Dechert LLP has appointed private equity fund lawyer Sam Kay as a partner in the firm’s financial services and investment management practice in London. With over 25 years of experience advising on investment funds, Kay specialises in fund formation work for a wide range of private funds and asset management clients in the private equity, private debt/credit, infrastructure, and real estate sectors. He also regularly works on GP-led transactions and secondaries (both buy-side and sell-side), carried interest arrangements and co-investment schemes. Kay has been recognised as a “Global Leader” for private fund formation by Who’s Who Legal and ranked in

Multinational law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has added to its private equity practice in London with the appointment of leveraged finance specialist Ed Aldred as a partner. Aldred joins from Linklaters where he spent over 20 years – the past five as co-head of the firm’s financial sponsor leveraged finance practice. Aldred has expertise across the spectrum of debt products and in several key financial jurisdictions, including London, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore, with a particular emphasis on leverage finance and loan/bond structures.  

Citigroup Inc has appointed Robin Rousseau and Barry Weir as co-heads of the company’s mergers and acquisitions business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to a report by Bloomberg, with the pair replacing Alison Harding-Jones who is leaving the business. The report cites an internal memo as revealing that Rousseau, who joined from Deutsche Bank AG in 2020, will remain in Paris, and Weir, a JPMorgan Chase & Co veteran who moved to Citigroup last year, will remain based in London.  According to his LinkedIn profile, Rousseau, has been a vice chairman of Citigroup’s EMEA investment bank, and

Angeles Equity Partners, a specialist lower middle-market private equity investment firm focused on underperforming industrial businesses, has appointed Adam Lerner as an operating partner at Angeles Operations Group. 

International Venture Capital investment firm Runa Capital has made two additions to its team with the appointments of Stu Libby as a venture partner and Max Corbani as a senior associate. As a serial startup founder, Libby was the CEO of Zipdrug, where Runa Capital was the company’s largest investor. Zipdrug was acquired by Anthem  in 2020, and after the successful exit, Libby became an investor in Runa. Before Zipdrug, Libby was co-founder and chief revenue officer of Circulate (FKA Solve Media), which was acquired by LiveRamp in 2016. He previously worked for DoubleClick and Google. Before joining Runa, Corbani

Keensight Capital, a private equity manager dedicated to pan-European growth buyout investments, has appointed Cindy Giraud as communications director. In her new role at Keensight, Giraud will manage and develop the firm’s global communications.  She will oversee both internal and external communications, including public relations, press relations, and digital communications.   Keensights says Giraud’s appointment will support the firm’s growth as a partner for fast-growing and profitable companies across technology and healthcare.      

Apex Group Ltd has appointed Anthony Alfonso as global head of valuation. Alfonso will be responsible for the group’s valuation advisory services for a wide range of investor types, including hedge funds, private equity and debt funds, venture capital, mutual funds, structured credit, family offices, pension funds as well as corporates, insurance companies, banking and other financial institutions. Apex Group’s Valuation Services provide periodic valuations for illiquid financial instruments such as equity, debt and derivatives to meet specific reporting requirements, throughout all stages of a fund’s lifecycle.    Alfonso has more than 25 years of financial services experience providing valuation