Cooper Parry Corporate Finance has promoted Ben Rookes to partner. Rookes joined the firm as a graduate 15 years ago and has risen through the ranks from associate to partner, becoming a fundamental member of the team. During his career, Rookes has been involved in a number of significant deals

Bank Leumi has made three key hires to its growing legal team in recent months. Christopher Gawley was appointed First Vice President in May, while Gerri Alfino and Sol Bernstein recently joined the bank as Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, and First Vice President, respectively. Gawley will provide legal

Law firm Howard Kennedy has strengthened its Corporate team with the appointment of new partner Jonathan Polin. Polin joined the firm on 12 June from Dentons, where he was a partner in its London office focusing on large, complex and international M&A deals. He trained at Berwin Leighton and was

Livingstone has added Krishan Raval, Joe Austin and Dustin Stevens, to the team in its London office. Raval joins Livingstone’s Debt Advisory team. Raval trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with EY working in the Capital & Debt Advisory team for almost three years. While there he gained experience

Audax Private Equity has partnered with management to acquire Altasciences Company, an early phase contract research organisation (CRO) in North America. Audax acquired Altasciences from Kilmer Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Toronto, Canada. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.   Altasciences, headquartered in Laval, Quebec,

Offshore law firm, Mourant Ozannes, has promoted 12 lawyers to the role of Counsel across its global network of offices, bringing the total number of Counsel across the firm to 31.  Six have been promoted in the firm’s Guernsey office, four in Jersey, one in the Cayman Islands and one

Campbell Lutyens, a global alternative asset advisory firms focused on fund placement and secondary transactions, has appointed Dr Teh Kok Peng to its Advisory Board.  Peng, was President of GIC Special Investments from April 1999 to June 2011, and remained an Adviser to GIC’s Group Executive Committee for two years

The Chicago office of global law firm K&L Gates has added David D Dueno as a partner in the private equity practice. He joins K&L Gates from international private equity firm Quantum Global Group, and previously practiced with international law firms in London, New York, and Chicago.   Dueno concentrates his