Gwendolyn J. Wong has joined Silicon Valley Bank to manage credit approval and product development for SVB Private Client Services’ venture capital and private equity clients. SVB Private Client Services provides personal financing solutions to entrepreneurs, investors and senior executives within the industries it serves. "Our dedication to venture capital

Private equity firm Avista Capital Partners has formed Avista Capital Europe as part of its strategy to expand its European presence. Avista Capital Europe will be based in London and the firm has recruited a team of private equity professionals, Newton Aguiar, Allen Yurko, and Kunal Pandit, to form the

Dan Matthews has been appointed as an executive director of GE Capital’s European leveraged finance unit. Matthews will join the UK based leveraged finance origination team and will report into Paul Scott, managing director and head of sponsor coverage. Based in London, Matthews will be responsible for helping to grow

Neil Price has been appointed to head up the North West team at Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets acquisition finance, which provides leveraged finance to support private equity-backed transactions.  Price has a decade of experience at Lloyds Banking Group and joins from the acquisition finance team in London. During 2009, he

Law firm Kaye Scholer has appointed Andrew B. Harris, a private equity, M&A and corporate finance lawyer, as managing partner of its London office. Harris joins Kaye Scholer from DLA Piper, where he was a senior equity partner and served as head of its private equity practice.   Harris acts

Equity Risk Partners, an insurance brokerage and consulting firm focused on the private equity industry, has appointed William Monat as managing director – transactional products, effective immediately. Monat will be responsible for establishing the firm’s transactional products practice group and building its capabilities for developing and marketing products including representations

Hudson Securities has expanded its international capabilities to complement and support the growth of its cross-border investment banking group. Frank J. Drazka, who joined Hudson Securities last month as head of investment banking, leads the firm’s six-member cross-border investment banking group, which focuses on raising capital in the US market

Law firm Dechert has hired Thomas P. Vartanian, David L. Ansell and Robert H. Ledig as partners in the Washington, D.C. office. All three were previously partners at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, where Vartanian served as chair of the financial institutions transaction group.    Vartanian, Ansell, and Ledig