Inflexion Private Equity has appointed Simon Tilley as Partner in the firm’s Partnership Capital team and Ben Long as Investment Director in the Enterprise Fund team. Tilley brings a wealth of experience to our unique minority investment fund, Inflexion Partnership Capital. Offering investment between GBP10 million to GBP150 million in

SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm with a disciplined focus on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceutical sectors, has expanded its team with the addition of Edward Donkor as a Principal, and Simon Dowker as Director of Business Development. Prior to joining SK Capital, Donkor was a Principal at

Ancala Partners (‘Ancala’), the independent mid-market infrastructure investment manager, has strengthened its infrastructure asset management and investment teams with two new appointments. Ancala has appointed Charles Herriott as Asset Manager to assist in the active management of existing investments in Ancala’s portfolio. He joins from DIF where he was an

Estera, a provider of fiduciary and administration services, has launched in Luxembourg, following its successful acquisition of Headstart earlier this year. Led by managing directors Christophe Gaul and Manuel Mouget, Estera (Luxembourg) provides a full range of high-end specialist corporate and trust services to a diverse client base of private

Livingbridge has expanded its Equity Funds business with the appointment of David Leahy to Investment Analyst. Leahy initially joined the Livingbridge private equity team in September 2016 to focus on investing in high growth companies, both public and privately owned.  Livingbridge earlier this year expanded the Equity Funds business with the

Partech Ventures has promoted André Francois-Poncet to Principal and appointed Victor Huberson as a Senior Associate, based in Paris. A former M&A banker, André Francois-Poncet, who joined Partech Growth two and a half years ago, helped lead Partech’s investments in Made.com, Brandwatch, EcoVadis, and SendinBlue.   “It has been a

Bedell Cristin has appointed Lee Osborne as a Senior Associate in its Guernsey office. Osborne (pictured), advises on a broad range of corporate, commercial and banking matters including investment funds and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross border transactions and corporate re-structuring.     A member of the

Prestige has appointed Dr Phil Hobbs as a specialist finance arranger at Privilege Finance, a provider integrated specialist consulting and financial solutions for small businesses within the agricultural, farming and food related sectors across the UK. Hobbs will be focusing on optimising new and under-performing digesters in the agricultural and

Schroders has appointed Reto Schwager as Chief Executive Officer of Schroder Adveq. Schwager joins from the financial services group Orix Corporation where he was Global Head of Private Equity at Robeco and member of the executive committee of Robeco SAM. Prior to that Schwager was a partner and member of

Macquarie Capital, the corporate advisory, capital markets and principal investment arm of Macquarie Group, has appointed Matthew Taylor as Head of Business Services, and Henry Elphick as a Senior Consultant to its European business. Taylor will report to Jacques Callaghan, a Senior Managing Director within Macquarie Capital, and Hugh Briggs,