SSA & Company has appointed Philippe Rose as managing director. Rose, who brings over 25 years of experience in chemicals and management consulting, will grow and lead the firm's European private equity and industrials practice having formerly run Celerant's Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) private equity practice.   In

PenderFund Capital Management, the manager of the Pender suite of investment and alternative funds, has appointed Maria Pacella to its investment management team. Pacella joins Pender as senior vice president of private equity.   She has 16 years of experience of investing in emerging growth companies, mostly in the areas

Kirkland & Ellis International has appointed Volkmar Bruckner as a partner in the firm’s Munich office in the corporate practice group. Bruckner focuses his practice on private equity and M&A.      Bruckner joins Kirkland from the Munich office of Weil Gotshal & Manges where he has been a partner

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery has added a new corporate team in its Milan office with the arrival of three partners, Giancarlo Castorino, Ettore Scandale and Emidio Cacciapuoti, and a team of four counsel and 10 fee earners.  The team joins from the Milan office of King &

CohnReznick, a US-based accounting, tax, and advisory firm, has tapped Netherlands-based Marc Altena to serve as EMEA advisory services leader and leader of the firm’s newly formed European subsidiary, CohnReznick Netherlands, based in The Hague. Altena is an experienced consultant specialising in business and technology transformation solutions.   Previously, he

YFM Equity Partners has appointed James Savage as portfolio director. Based in the London office, he will focus on actively managing YFM’s growth and buy-out investments as part of the portfolio team led by David Bell.   With over 12 years’ industry experience, Savage joins from Barclays’ Principal Investments team

bfinance, an independently owned investment consultancy, has appointed Anish Butani to strengthen infrastructure coverage in the private markets team. Butani (pictured) joins from KPMG Corporate Finance, where he gained over 8 years’ experience as a senior member of the infrastructure corporate finance team based in London, advising investors on M&A

83North, the international venture capital firm with operations in Europe and Israel, has appointed David Buttress as a general partner. Buttress will be based at the firm’s London office and will work alongside 83North’s five existing general partners.   Until February 2017 Buttress was the chief executive officer of Just