Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has today announced the appointment of Chris Robinson to its European Private Equity team.Robinson joins as a Senior Investment Director in the European co-investment group, following seven years at Cinven where he invested across a range of sectors, notably Healthcare and Food/Ingredients, and represented Cinven on the Boards of several portfolio companies. Robinson began his career in investment banking after graduating from the University of Cambridge.   ASI, which manages EUR11 billion in private equity investments, has been partnering with lead investors on increasingly complex mid-market co-investments and GP-led secondaries in recent years. Recent examples include

Behrman Capital portfolio company Pelican Products, a specialist in the design and manufacture of high-performance protective cases, temperature-controlled packaging systems and advanced portable lighting systems, has named Phil Gyori the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Gyori has served as Group President of Pelican since joining in 2016. He succeeds Lyndon Faulkner, who becomes Executive Chairman after serving as Chief Executive Officer since 2006.   Grant G Behrman, Managing Partner of Behrman Capital, says: “We are delighted that Phil Gyori will serve as the new CEO of Pelican Products. Phil is a distinguished and outstanding executive who has been instrumental to

DLA Piper has appointed private equity (PE) lawyer Piero Carbone as a partner in its Corporate practice, based in London.Carbone will be joining the firm in September from McDermott Will & Emery, where he has been a partner since 2016.   Carbone’s experience spans the full private equity spectrum. He advises sponsors on buyouts, public-to-privates, growth and venture investments as well as buy-and-build transactions. He also advises fund managers on multi-jurisdictional fundraisings. His clients include US and European private equity firms and fund managers focusing on a variety of industries, including financial services, real estate, technology, hospitality, healthcare and consumer

Kainos Capital (Kainos), a food and consumer-focused private equity firm, has promoted Catherine Anne Prideaux, Christina Wang and John Hudgens were promoted from Associate to Senior Associate, effective 1 August.Andrew Rosen, Managing Partner, says: “The professionals on the Kainos investment team are critical to the firm’s ability to drive growth and value across the Kainos portfolio. Since joining the firm in 2018, Catherine Anne, Christina and John have demonstrated exceptional work ethic and technical development as private equity professionals. We are excited to recognise their contributions not only to the execution of our investment strategy, but also to the culture

YFM Equity Partners (YFM) is continuing its focus on growth stage investment, particularly in the technology sector, with the appointment of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Victor Christou who takes up the new position of partner, head of growth, at the specialist small business investor that operates across the UK.  Christou began his career as an academic at the University of Oxford before launching a spin-off business, Opsys, in 1997 that pioneered OLED display technology. After selling the business in 2002, he founded Aborescent and then moved to Oxford Capital Partners in 2005 where he was a senior investment manager before joining