Birch Equity Partners, a new private equity firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, has launched to focus on investing in established expansion-stage businesses with future growth potential. Birch Equity Partners is a partnership between Holcombe Green, Jr, Vincent M Oddo and Dr R Kirby Godsey. "Birch Equity Partners has been
Private equity firm GenNx360 Capital Partners has appointed Otis Spencer, Jr as operating partner effective 2 January. Spencer reports to Lloyd G Trotter, founding and managing partner. Spencer will have the primary directive of creating value by driving operational execution within the GenNx360 portfolio. In addition, he will work
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has named Julius Genachowski as managing director and partner in the US buyout team. He will focus on investments in global technology, media and telecom, including Internet and mobile. Genachowski (pictured) is returning to the private sector after serving as chairman of
Deutsche Bank’s fund services business has appointed Kelly Gouveia as a vice president and head of its trustee business in Jersey. 

 The fund services business in Jersey is a full fund service provider, providing third party fund administration, trustee and transfer agency services to hedge funds, private equity, real
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has promoted eight attorneys to the partnership, effective 1 January 2014. Rob Boller is in the firm’s litigation practice. He represents companies, partnerships and individuals in a variety of litigation and criminal/regulatory matters, with a particular focus on disputes arising out of complex financial
Doug Smith has joined Insight’s corporate insurance consultancy business. Smith has held previous senior positions as chairman of Marsh’s private equity practice and latterly as non-executive deputy chairman of Willis’ M&A practice. Smith will team up again with former Corporate Risk plc colleague Colin Paterson, the managing director and
Private equity firm HarbourVest Partners has promoted Julie Eiermann and Tim Flower to managing director. Eiermann is one of HarbourVest’s longest-serving employees, joining the firm in 1993. During her 20 years with the firm, she has built the portfolio analytics team into one of HarbourVest’s most valuable assets. The portfolio analytics
Commercial law firm CMS Hasche Sigle is closing its Dresden office. The current head, Dr Helmut Schwarz, is leaving the firm at the end of the year. Schwarz is joining Hamburg-based partnership CADMUS and will work in both cities in the future. Dr Hubertus Kolster, managing partner of
Catella’s president and chief executive Johan Ericsson has been appointed as the new head of corporate finance, one of the two operating segments in the company. The role will be shared with a person who is to be recruited. The dual leadership structure will enable Catella to focus both on
Ingenious, the UK alternative investment and advisory group, has strengthened its clean energy division with five new appointments, including Helen Wade as a senior investment director. In addition, the firm has appointed one investment director, one investment manager and two investment associates. The appointments bring Ingenious Clean Energy’s team of investment
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