BGF (Business Growth Fund) is continuing to expand its team across the North of England with the appointment of Rob Johnson who will be based in the firm’s Leeds office. Johnson joins BGF from Deloitte where he worked across mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and restructuring. Johnson joins BGF’s 60-strong
Laurie Coben (pictured) has joined Everocore’s Investment Banking business as a Senior Managing Director. Coben will lead Evercore's efforts in the Power and Utilities sector in New York. Coben was most recently a Managing Director and the Global Co-Head of the Energy & Power Investment Banking Group at Bank of
Venture capital (VC) attorneys, Frank Grant, and Ryan Azlein (pictured), are to join Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth as shareholders and will lead the expansion of the firm Venture Capital, Start-Ups and Emerging Companies practice groups. Prior to joining Stradling, Grant spent 10 years in Silicon Valley and 8 years
Specialist technology start-up fund Force Over Mass Capital has appointed Filip Coen as its chief operating officer. Joining from JPMorgan, in his new role as COO Coen will be responsible for business development and operational excellence, with immediate effect. “We are delighted to welcome Filip to the Force Over Mass
Mid-market private equity house LDC has strengthened its UK-wide team with the appointment of three Investment Directors. Steve Phillips and Victoria Marcer join the London and Nottingham teams respectively, with Tanya Thompson joining the Value Enhancement Group, supporting LDC’s commitment to invest in GBP1.2billion of equity into Britain’s mid-market businesses
Bruno Montanari has been appointed Partner within the Venture Capital team at Omnes Capital focusing on Life Sciences sector. The team has also been strengthened with the arrival of Claire Poulard as Life Sciences Analyst. With 60 business disposals including 14 IPOs carried out in 15 years, Omnes Capital’s Venture
Eze Castle Integration has hired Maria DeSousa (pictured) as its chief administrative officer. DeSousa is an experienced technology and financial services industry executive with more than 15 years of finance, operations and technology expertise. Prior to joining Eze Castle Integration, DeSousa was director of finance, M&A at Factset Research Systems,
Amauri G Costa and Scott Gluck have Duane Morris’ Corporate Practice Group, as a partner and special counsel respectively, in the firm’s Washington, DC office. Costa adds to Duane Morris’ corporate law capabilities in Washington, DC, as well as nationally and internationally, particularly with respect to Latin America. He joins
Victory Park Capital (VPC), an asset management firm focused on middle market debt and equity investments, has appointed Karrie Truglia as vice president in New York City to further develop the firm’s debt capital markets activity. VPC has also promoted three investment professionals to vice president and hired four new associates
HIG Capital has promoted Andrew Scotland (pictured) to Managing Director of Bayside Capital, the distressed debt and special situations affiliate of HIG Scotland joined HIG Capital in 2013 as a Principal. He is based in HIG’s London office and has over 17 years of investment banking and distressed investment experience
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