Global law firm Ropes & Gray has appointed Will Rosen as co-managing partner of its London office, to work alongside current office managing partner Mike Goetz. The appointment starts with immediate effect. Rosen, who is also co-head of the firm’s international practice group, has been a partner at Ropes & Gray

EyeSouth Partners has appointed Rex Adams to the Company as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). EyeSouth is a network of affiliated medical and surgical specialty eye care practices in Georgia and the broader Southeast, formed by private equity firm Shore Capital Partners. Adams will work closely with the senior leadership team

MMC Ventures has promoted Head of Research, David Kelnar, to Partner. MMC has focused on the technology sector since it was founded in 2000. Under David Kelnar’s leadership MMC has built up a widely recognised Research function which it uses to guide its investment themes and to provide the entrepreneurs

Cooley is expanding its Asia-Pacific presence with the launch of a Beijing office, the firm’s 13th worldwide and its second in China, having opened in Shanghai in 2011. Investment funds lawyer Xun Zeng joins from Ropes & Gray and will be Cooley’s first resident partner in Beijing.   “China is

Law firm Paul Hastings has appointed Rich Davis as a partner in the firm’s Finance practice, based in Washington, DC. He joins from DLA Piper, where he was a partner. “Finance is one of our fastest growing practices at Paul Hastings thanks to increased client demand,” says Seth Zachary, chair of

KKR has appointed Jacques Veyrat as a Senior Advisor to support the firm’s investment activities in France. Veyrat is a senior French executive with deep experience across a range of different sectors. He currently manages his own company, Impala SAS, a diversified investment company with around EUR1bn net asset value,

Mid Europa Partners, a private equity firm focused on Central and Eastern Europe, has promoted Andrej Babache to partner. Robert Knorr and Matthew Strassberg, Mid Europa’s Co-Managing Partners, say: “We are delighted to welcome Andrej to the Partnership and to recognise his commitment and significant contribution to the success of

Marc Wursdorfer has joined UBS as a Managing Director and EMEA Head of the Private Funds Group. Wursdorfer brings a wealth of experience in private equity fundraising and secondary advisory having joined us from Credit Suisse, where he spent 15 years, initially in investment banking both in Zurich and London before