Quantum Energy Partners (Quantum), a provider of capital to the global energy and energy transition industry, has appointed Heriberto (Heri) Diarte as a partner of Quantum Innovation Fund. Formed in 2017, Quantum Innovation Fund invests in transformative companies focused on climate technology, decarbonisation and sustainability. Diarte, who will be based in Silicon Valley, will work closely with the Quantum investment team to source, execute and support Quantum Innovation Fund’s growing portfolio.   The firm’s venture capital portfolio currently includes numerous rapidly growing, innovative companies like ChargePoint, a leading manufacturer of EV charging systems, Project Canary, a leading data analytics and

HSBC Asset Management (HSBC AM) has appointed Victoria Sharpe as Head of Real Assets, and Scott McClurg as Head of Private Credit for its alternatives division, HSBC Alternatives. Sharpe will be responsible for the strategic development and management of the real assets proposition which today consists of Direct Real Estate teams and Listed Infrastructure Equity teams. She will assume the role from Joanna Munro, who has been acting Head of Real Assets, in addition to her role as CEO, HSBC Alternatives. Sharpe joined in 2021 as Head of & CIO Real Estate, Asia-Pacific and will retain these responsibilities in her

Macquarie Asset Management has appointed Peter Glaser as Global Head of its Private Credit and Asset Finance team. The firm’s private credit offering spans solutions for clients across infrastructure, real estate, and structured credit, with $11.4 billion of assets under management. Macquarie Asset Management also invests in movable transportation assets via its $1.7 billion asset finance business, leasing aircraft, rotorcraft, and rail assets. Glaser brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to Macquarie, joining in London from Alcentra where he served as Head of European Direct Lending and Portfolio Manager for Alcentra’s European Direct Lending Funds, responsible for ~$10 billion in

IFM Investors, a global investment manager owned by Australian pension funds, has appointed Luba Nikulina as its inaugural chief strategy officer to lead the development of IFM’s global strategy with a focus on private markets solutions. Based in London and joining the global executive team, Nikulina, who has over 25 years of investment industry experience, joins from WTW (previously known as Willis Towers Watson), where she was Global Head of Research, advising some of the world’s largest asset owners on strategy, governance and investments, managing a team of over 100 analysts. During her time at WTW, she worked in London

Baker Botts, an international energy, technology, and life sciences law firm, has appointed Omar Iqbal as a partner in the firm’s corporate department in Riyadh. Iqbal’s core practice is transactional, focusing on private equity, M&A and joint ventures, combining both significant cross-border experience with extensive local Saudi Arabia expertise, having worked in both private practice and inhouse with Samba Financial Group.   He has practiced for over 14 years in the Gulf Cooperation Council region and has developed long-standing relationships with a number of international and local investment banks and leading Saudi Arabian family offices.   The appointment of Iqbal,

Fund administrator Saltgate SA has appointed Jean-François Flamant to its board in Luxembourg. Flamont joined Saltgate as its head of depositary last year. He has over two decades’ experience in financial services and oversees Saltgate’s depositary servicing for fund managers to help drive the firm’s client service.   Flamont joined Saltgate from TMF Group, where he was head of depositary services. He also spent 20 years as an alternative funds specialist at ABN Amro and BGL BNP Paribas. Saltgate launched in 2007 to provide fund administration and accounting services for private equity, debt, and real estate asset classes.

AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a private equity firm specialising in aerospace, defence & government services, space, power & utility services, and specialty industrial markets, a has promoted Tyler Rowe to principal, and Austen Dixon, Graham Kantor and Eugene Kim to vice presidents, effective immediately. Rowe is a member of AEI HorizonX team, the venture capital investment platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company, where he. helps identify, evaluate and lead unique venture investments across all of AEI HorizonX’s target markets. Focused on early-stage investing for the last 12 years, he holds a BA from the University of Alabama. Dixon,

L Catterton Asia Acquisition Corp (LCAAC) has appointed Sanford Litvack to its Board of Directors, effective 10 August, 2022. John Sculley has stepped down as an independent director of the Company. With over six decades of commercial litigation and corporate operations experience in both the private and public sectors, Litvack adds a rare combination of legal acumen and business insights to LCAAC’s Board. He is currently a partner of leading boutique trial and arbitration law firm Chaffetz Lindsey as well as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.  Formerly, Litvack was senior counsel in the litigation department at

King & Spalding has added a five-lawyer corporate and private equity team, led by partner Peter Memminger, to its Corporate, Finance & Investments (CFI) practice in Frankfurt. Memminger’s practice focuses on M&A, corporate and litigation work on behalf of private equity funds, family offices as well as large corporates. He has also represented clients on distressed M&A, restructuring, insolvency and ESG matters and acted both on the plaintiff and defendant side on various corporate disputes in Germany.  Memminger founded his own boutique firm in January 2017 which focuses on complex corporate and litigation matters. Prior to establishing his own firm,