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Next Coast Ventures adds Venture Partner

Next Coast Ventures has added Jason Dorsey to its team as a Venture Partner. He will focus on helping Next Coast Ventures and its portfolio companies with consumer trends, brand building and customer acquisition. “Jason and his firm’s research have a comprehensive, birds-eye view on big trends in the marketplace

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Okapi Partners appoints new MD

Okapi Partners, a proxy solicitation and investor response firm that advises corporations, institutional investors, private equity firms and mutual fund companies, has appointed Alexandra Higgins as Managing Director. Higgins will augment the firm’s advisory services capabilities, providing strategic counsel to corporate clients and their advisors with a focus on governance

Kevin Nowaskey joins HQ Capital

HQ Capital has hired Kevin Nowaskey as a Vice President in the firm’s global private equity investment team. He will be based in New York. Nowaskey joins HQ Capital from Partners Group AG where he focused on the sourcing, evaluation and execution of private equity secondary transactions and participated in

NextEnergy Capital hires Head of Debt Financing

NextEnergy Capital Group has appointed Lorena Ciciriello as Head of Debt Financing. The Argentinian-born former Head of Renewable Energy EMEA in the project finance division of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), will join on 9 April 2018. Ciciriello brings with her an extensive background in financing renewable infrastructure assets in

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Dentons adds to Banking and Finance group in Paris

Global law firm Dentons has strengthened its Banking and Finance practice in Paris with the recruitment of capital markets and structured finance partner Julien Bacus and associate Aurélie Bonnet. They join Dentons from Ashurst, where Bacus was a partner in the Finance department since 2008. Prior to that, he worked

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Heartwood adds three to team

Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm of Handelsbanken in the UK, has made three new appointments. Siobhan Pandya has joined as Head of Investment Communications. Pandya is responsible for developing and implementing the content and marketing strategy for Heartwood. She has extensive experience of generating and managing cross-asset content,

PNC Business Credit adds three to secure financing team

PNC Business Credit, the senior secured lending division of PNC Bank, has made three appointments in its senior secured financing team in the Upper Midwest and Western regions.  Luke Tripodi has been appointed senior vice president and business development officer for PNC Business Credit. Based in Chicago, he has responsibilities

Michael Metzger joins Drake Star Partners’ senior team in LA

Technology, media and communications global investment bank Drake Star Partners has appointed seasoned media and Internet investment banker Michael Metzger as a Partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Metzger will be focusing on media, Internet and the tech sectors.   This announcement follows Drake Star Partners’ recent office launch

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Ogier makes promotion in London-based investment funds team

Ogier has promoted Richard Bennett from the firm’s London based investment funds team to managing associate. Bennett (pictured), who has been with Ogier since 2011, is a Registered Foreign Lawyer regulated by the Law Society of Hong Kong, and worked at Hogan Lovells and the UK Financial Services Authority before

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