Boston Private, a provider of wealth management, trust and private banking services, has appointed Mark Shang as the west coast leader of its private partnership practice. In this role, he will oversee a team of professionals dedicated to meeting the cash management, lending, wealth management and trust needs of private

Boston-based growth equity firm Brook Venture Partners has promoted Brennan Mulcahey, Jonathan Green and Kyle Stanbro to partner. They join partners and board members Fred Morris, Ned Williams and Walter Beinecke, and director of finance and operations Jenn Mosto, as members of the senior management team.   The firm has

K&L Gates has appointed James CH Lee as a partner in the private equity practice in the firm’s New York office. He joins K&L Gates from Goodwin Procter.   Lee has extensive experience advising private equity funds, venture capital funds, private investment firms, high-net-worth family offices, and their respective portfolio companies

Harvest Partners (HP SCF), the non-control private equity strategy of Harvest Partners LP, has appointed Chris Peyser as a senior associate on the investment team. Peyser will evaluate, structure, execute and monitor portfolio investments.   He was most recently at Kelso & Company.   Jay Hegenbart, senior managing director and

Cairngorm Capital has appointed Stuart Whiteford as investment manager. Whiteford joins from the EuroAsia special assets group at Goldman Sachs, where he was an executive director involved in strategy and investment for a range of European opportunities.   Prior to Goldman Sachs, he was a member of Citigroup’s UK investment

BGF (Business Growth Fund) is continuing to expand its team covering the South West of England with the appointment of James Skade, who will be based in the firm’s Bristol office. Before joining BGF Skade spent five years at EY, most recently in the corporate finance team where he advised

Private equity firm NMS Capital Group has launched a real estate investment and advisory firm called NMS Capital Realty Advisors (NMSRA). NMSRA will focus on providing direct and indirect financing solutions for construction, senior secured and mezzanine loans to clients and advisory solutions related to real estate sales, recapitalisation and

Idinvest Partners, a European SME investor, has opened a Shanghai office to support the growth of its portfolio companies in Asian markets. The office will be led by Solomon Moos, corporate development Asia, who joined Idinvest in July 2016 from Allianz Global Investors.   Moos will be supported by three