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Gresham recruits marketing manager

Gresham, the mid-market Private Equity firm, has appointed Michaela Ellison as its new marketing manager. Ellison will be based in the London office but will oversee marketing activity across Gresham’s four offices including Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol.   Eliison joins from mid-market accounting firm Grant Thornton where she spent three

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Future Capital Partners strengthens business development team

Future Capital Partners (FCP), the GBP6 billion alternative investment boutique, has appointed Anthony Rogers as Business Development Manager. Rogers will be responsible for raising awareness of and presenting FCP’s range of innovative investment products to financial advisers, accountants and tax planners in the South East region. Initially, Rogers will focus

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Rytter to head Dorsey & Whitney’s PE practice in New York

E Eric Rytter has joined the Corporate group in international law firm Dorsey & Whitney’s New York office as a Partner and Head of the Office’s Private Equity practice group. Rytter’s practice focuses on advising private equity funds, other financial sponsors, their portfolio companies, and international corporate entities on a

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O’Melveny expands global entertainment, sports and media practice

O’Melveny & Myers LLP is pleased to announce that prominent UK entertainment transactions lawyer Lisbeth “Libby” Savill will be joining O’Melveny & Myers LLP in August as a partner in the Entertainment, Sports and Media Practice. She will be based in O’Melveny’s London office.  Savill is the former head of Olswang

iCON Infrastructure appoints Macleod

iCON Infrastructure, the independent investment firm focused on investments in core infrastructure in Europe and North America, has appointed Iain Macleod as a partner, with effect from July 2012.   Macleod joins the iCON team that has led private institutional investment in European infrastructure since the early 2000s and has been

TPG Partner Vincenzo Morelli elected EVCA’s 29th chairman

The General Assembly of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) has elected Vincenzo Morelli (pictured), Partner Emeritus and Senior Advisor to global investment firm TPG, as its Chairman for the year to June 2013. Morelli has a long track record in management, particularly in helping struggling businesses

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Kaplan joins Debevoise & Plimpton

Robert B Kaplan, Co-Chief of the Asset Management Unit of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement, is to join Debevoise & Plimpton as a litigation partner resident in the firm’s Washington, DC office. In his role at the Asset Management Unit, Kaplan co-led a team of 75

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Morrison Foerster adds new head of private equity practice in New York

Jonathan M A Melmed has been appointed as head of Morrison & Foerster’s private equity practice in New York. He was previously a partner with Chadbourne & Park and head of that firm’s Canada practice. Melmed represents private equity funds and portfolio companies, along with hedge funds, public companies and investment

DC Advisory Partners appoints sector specialist to TMT Team

DC Advisory Partners has appointed Jack Dessay as an Executive Director in its Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) team. Bringing with him twelve years of sector experience, Dessay will join a dedicated European TMT team of twenty bankers.   Dessay’s broad advisory experience includes M&A, debt & equity raising, structured

Vice Chairman Scott A Schoen leaves Thomas H Lee Partners

Scott A Schoen (pictured) has stepped down as Vice Chairman of private equity firm Thomas H Lee Partners. He will remain a Senior Advisor to the firm. Schoen joined THL in 1986, served as Co-President of the firm from 2003 through 2009, and as Vice Chairman since then. He will

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