Rutland Partners, a turnaround and restructuring investor, has appointed James Barrington-Wells as investment executive. Barrington-Wells is a graduate of biological science from Edinburgh University who qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte in 2009 and subsequently worked in their audit and corporate finance divisions for three years. During this time
Joey T Shabot has joined the law firm Greenberg Traurig as of counsel in its Tel Aviv office. Shabot, the fourth attorney in recent months to move to Greenberg Traurig in Israel, focuses his practice on M&A, financing, and other corporate transactions. He previously practiced with the New York firm
Bluebox, the recently launched advisory business that prepares businesses for sale using a highly structured pre-sale planning programme, has appointed Sam Archer as corporate executive. Archer joins from Bridges Ventures. Archer says: “With an estimated 70 per cent of business sales collapsing before they reach legal completion, the corporate finance
Actis, the pan-emerging markets private equity firm, has appointed James Smith as director in the firm’s value creation group. Smith will be based in the Johannesburg office and takes up his post with immediate effect. Smith will work with Actis portfolio companies in Africa, seeking to add value by driving
Philippe Berteaux has joined Marvell as a full equity partner to launch a new insolvency and financial restructuring practice. In 2007 Berteaux founded his own boutique firm, relying on an experience of more than 15 years in the corporate recovery sector, having started his career with experts such as Jean-Louis
Ludgate Investments, a private equity investor in resource efficiency businesses, has appointed Bernard Bulkin and Ekaterina Sharashidze as non-executive directors with immediate effect. Both Bulkin and Sharashidze (pictured) will serve on Ludgate’s investment committee and join a team which has raised and deployed over GBP75m in 25 growth companies over
CDC Group plc, the UK’s development finance institution, has made a series of new appointments designed to strengthen its investment teams and enable the company to start to implement its new strategy. Holger Rothenbusch has been appointed as Managing Director of the new Debt and Structured Finance Team and starts
Energy Investors Funds (EIF), a private equity firm focused on the independent power and electric utility industry, has appointed Lydia Blandy as an associate in the firm’s San Francisco office. Blandy, who was previously a member of the investor relations department of Ironwood Capital Management, has a BA from Dartmouth
AQR Capital Management, an independent alternative investment management firm with USD54.5bn under management, has established a London office. Based in Greenwich, Connecticut, AQR has a systematic and disciplined approach to asset allocation, portfolio construction and risk control. Its offerings range from traditional benchmark-oriented long-only strategies to absolute return alternative strategies.
KPMG, the audit, tax and advisory firm, is continuing its investment in its alternative investment funds practice by bringing on board several new partners and managing directors. “KPMG is committed to becoming the market leader in serving the alternative investments industry and our latest additions to the team demonstrate our
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