Elian has appointed an associate director with more than 10 years’ experience in auditing, banking and finance has been appointed to oversee the fund services team in the firm’s Hong Kong office. Kathy Cheng (pictured), who was educated in Australia and Hong Kong, brings extensive fund, alternative investment and auditing

Law firm Paul Hastings has added restructuring and debt finance partner David Ereira to the firm’s London office as a partner in the Corporate practice. Ereira will be joining the firm from Linklaters. Ereira, whose practice principally focuses on debt restructuring but also covers real estate finance, stressed and distressed

Lonsdale Capital Partners, a private equity firm focussed on the smaller end of the market, has made its third hire of the year with the appointment of Richard Pindar as an Associate.  Pindar joins Lonsdale Capital Partners from KPMG where he trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2014.

Excellere Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm specialising in partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams through recapitalisations and management buyouts, has hired Michael Geldart as Partner. David Kessenich, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Excellere Partners, says: “We are excited to welcome Michael to Excellere Partners. He is a strategic-minded, results-oriented

Cairngorm Capital has appointed Alex Bayliss and John Naylor-Leyland as Investment Directors, further bolstering the firm’s capacity for new investments. Bayliss brings extensive experience of investing in mid market manufacturing and business services companies. He joins from SEA Equity where he was a founding Partner and board member of portfolio

Andrew Cosslett has joined private equity firm Advent International as an Operating Partner. Cosslett will work closely with Advent’s Retail, Consumer and Leisure team to identify new investment opportunities across Advent’s global network, with a particular focus on the leisure sector. He will also be available to support Advent’s current and

Law firm Paul Hastings has appointed structured finance and capital markets specialist Paul Severs  as a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice ion London. Severs will be joining the firm from Berwin Leighton Paisner, where he is Head of Structured Debt and Capital Markets.   Severs has extensive experience in

CBO Investment Management (CBO IM), the Nigeria based investment management firm focused on African private equity, has appointed Gary Steinberg as the Head of its Advisory board and a member of the Investment Committee.  Steinberg joins CBO with immediate effect as he retires from his role as Chief of the