Jolt Capital, a private equity firm specialising in European growth deeptech investments, has appointed Meriem Smida as Managing Director UK. She will report to Jean Schmitt, the firm’s Chairman and Managing Partner.

Quilvest Capital Partners, a global mid- and lower mid-market alternatives investment manager with over $7bn in AUM, has appointed John Eggleston as its first Global COO and Partner.

Boston-based private equity firm BayPine has appointed Migo Terjanian as a Partner and Head of Investor Relations. In his new role, Terjanian will lead the firm’s fundraising efforts and expand relationships with the global institutional investment community.

Global private markets asset manager HarbourVest Partners has appointed John Toomey as the firm’s sole Chief Executive Officer effective 1 October 2024, following news that Co-CEO Pete Wilson is to retire at the end of next year.

Private equity and private credit investment firm Clarion Capital Partners has appointed Jeff Sipos as General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer. Sipos previously worked at Clarion from 2011 to 2015.

Alternative asset manager Blue Owl Capital, which has $174bn in AUM across credit, GP strategic capital and real estate, has appointed Johann Santer as a Managing Director and Head of APAC Private Wealth, based in the company’s Hong Kong office.

Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Chris Hastings as a Partner in its financial services practice group in London. Hastings, who joins from Eversheds Sutherland, is a finance lawyer focused on leveraged and acquisition financing.

Law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher has opened a new office in Dallas, which will be supported by a team of seven Partners, three of whom have just joined the business – Tom Tippetts, Brandon McCoy and Chase Proctor.

Cap10, a specialist pan-European private equity firm based in London, has appointed Luca Bonanomi as Partner. Bonanomi has spent the last decade at Blackstone, most recently as a Managing Director in the firm’s private equity group.