Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has appointed Craig Hopwood as an Investment Director, based in the Manchester office. Hopwood joins from HSBC where he was responsible for looking after a portfolio of larger private equity-backed businesses across the region including Fircroft, Tangerine and Innovia. Prior to this, he worked in the

Los Angeles-based private equity firm LightBay Capital has appointed David Leeney as a Managing Director and Head of Business Development. He will be responsible for coordinating LightBay’s deal sourcing and relationship management efforts. Leeney brings more than 14 years of business development, origination, and investor relations experience to LightBay. Prior

International corporate finance firm Clearwater International has appointed Dan Salt as a Director in its Birmingham office. Salt (pictured), joins Clearwater International with over 10 years’ experience in finance, having previously worked for RBS and CYBG. He has worked with public and private companies as well as private equity across

Law firm Goodwin has added Ian O’Donnell – venture capital fund formation specialist – as a partner in the firm’s Private Investment Funds practice San Francisco. Concentrating on the formation and representation of venture capital, growth equity and private equity funds, O’Donnell’s practice also includes the representation of issuers and

Palatine Private Equity has invested in its Midlands team with the appointment of Tom Hustler as Investment Manager. Hustler joins from The Royal Bank of Scotland where he worked as an Associate Director in the Structured Finance team. During his time there, Tom worked on a range of large corporate

Twin Brook Capital Partners (Twin Brook), the middle-market direct lending subsidiary of Angelo, Gordon & Co, has appointed Timothy Schifer, former Director of Portfolio Management at Madison Capital Funding, as a Managing Director focused on underwriting and portfolio management.  Twin Brook also announced that Vishal Sheth, former Director on Angelo,

Sky9 Capital, a China venture capital firm, has added KS Chay, Dr Kok Peng Teh, Bob Xu, and Jason Zeng to its advisory board to provide strategic advice and foster long-term partnerships. Chay is Founder and Chairman of Enspire Capital, and previously he co-founded Singapore’s first Nasdaq-listed technology company, Creative

Macquarie Capital, the corporate advisory, capital markets and principal investing arm of Macquarie Group (Macquarie) has appointed Anand Subramanian as a Managing Director and Co-Head of Private Capital Markets in its San Francisco office. Subramanian has more than two decades of industry experience, having spent the majority of his career