TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has appointed Jeffrey A Del Papa as a Senior Vice President in the Services Group.  He will focus on recapitalisations, management-led buyouts and growth capital investments in business services companies. Del Papa joins TA from Thoma Bravo, where he served as a

Octopus has appointed George Whitehead (pictured) as venture partner manager. Whitehead joins from NESTA Investments where he held the position of Business Development Director for their GBP50 million fund and supported a number of programmes targeted at early stage growth businesses. These programmes ranged from investments in company accelerators like Springboard, Seedcamp, Design

International law firm Stephenson Harwood has appointed James Tinworth as a corporate partner to the firm’s funds practice in London. Tinworth joins from Simmons & Simmons LLP in a further boost to the corporate funds practice, following the appointment of Patrick Mousset in Paris from Mayer Brown in July.  

Rockefeller Financial has appointed Jeffery Moy as Head of Private Equity with effect from 1 August, 2011. Moy will be responsible for oversight of Rockefeller Financial’s private equity and venture capital program, including the selection and review of third-party managers, the review of client private equity portfolios and new business

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has appointed Dan Haxby as Head of Realisations within RBS’s Strategic Investment Group (SIG). SIG is responsible for all aspects of the equity positions that the bank takes through debt for equity swaps and new money investments in restructuring situations. It sits within RBS’s Global Restructuring

Private equity fund-of-funds manager SL Capital Partners has haired Thomas Chevalier as Investment Director, bringing the total number of investment professionals at the firm to 20 – 16 in Edinburgh and a further four based in Boston, USA. In his new role, Chevalier will provide guidance on legal and regulatory issues,

The chief executives of some of Britain’s best-known companies have agreed to lend their expertise to the new Business Growth Fund (BGF) as non-executive board members. Audrey Baxter, the CEO of Baxters Food Group, Stephen Murphy, Group CEO of Richard Branson’s Virgin group of companies, Neil Johnson, Chairman of aviation

Composition Capital Partners has expanded its European deal team with the appointment of Danish national Julie Helweg as of 1 August 2011.   Helweg’s role within the team will be to manage existing investments within Composition’s Europe Funds I & II, and to undertake research & due diligence for the

Proskauer has expanded its global Private Investment Funds Group and London office with the addition of Nigel van Zyl, Kate Simpson and Oliver Rochman as Partners. Van Zyl and Rochman will join the firm from SJ Berwin, and Simpson will join from Kirkland & Ellis. They bring deep experience in