Addleshaw Goddard’s Corporate team has been strengthened with the arrival at the firm of experienced dealmaker Pete Wood from Pinsent Masons. Wood, who joins the team as partner in the firm’s Leeds office, has a wealth of experience in Private Equity and M&A, advising clients across a broad range of

Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) has promoted Charles Birnbaum, Amit Karp, and Kristina Shen to partner. “We’re thrilled to recognise the major contributions that Charles, Amit, and Kristina have made to BVP’s investing practice over the years,” says Ed Colloton, partner & COO of Bessemer Venture Partners. “Each of them has

Michael Hardy has joined Duane Morris as a partner in the firm’s Baltimore office. The firm says Hardy’s appointment will enhance the firm’s corporate and securities law capabilities in Baltimore and throughout the US, He joins Duane Morris from Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP.  Hardy has extensive experience representing

Law firm McDermott Will & Emery has appointed Armando X Ramirez as a partner in the Firm’s growing Corporate & Transactional Practice Group in New York.  Ramirez rejoins his long-time colleague Jeffrey W Meyers, who arrived at McDermott in April.  Ramirez and Meyers will work together to further expand McDermott’s

Investment manager James Excell, who joined the London team at private equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP) in April 2016, has been promoted to investment director. Excell has been working alongside investment partners Mike Fell and Philip Duquenoy at KCP’s London office to source and deliver investment opportunities as part

ZEDRA has appointed Robert Lucas as the firm’s new Head of Funds, Jersey. Lucas comes to ZEDRA with over 16 years’ experience, having worked across a wide range of Trust, Fund Administrators, Corporate Funds and Private Equity firms, affording him a wealth of industry knowledge and understanding needed to build

Global investment firm KKR has appointed Go Yamashita as Head of KKR Capital Markets (KCM) Japan. In his role, Yamashita oversees a team of professionals who support KKR, the Firm’s portfolio companies and other clients by providing tailored capital markets advice and manage relationships and business development with institutional investors

Greg Lawton has joined Antares Capital’s asset management team as managing director, raising capital from institutional investors for the firm’s asset management group. In this newly formed role, Lawton will report to Timothy Lyne, senior managing director and asset management leader.   “As the growth of our asset management business