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International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has appointed James MacArthur as a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice. He will be based in Weil’s London office and will focus on private equity and M&A transactions in the infrastructure and real estate sectors.
MacArthur joins from Herbert Smith Freehills, where he is a partner. He has broad experience acting for both corporate and private equity sponsors across infrastructure and real estate.
At Weil, MacArthur will focus on boosting the Firm’s global private equity and M&A infrastructure and real estate offering across the US, Europe and Asia. He will specialise in
Pamplona Capital Management has raised USD1 billion for Pamplona TMT Fund I, a dedicated fund that will make equity investments in technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) companies.
Pamplona expects the fund to invest in 12 to 15 companies, the first of which, Dyn.
The fund will invest in high-growth companies in segments including cloud computing and SaaS companies, mobile platforms and services, and industrial technologies. The fund will consider both control and minority investments; buyouts and recapitalisations; and rollups and consolidations within its target sectors.
Pamplona Managing Partner John Halsted, says: “The creation of this USD1 billion dedicated
Norwest Equity Partners (NEP) and Norwest Mezzanine Partners (NMP), have hired Charles P Moorse to serve as the firms' in-house General Counsel.
In this role, Moorse will have responsibility for providing leadership, expertise and support on a wide range of legal matters.
NEP and NMP have consistently made successful investments and generated exceptional returns through a singular focus on building companies into industry leaders. With $5.5 billion of combined capital under management, NEP and NMP are affiliated investment firms with strategies focused on providing capital to middle market businesses. Both funds possess flexibility and breadth in their investment charters, giving
Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm specialising in financial and related business services companies, has named Steven C Pierson as President and Partner.
Pierson, who will start his duties at Lovell Minnick in June, comes to the firm from UBS, where he most recently served as the Head of FIG Investment Banking Americas and Global Head of Financial Technology & Services. He was also a member of the investment committee for the UBS FinTech Strategic Investment Group.
"On behalf of our partners, we are delighted to welcome Steve Pierson to Lovell Minnick, and to the already strong financial
Private equity corporate partner David Holdsworth and private equity tax partner Tim Lowe are to join the London office of Kirland & Ellis International from Linklaters.
“David and Tim are exceptionally talented lawyers with strong track records advising clients on a variety of international private equity transactions,” says Jeffrey C Hammes, Chairman of Kirkland’s Global Management Executive Committee. “We look forward to them joining the Firm and further strengthening our European transactional private equity practice in London.”
Holdsworth holds a bachelor of laws from the University of Edinburgh. He is recognised as a ‘Leading Individual’ in the ‘Corporate/M&A: high-end capability’
Polynt and Reichhold are to combine their businesses to created global coating and composite resins operation with over EUR2.1 billion (USD2.4 billion) in revenues.
Polynt-Reichhold will be invested into equally by Investindustrial and Black Diamond Capital Management (Black Diamond).
Credt fund manager GSO Capital Partners is providing the debt financing for the transaction which is subject to customary regulatory approvals and expected to close in the second half of 2016.
This combination further reinforces the Group’s leading position as a global vertically integrated specialty chemicals player, with significant presence both in Europe and North America, a strategy initiated by
Everest Re Group has launched the Alternative Solution Group at Everest Specialty Underwriters, offering transactional risk insurance as well as professional and management liability insurance on both a primary and excess basis to private equity firms and hedge funds.
Robert Clark has been appointed to the position of Vice President to head up this new unit. Robert joined Everest in late 2015 from Axis Insurance Company, where he was Vice President of the Private Equity Group. Prior to that, Robert worked for Moody’s Investor Service as an analyst for the P&C Insurance Team, which included responsibility for a portfolio of
Bryan, Garnier & Co, a pan-European Investment Bank focusing on growth companies, has appointed Pierre Kiecolt-Wahl as Managing Director, ECM, where he will lead Bryan, Garnier & Co’s equity capital markets efforts throughout Europe.
“Over the past 15 years, Pierre has gained significant experience in advising innovative growth companies and investors in our core sectors of expertise, dealing with a wide variety of situations in more than twenty different markets across Europe, Asia and the US,” says Greg Revenu, Managing Partner and co-founder of the group. “He adds critical insight and equity capital market expertise to our firm, so we
Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Colin Stirling as a senior business advisor in the Global Corporate Practice. Stirling was previously a partner at private equity fund manager Spirit Capital in Leeds.
Stirling has over 20 years’ experience in private equity investment. Having qualified as an accountant with KPMG, he moved into corporate finance, specialising in providing buy and sell side advice to private equity investors. Stirling then worked for NatWest Ventures and Aberdeen Asset Managers Private Equity, before participating in two management buy-outs to create private equity fund managers Bridgepoint and Spirit Capital.
Leeds private equity partner, Jonathan Jones,
Despite the significant changes made to European pension business models since the financial crisis, a more fundamental behavioural shift is needed to address the yawning gap that exists between the rhetoric of governance improvements in recent years and their reality on the ground.
That’s according to Sally Bridgeland and Professor Amin Rajan in their 300 Club paper entitled Governance practices: Bridging the gap between rhetoric and reality.
European pensions have made some notable improvements in governance practices, asset allocation and execution capabilities as the last decade demonstrated that the assumptions about risk and return underpinning the traditional asset allocation strategy
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