finnCap Group (finnCap) has appointed Leigh Webb to head its private equity sponsor coverage and expand its M&A advisory business across the mid-market private equity community. Webb has an extensive track record in private equity sponsor coverage and finnCapp says his arrival will further strengthen the Group’s offering in the mid-market advisory arena with private equity backed businesses, which make up such a significant portion of the growth company landscape. Webb joins finnCap from leading business advisory firm RSM where as an Associate Director he was a key member of the team focused on UK private equity sponsor coverage for

Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has made three senior appointments to its Luxembourg Private Equity team. Philippe Detournay has been appointed as Director, while Waqas Khan and Gianmaria Lombardo have been appointed as Associate Directors.   Detournay joins the Group from Luxembourg-based Axior, where he was an advisor and Non-executive Director. Prior to this, he spent 13 years as a Managing Director of Lone Star Funds, overseeing the operation of several European real estate and private equity fund structures across Europe.   Khan joins the Group following tenures with KPMG and PwC Luxembourg, where he led

Akin Gump has added two energy-focused transactional corporate and private equity partners, Shaun Lascelles and Simon Rootsey, to the team in the firm’s London office. Lascelles and Rootsey are expected to join Akin Gump from Vinson & Elkins in October.   Lascelles’s practice focuses on transactional public and private cross-border M&A, private equity and international joint ventures. He advises private equity firms, infrastructure investors and corporates regarding their complex, high-end transactions. Lascelles has particular experience in the oil & gas and energy sectors, often across emerging market jurisdictions, including Africa and Russia.   Rootsey’s practice focuses on transactional cross-border M&A

Tricor Group (Tricor), an Asian provider of integrated business, corporate, investor, human resources and payroll, corporate trust and debt services, has appointed Karen Cheung as Group Director of Business Development for Trust & Corporate Services based in Hong Kong. Reporting to Tricor’s Group Chief Commercial Officer, Cheung will be responsible for driving the development, promotion and sales for Tricor’s comprehensive range of corporate and private client solutions. Tricor’s Corporate and Trust Services group provides organisations and high net worth individuals (HNWIs) with practical solutions in corporate structuring, management as well as asset protection and succession planning.   Prior to joining

Sidley Austin has appointed Meng Ding as a partner in the firm’s China Corporate and Finance group in Hong Kong. Ding joins from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he was a partner in the firm’s Capital Markets practice group.   Ding has extensive experience in a broad spectrum of capital markets and M&A transactions, especially in the TMT, healthcare, financial institutions, hard-tech and other emerging technology fields. He has advised on numerous Hong Kong IPOs, US. IPOs and follow-on offerings, pre-IPO investments, U.S. public company going-private transactions, and Rule 144A and Regulation S bond offerings (investment grade and high-yield). He