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

A large group of finance and corporate attorneys from Nixon Peabody has joined Pillsbury’s New York office. Led by Mats Carlston, previously head of global finance at Nixon Peabody, who will now head Pillsbury’s leveraged finance team, the group enhances Pillsbury’s capabilities in the areas of leveraged finance, corporate trust,

Arthur J. Higgins, former chairman of the board of management of Bayer HealthCare, has joined The Blackstone Group’s dedicated healthcare group, Blackstone Healthcare Partners.  Higgins will join healthcare veterans Lodewijk de Vink and Doug Rogers in providing industry knowledge and expertise to private equity transactions. Blackstone Healthcare Partners is an

Jean-Marc Rivet-Fusil has been appointed head of the fund of funds team at BNP Paribas Private Equity. He is assisted by Stéphanie Egoian who has been promoted to chief investment officer.  Together, they will form the investment committee. Rivet-Fusil will be in charge of defining and implementing the fund of

The Chicago Corporation, an independent investment banking firm focused on serving middle-market companies, has appointed John A. "Jack” Wing as chairman emeritus. Wing served as chief executive officer and chairman of the board for The Chicago Corporation from 1981 until 1997 when the original company was sold to ABN Amro.

A group of investment banking veterans has launched Intrepid Investment Bankers, an advisory firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The Intrepid team brings over 100 years of mergers and acquisitions advisory experience from their prior roles as principals at Barrington Associates, a firm they built into a national middle market

Future Capital Partners, the GBP6bn alternative investment boutique, has hired Tim West as its deputy chief executive.  West joins from Babcock and Brown where he was head of the London office and chief operating officer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to Babcock & Brown, West was European

TA Associates, a growth private equity firm, has hired two staff members in its Boston office. Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan (pictured) has joined the firm as a senior vice president in the technology group, and Pamela Bliss Harris has joined TA as vice president – investor relations.   Saint-Aignan focuses on

Alexandra Dupont has joined BNP Paribas Private Equity as investment director responsible for the origination, realisation and follow-up of growth and transmission deals.  In addition, Nicolas Schwindenhammer (pictured) has been promoted to investment director.   Dupont was previously an investment manager at Cognetas and, before that, 21 Centrale Partners. She