Sixpoint Partners (Sixpoint), a global investment bank serving the middle-market private equity industry, has promoted Ignacio Martín-Chocano to Managing Director and Vincent Molinari to Director. Martín-Chocano joined Sixpoint in 2016 and in 2020 opened its London office, where he focuses on the distribution and origination of fund opportunities in the UK and Western Europe. He previously worked in the Global Structured Solutions group at Citigroup, executing debt private placement transactions globally across the consumer, real estate, healthcare, and energy industries. Molinari joined Sixpoint Partners in 2021, bolstering the firm’s coverage of institutional investors in New York and New England. He

Munich Private Equity Partners (MPEP) is expanding its business development capabilities with the appointment of Sebastian Schwarzenegger as Co-Head of Business Development.  Schwarzenegger is responsible for acquiring and servicing institutional clients and sales partners with focus on the DACH region. In this position, Schwarzenegger will also contribute to the ongoing further development of MPEP’s institutional sales strategy.    Before joining Munich Private Equity Partners, Schwarzenegger was Executive Director at Edmond de Rothschild and responsible for servicing German and Austrian investors, ie private and commercial banks, insurance companies, pension funds, family offices and wealth managers. Prior to that, he worked for

Kantar Public has appointed Eric Salama as its Global Chair. The appointment follows the announcement on 1 September 2022, that Kantar Public is now a standalone, and fully purpose-led global evidence and advisory business, following its divestment from Kantar and sale to private equity firm Trilantic Europe. Salama knows the Kantar Public business intimately, given his 18-year history as the Global CEO of Kantar, where he grew the business from the ground up into an operation turning over $4bn in annual revenues. Alongside his new role at Kantar Public, Salama is also the Chair of the Board of Trustees for

Bregal Partners (Bregal), a private equity firm specialising in investments in consumer and multi-unit, food and beverage, and business services, has added three key hires to its team – Thomas Perkins as Managing Director of Portfolio Services, Kaitlin Sasson joins as Principal, and Daniel Ayeroff as Vice President. Perkins will be responsible for building out resources to support portfolio company management teams. He currently works closely with the management teams of TDBBS, Oggi Foods, and Ju-Ju-Be, and provides expertise on manufacturing, distribution and logistics, and process optimisation across both service and product businesses in the Bregal portfolio.  Prior to joining

YFM Equity Partners (YFM) is continuing to expand its team with investment associate Zach Francis joining the firm which has offices in London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Reading. Francis joins from Red Lion Group, a collection of boutique pubs and coaching inns, where he spent the last year working in the corporate development team. Prior to that, he spent ten years with wealth and accountancy services firm Smith & Williamson (now Evelyn Partners); having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the firm, he went on to work in its mergers and acquisitions division, latterly as an associate.   This latest