Securities and investment banking firm Jefferies has appointed Kamlesh Bhatia as a managing director responsible for private placement origination within the firm’s equity capital markets group. Bhatia brings to Jefferies more than ten years of investment banking experience, including five years in the equity capital market groups at Piper Jaffray
Starwood Capital Group, a private equity firm focused on real estate and energy investing, is hiring Rodolfo Senra and Vitor Senra to open the firm’s first office in Brazil headquartered in Sao Paolo. As directors of Starwood Capital do Brasil, the two executives will be responsible for expanding Starwood’s presence
Investment banking firm Evercore Partners has appointed Lincoln C. Singleton as a managing director in the firm’s private funds group. Singleton will be based in Evercore’s New York office where he will be responsible for managing the group’s relationships with limited partners in the south-east and Texas. Previously, he was
Castle Harlan’s president Justin Wender has resigned from the firm and its associated companies, effective immediately. The New York private equity investment firm has appointed Howard Morgan and Bill Pruellage, two of its senior managing directors, as co-presidents. Morgan and Pruellage will assume all the responsibilities formerly handled by Wender.
The Blackstone Group has appointed Dr Robert Galvin as chief executive officer of Equity Healthcare. Equity Healthcare is Blackstone’s health management programme which aims to improve quality and contain costs in providing healthcare to the employees and their families of private equity portfolio companies. Currently Equity Healthcare encompasses 34 companies,
Okapi Partners, the proxy solicitation firm, has hired Geoff Sorbello as a managing director. Sorbello joins Okapi Partners from ISS, a division of RiskMetrics Group which is now a subsidiary of MSCI. While at ISS, Sorbello was responsible for providing governance services and advice, including M&A research, to the firm’s
Black Diamond Capital Management, an alternative asset management firm, has appointed Philip Raygorodetsky as managing director. Raygorodetsky is joining the firm immediately and will be based in Black Diamond’s Greenwich, Connecticut office. Raygorodetsky joins Black Diamond’s controlled distressed/private equity team, where he will work alongside the current senior team, including
Arsenal Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm that invests in middle market industrial, healthcare and financial services companies, has appointed Stephen M. McLean as a partner. McLean will strengthen Arsenal’s seven-member healthcare practice, help shape the sector investment strategy, and lead the sourcing, evaluation and management of investments.
Equity Risk Partners, an insurance brokerage and consulting firm focused exclusively on the needs of the private equity industry, has appointed Joseph Fitzpatrick as director – executive liability. Fitzpatrick will focus his efforts on the firm’s financial institutions practice group, specifically on the brokering and servicing of hedge funds, mutual
Law firm Dechert has appointed M. Holland West, a private funds and derivatives lawyer, as a partner in the financial services practice group in New York. West was previously at Shearman & Sterling, where he was the head of its global hedge fund, private equity, derivatives and structured finance practices.
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