Eric Helenek has joined Cowen’s equity capital markets group as managing director. Based in New York, Helenek will report to Grant Miller, Cowen’s head of equity capital markets. “I am very pleased to welcome Eric to our team,” says Miller. “Eric has extensive experience in the origination and
Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), a professional services firm, has appointed Mike Trenouth as a managing director for its expanding European private equity practice in London. Trenouth’s (pictured) appointment comes against the backdrop of an increasingly complex and competitive deal environment in Europe, where there is rising demand for a
The Park Hill Group, a division of Blackstone, has appointed Pablo Calo as a managing principal in the firm’s secondary advisory business based in London. This business delivers liquidity and capital solutions to private equity investors and managers. Calo has spent the last 16 years dedicated to private
Charles Steel has joined the Ares private equity group as a managing director, based in London. “We are pleased to welcome Charles to Ares Management,” say David Kaplan and Bennett Rosenthal, senior partners of Ares and co-heads of the firm’s global private equity activities. “Charles’ extensive experience investing across
Guy Peters has been hired by XCap Securities as head of corporate with immediate effect. Peters has more than 20 years of deal experience and worked on a wide variety of main market and AIM IPOs, takeovers and fund-raisings. After qualifying as a lawyer with Herbert Smith he moved
ML Capital has appointed Dr Dermot F Smurfit as chairman of the ML Capital Group of Companies, effective 23 April 2013. Cyril Delamare, chief executive, says: "Dr Dermot F Smurfit’s appointment will further strengthen and help ML Capital build on the foundations put in place by the existing management team. He
International investment bank Altium has promoted Andy Clarke to director and Elin Sion to assistant director. Clarke (pictured) joined Altium in 2009 from Grant Thornton, having previously worked at LDC and KPMG. He specialises in private equity transactions and general mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Sion has been at
Holly Neavill and Louisa Watt have joined Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s financial restructuring department as partners. They will be based in the firm’s London office. Gregory Petrick (pictured), managing partner of the firm’s London office and co-chair of the financial restructuring department, says: “The European market continues to
Playnation, the supplier of amusement and leisure machines backed by Palatine Private Equity, has appointed Pets at Home founder Anthony Preston as non-executive chairman. The appointment comes after the Manchester-based private equity firm backed the management buyout of Playnation, formerly the amusement and leisure division of London-based Inspired Gaming,
Joseph W Bartlett has joined law firm McCarter & English as special counsel in the firm’s corporate, securities and financial institutions practice in New York. A recognised pioneer of the national private equity and venture capital bar, Bartlett (pictured) contributed to the original models for private equity and fund
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