Crestline Investors, a credit-focused institutional alternative asset manager, has created a private equity credit and fund restructuring team to actively pursue niche financing opportunities in the private equity markets. The group will focus on providing bespoke capital solutions, including preferred equity and flexible debt structures, to mature private equity funds

Adams Street Partners has appointed Jeff Akers, who joined the firm in 2006, as head of secondary investments. In this role, Akers will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the secondary business, including strategy, investments, fundraising and portfolio construction.   Akers will succeed Jason Gull, who recently announced that he

Jamie Grant has joined Shepherd and Wedderburn’s real estate and infrastructure practice as a partner. Grant joins the firm’s Glasgow office from MacRoberts where, for the last 23 years, he has been a partner.   Grant has decades of experience and in-depth expertise in property and environmental law (in particular

Seacoast Capital has added Tom Ley as a principal in the firm’s investment team. Ley has more than 20 years of experience in private equity headlined with his time leading the West Coast offices of Lincolnshire Management, HIG Capital and Guggenheim Partners.   “We’ve known Tom for many years and

International law firm Simmons & Simmons is expanding its financial markets practice with the addition of Paola Leocani and Nicholas Lasagna, who join the firm’s Milan office as partners from White & Case. Leocani (pictured) is recognised as one of Italy’s leading capital markets lawyers and is ranked in Band

Seyfarth Shaw has appointed Andrew Hough as a partner in the firm’s corporate department in Atlanta. Hough joins Seyfarth from Ballard Spahr where he was a partner in its Atlanta office. While there, he was a member of the business and finance, mergers and acquisitions/private equity, transactional finance, securities, life

Independent investment bank Zeus Capital has appointed a five strong natural resources team as it looks to tap into new markets and diversify its existing sector offering. Zeus Capital’s new team will focus on mid and small-cap clients across both public and private markets, and brings together experience from across

London based private investment boutique DeBere Capital Partners has appointed Dirk Huelsermann as London partner, to strengthen investments in the technology sector and manage international investor relations. Huelsermann joins DeBere alongside his position as trustee and managing director of his family office.   Huelsermann started his investment career on the