Jones Day’s Düsseldorf office, opened in March 2012, has added a banking and finance team led by Claudia Leyendecker. Leyendecker and her team join a number of other lawyers who have moved to Jones Day’s Düsseldorf office in the past few months, including the transactional team of Dr Ulrich Brauer,

International law firm CMS has announced the new leadership structure for its UK and CEE private equity sector. James Grimwood (pictured), recently announced as the global CMS PE leader, will also lead the UK PE sector team. He is a partner in the corporate department with extensive experience in advising

Dallas-based private equity firm glendonTodd Capital has appointed David Novak as president at Chemical Information Services (CIS). John Harris stepped down as chief executive of CIS on 31 October to return to his role as an operating partner at glendonTodd. Novak (pictured) will report to Todd Furniss, chairman of the

Highland Capital Partners has strengthened its consumer internet and digital media practice with the appointment of Manish Patel as a partner in its Menlo Park office. After spending nearly seven years at Google building the products and teams responsible for many of the company’s key product offerings, from AdWords and

Bindi Karia has joined Silicon Valley Bank’s UK branch to lead the firm’s efforts in the early stage “accelerator” space. Karia (pictured), currently the venture capital/emerging business lead at Microsoft UK, will begin the newly created role in January 2013, reporting into Phil Cox, head of EMEA and India and

The Institutional Limited Partners Association has appointed Michael Mazzola, managing director, head of alternative investments at MetLife, to the position of chairman of ILPA’s board of directors. "I am pleased to have the opportunity to chair the ILPA and to support the organization as it expands its global reach,” says

DN Capital, an early stage and growth capital investor in the digital media, e-commerce, software and mobile industries in Europe and North America, has appointed Simon Greenman as venture partner UK and John Helm as venture partner in Germany.  In addition, Jonathan Pell and Jaclyn Schnau join the industry advisory