Crestbridge has appointed Paul Phelan as head of risk and compliance – Ireland, as the business continues to enhance its platform in Dublin. Phelan has over 24 years’ pf financial services experience specifically related to the administration and management of regulated multi-domiciled investment fund products.  Phelan, who is an approved person under fitness and probity requirements by the Central Bank of Ireland, joins Crestbridge Link Group where he had headed up the compliance function in Ireland.  Phelan holds a variety of certifications from the Institute of Bankers in Ireland, is a Licentiate of Compliance Institute, and holds fellowship status with

Dextra Partners, a multi-strategy private equity firm focused on the middle market, has hired five new team members across several functions. The new team members all previously worked together with Dextra’s six founding partners at their prior firm, GoldPoint Partners.  They new recruits are: Richard Hung – Principal, Investments; Alexander Krostich – Senior Associate, Investments; Gabriella Paradiso – Senior Associate, Investor Relations & ESG; Danielle Rounick – Director, Investor Relations & Business Development; and Leonidas Vasilakos – Vice President, Investments. Following the announcement of its formation earlier this year, Dextra has $2.7 billion in investable capital from a select group

Laub Capital, a distressed asset investment fund with a focus on investment in European non-performing loans, has appointed Andrea Novak as chief financial officer based in the firm’s Budapest office.  

Paul Hastings has appointed private equity lawyer Samantha McGonigle as a partner in the firm’s London office. McGonigle is a former private equity partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and co-founder of a PE firm that invests in growth-focused enterprise technology companies across Europe. Paul Hastings has grown its London office over the past 12 months with 10 lateral partners, including a Band 1 global finance team, top-ranked infrastructure and energy partners Jessamy Gallagher and Stuart Rowson, leading high-yield partner Patrick Bright, IP litigation partner Jason Raeburn, and private equity and M&A specialist Tom Cartwright, among others.  Globally, the

Global law firm Jones Day has appointed Ted Powers as a partner in the firm’s newly structured corporate practice in New York where he will primarily focus on advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. Powers has more than 20 years of experience practicing corporate law, including private and public mergers and acquisitions, asset and stock transactions, minority investments and general corporate and securities matters.  He has played a lead role in negotiating, managing and implementing a number of high-stakes private equity, M&A and corporate transactions for clients in a wide range of industries.   Powers earned his law

Bloom Equity Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm headquartered in New York City, has promoted Jeffrey Hsiang, who has more than 15 years of PE and investment banking experience, to partner.  Prior to joining Bloom a year ago, Hsiang held roles at Blackstone’s Private Equity Group, Diversis Capital and Lazard M&A.  In addition to Hsiang’s promotion, BJonathan Rosenblum has joined Bloom as an Associate from K1 Investment Management where he covered control investments in enterprise software companies, while Amanda Greenberg has joined the firman as operating partner from Vista Equity Partners.  Greenberg has two decades of experience as both an