Hogan Lovells has recruited Xavier Doumen as a partner in the firm’s private equity practice in Paris. Doumen joined Hogan Lovells on 1 February 2012 from Willkie Farr & Gallagher where he worked on private equity and strategic M&A transactions. Doumen joins the Hogan Lovells Global Private Equity practice, which has
Private equity firm HIG Capital has opened an office in Rio de Janeiro and appointed Fernando Marques Oliveira as a Managing Director to lead its Brazil and Latin America team. Prior to joining HIG, Marques Oliveira was Managing Director and head of the Latin America team at General Atlantic (GA),
Commercial law firm EMW has appointed Jodi Tierney (pictured) as its new Head of Asset Based Lending (ABL), as part of substantial plans to expand its London office. Tierney joins from Francis Wilks & Jones LLP where she was Partner, having previously been a Senior Associate at Hammonds. She will head
General Atlantic LLC (GA) has appointed David Topper, a former Vice Chairman of JP Morgan and leader in its capital markets group, as a Special Advisor to the firm. Topper has nearly 30 years of capital markets and investment banking experience. He will be working closely with GA’s portfolio group
International law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is to add two partners to its London funds practice. Tim Pearce and Ian Meade will join the firm from Simmons & Simmons. Their arrival at Akin Gump will significantly expand the firm’s London practice which advises leading funds and
The middle-market, private equity buyout fund, GenNx360 Capital Partners, has added Jerod A Pierce to its Management Company’s operating team. Pierce will focus on operational value creation, operational due diligence and will work hand-in-hand with portfolio management to both identify operational value creation opportunities and to implement them. He will
Blackstone Accelerates Growth, a statewide initiative involving the Maine Technology Institute, the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development and the University of Maine, has hired John Voltz as its Executive Director. A resident of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Voltz joins the initiative from Jane Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based corporate advisory
Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus, has named nine professionals as new managing directors, including the promotion of seven principals and the hiring of two new professionals. These individuals work in various offices around the world in the areas of Capital Markets, Consumer, Industrial and Services (CIS), Energy, Fundraising/Investor Relations,
The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) has appointed Emma Thorpe as Head of Communications. Thorpe is responsible for the EVCA’s public relations and membership communications and will be based in Brussels and London. During 2011, Thrope advised the EVCA on strategic communications and issues management. Additional clients
Former Skandia and Cofunds CEO, Brett Williams (pictured), has joined a newly established private equity firm as a Founder Partner. The entrepreneurial hub, Lime Tree Investment Partners LLP (Lime Tree), invests in and facilitates the development of fast growth companies across the financial services, clean technology, real estate, biotechnology and
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