partner. Parise brings over 25 years of portfolio management and principal investment experience to the firm. He will principally focus on sourcing and underwriting secondary and direct opportunities in private, high-growth companies. Since 2016,
Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has promoted 14 new partners across its tax, audit and advisory teams. The promotions, which are effective as of 30 June 2018, take BDO’s intake of new partners to 66 in the last two years. BDO promoted seven people in its audit practice: Joe
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