BTG Global Advisory, an international alliance of independent restructuring and financial advisory firms, is expanding with the appointment of KRyS Global, a restructuring and insolvency firm with a focus on fraud investigation and dispute resolution, based in the Cayman Islands. KRyS Global was founded in 2007 and now has a team

Alternative asset management firm Black Diamond Capital Management has appointed Todd Arden as Senior Managing Director and Co-Chief Credit Officer.   Arden will have responsibility for co-managing Black Diamond's underwriting processes and credit exposures and will also source stressed and distressed investment opportunities for Black Diamond's funds. Hw will be based in

Rainer Traugott is to join Latham & Watkins as a partner in the Corporate Department of the firm’s Munich office. Traugott’s practice focuses on the representation of large German corporates and private equity firms on M&A transactions and a broad range of corporate law matters.   Traugott will bring more

Blackstone has appointed Peter Grauer to the firm’s board of directors. Grauer has been the Chairman of Bloomberg, the global business and financial information company, since March 2001 and joined Bloomberg full time as President and Chief Executive Officer in March of 2002. Commenting on the appointment, Stephen A Schwarzman,

Mid Europa Partners a private equity firm focused on buyouts in Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey, has promoted Dominika Kozlowska-Login and Viktoria Habanova to Associate Directors, Lukasz Wlodarczyk to Senior Associate and Bartosz Malecki, Can Karapence, Filip Kisdobranski and Tomas Vrba to Associates. Additionally, Berke Biricik, Csanad Daniel and

Adams Street Partners has appointed industry veterans Bill Sacher and Shahab Rashid to establish and build a private credit platform. The pair will lead the firm's credit capabilities from a new Manhattan office. Adams Street provides investors with access to high-quality private company securities, both directly and indirectly, through a

Mooreland Partners has promoted two of its London-based senior banking professionals, Louis Jeng and Fabian Zimmer, to the position of Executive Director. Jeng joined Mooreland in 2011, and is a member of the firm's Enterprise Software and Industrial Technologies and Electronics teams. Since joining Mooreland, he has completed M&A transactions for

Private equity firm Resilience Capital Partners has appointed Chad F Hesse to the newly-created role of General Counsel.  "As our firm continued to expand over the last 18 months, we saw an increasing need for a legal professional to join our internal team," says Steven Rosen, Co-CEO at Resilience Capital Partners.

VentureFounders, the UK-based equity investment platform for sophisticated investors, has appointed former CEO of Dyson, Martin McCourt, as Chairman of its Board. The appointment  follows the completion of a GBP1.8 million fundraise, which will be used to fuel further growth for the investment platform that aims to make venture capital