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
K&L Gates has appointed Jae W Park as a partner in the firm’s private equity practice, effective from 1 June 2018. Park is based in the firm’s New York office. He advises and counsels public companies and financial sponsors on a wide variety of US and cross border transactions,
GCM Grosvenor, a global alternative asset management firm with more than USD50 billion of assets under management, has appointed Matthew Rinklin as Managing Director. Rinklin joins GCM Grosvenor from Oaktree Capital Management and will be responsible for executing the firm’s Labour Impact Infrastructure investing strategy. Labour Impact Infrastructure investing is investment
Regulatory compliance firm Optima Partners has appointed former Bain Capital chief compliance office Alan K Halfenger as a Partner at the firm. In his role at Optima, Halfenger (pictured) will focus on the regulatory and compliance needs of private equity managers, hedge funds, broker-dealers and global financial services firms. Optima
Global law firm Dentons has hired partner Gianpaolo Garofalo to establish the firm’s Italian Desk in London, and lead the Structured Finance group within the Banking and Finance practice in Italy. Garofalo (pictured), joins from Italian law firm BonelliErede, where he worked for the past two years in the London
Ogier has strengthened its funds practices in the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg with three partner promotions. Funds specialists Justin Savage and Anne-Gaëlle Delabye have both been promoted to partner in the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg respectively, while fund finance lawyer Mark Santangeli has been promoted to partner in the Cayman
Investec Specialist Bank (Investec) has appointed Galina Markova to its Corporate & Acquisition Finance team, which is responsible for the origination and structuring of leveraged finance and private debt solutions for mid-market corporates and private equity clients across Europe. Based in the team’s London office, Markova will play a key
Kreston Reeves has strengthened its Corporate Finance practice through a merger with Surrey-based corporate finance boutique SamCorp, and the appointment of Jack Clipsham as Corporate Finance Partner. SamCorp directors Peter Samuels and Darren Hurdle will move into the Gatwick office of Kreston Reeves and trade as Kreston Reeves. Established in
Sarah Zeng has joined Orrick’s M&A and private equity practice, resident in Beijing. Zeng has over 25 years of corporate law experience serving Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and US multinational companies, and most recently served as Managing Partner of Denton’s Beijing office. Prior to that, Zeng was General Counsel of
Cédric Lalain has joined Artemid as a Partner. Since 2017, Lalain worked as Head of Fixed Income at Assurances Crédit Mutuel and now joins the team which advises funds from the Artemid range. These funds provide senior financing solutions, with maturities between five and seven years to European SME and
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