Consonance Capital Partners, a US healthcare-focused private equity firm, has promoted Sapna T Jethwa, who joined the business in 2012 and has been involved in the firm’s investments in Enclara Health, Turn-Key Health, and Psychiatric Medical Care, to partner – business development.

Paul Hastings has appointed M&A lawyer Jon Kubek as partner in the firm’s New York office. Kubek advises corporations on matters involving mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs, joint ventures, proxy contests, and shareholder activism defence. Some of Kubek’s significant client representations include Innoviva, Inc, in its acquisition of La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company; Choice Hotels International in its acquisition of Radisson Hotel Group Americas and extended-stay brand WoodSpring Suites; Resideo Technologies in its acquisition of First Alert; Allied World in its acquisition by Fairfax Financial; and Protective Life in its acquisition of the individual life and annuity business of Liberty Life.   

Dan Pogue has joined Catalyst Partners, a private equity anchor and seeding platform backed by Moelis Asset Management, as a vice president. Pogue joins Catalyst from Asset Consulting Group (ACG), an investment consulting firm based in St Louis. 

HarbourVest Partners has appointed Javier Rodriguez as a managing director and head of client operations to oversee integration of the firm’s client experience, investment accounting, treasury, portfolio analytics, and performance measurement teams. Rodriguez joins HarbourVest from Goldman Sachs & Co, where he spent almost 20 years in various roles throughout APAC, EMEA, and the Americas. Most recently he was a managing director, and head of RIA custody operations and client experience. In that role, Rodriguez was responsible for executing a multi-year scale and product roadmap, reducing operational costs, and improving the client experience through the deployment of new technologies and

Collas Crill has appointed Chantelle Day as Counsel in its Corporate, Finance and Funds team in Cayman. Day trained and worked in a large Cayman Islands law firm for the first 12 years of her legal career and has spent four years practicing law in Dublin and London.

Jacmel Growth Partners, a minority-owned, private investment firm focused on working with midsize companies, has appointed Mark Hardaway to the newly-created role of chief financial officer (CFO). 

Innova Capital, a private equity firm focused on Central and Eastern Europe, has promoted Andrzej Pietrzak to partner, boosting the firm’s position in the e-commerce, logistics, and tech-enabled B2B sectors as it seeks investment opportunities through the recently launched Innova/7 fund. Pietrzak has been with Innova since 2013, and prior to becoming a partner, was a managing director at the company. Over the last few years, among things, he has overseen the development of INELO Group and PEKAES and was responsible for handling Innova’s exit from both investments. He has also been involved in some of Innova’s consumer goods investments,

McGuireWoods has expanded its private equity team with appointment of partners Richard Starling and William Herrfeldt, who are highly regarded for their work advising clients on investment fund formation matters.  Starling and Herrfeldt advise fund sponsors on the organization, negotiation, structuring and operation of private investment funds, as well as regulatory and internal governance issues, and they advise institutional investors with respect to those and other alternative investments. Starling, who joins in Charlotte, works with a wide variety of private funds and related products, including buyout, venture capital, real estate and hedge funds; fund of funds; separately managed accounts; managed