Heitman LLC (Heitman), a global real estate investment management firm, has appointed Tony Smedley as Managing Director, Head of European Private Equity. In this role, Smedley will lead Heitman’s European Private Equity group and is tasked with broadening the scope of the firm’s European operations while continuing to serve its

Barings Real Estate has expanded its European asset management and transactions team with the appointment of Guillaume Bieganski as Director, Asset Management & Transactions.  Bieganski, who will be based in Barings’ Paris office, will support the development of the business in France and will report to Séverine Laffineur, Head of

Cairngorm Capital has promoted Alex Bayliss and John Naylor-Leyland to Managing Director. This is in recognition of their significant contributions to the growth and success that Cairngorm Capital has achieved since its formation in 2014. It also marks the expansion of Cairngorm Capital’s senior leadership team. Bayliss and Naylor-Leyland were

Z Capital Group, an alternative asset manager focused on opportunistic, value-oriented private equity and credit funds, has announced a raft of promotions across the company’s Private Equity Investment and Operations teams. Stephen Parsons, has been added to the Management Committee as an ad hoc member. Since joining Z Capital in

Pantheon has appointed two senior professionals, Justin Mallis and Michael Hutten, as Principals in its Europe and the US teams. Mallis joins as Global Head of Project Management in the Client Service team, based in London, where he will centralise and coordinate fundraising for Pantheon’s institutional strategies.   This is

EQUI, a cryptocurrency-powered investment platform that opens up venture capital to a wider audience and provides high-tech innovators and entrepreneurs a new route to investment, has added investor Duncan MacInnes to its Advisory Board. MacInnes has extensive business and investment experience having founded his first business in his teens, exiting

Invesco is expanding its Invesco Private Capital business with the appointment of Carl Stanton as a Managing Partner and Head of Private Equity.  In this newly created role, Stanton will broaden the scope of the firm’s existing private equity focus to include opportunistic buyouts and special situations. As part of the

Old Mutual Alternative Investments (OMAI), Africa’s largest private alternative investment manager, has appointed Mr Zomunoda (Zom) Chizura as Head of the Impact Funds team. The Impact Funds team manages funds targeted specifically for affordable housing, access to quality education and promoting SMME businesses.   Between the years 2014 to 2017,