Berkshire Partners has appointed Samantha Adams and Thomas Kuo as Managing Directors effective 1 January, 2016.  Adams and Kuo join the 22 existing Managing Directors of Berkshire in managing the firm and its affiliated investment funds. Berkshire’s MDs have an average tenure of 16 years with the firm. Adams joined

Todd W Betke has joined K&L Gates from Pepper Hamilton as a partner in the firm’s Washington DC office. Betke focuses his practice on commercial, legal, and regulatory issues surrounding private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund formation, as well as related acquisitions and dispositions of portfolio companies and assets.

Vinson & Elkins (V&E) has promoted 10 lawyers to the firm’s partnership, effective 1 January, 2016. The new partners are: Mike Heidler and Stephen Stout in Austin; Shaun Rogers and Danny Tobey in Dallas; Stephen Jacobson, Julian Seiguer, David Wall and Mingda Zhao in Houston; Dan Komarek in New York;

Michiel Kotting is to private equity firm Northzone as a General Partner. Kotting has spent the last five years at Accel in London. As a Partner focusing on fintech, security, infrastructure and marketplace businesses, he sits on the board of Accel’s investments in Catawiki, Fiverr, Vinted, Packlink and KNC. He

Private equity firm Spire Capital Partners has promoted Kerri McNicholas to Vice President following what the firm describes as ‘two and a half years of exceptional contributions to the Spire investment team’.  Most notably, McNicholas was a critical deal team member that was relied upon heavily as new investments were

Delphinus Medical Technologies has added two new senior-level advisors to its Board of Directors. With more than 35 years of combined experience with emerging healthcare innovators, John Neis and Michael Fulton, MD, will help guide the company as it develops commercialisation plans for SoftVue, the firm’s whole breast ultrasound system

Venture capital fund AXA Strategic Ventures (ASV) has added four new investments over the second half 2015 to its portfolio in the US. “Our world is becoming more transparent, digitally enabled and customer centric,” says ASV US’s General Partner, Manish Agarwal. “These developments are changing financial services and we are

Pamplona Capital Management has appointed Justin Perreault as a partner as it continues to build its US-based private equity presence. Perreault, who will be based in Boston, has over twenty years of information technology private investing and operating experience, and will be focussing on investing in the technology, media and

Sam Tabar has been named Chief Operating Officer for FullCycle Energy Fund. As COO, he will be responsible for the company's fund management strategy. "I am excited and honoured to take on the role of COO at FullCycle Energy Fund. I look forward to partnering with our talented senior leadership