Align Capital Partners (ACP) gas sold its interest in WilliamsMarston, a specialist in providing complex accounting, tax and valuation advisory services, to Kelso & Company (Kelso). Since ACP’s initial investment in July 2020, the Firm has achieved transformational growth under the leadership of WM’s Co-Founders, Landen Williams and Jon Marston. During the last two years, WM’s team increased to more than 225 of the industry’s leading professionals. Growth was driven by expanding existing client relationships, adding new clients through best-in-class client service and completing six add-on acquisitions. These acquisitions helped broaden the Firm’s service offering and helped WM add top

Cole-Frieman & Mallon (CFM), an investment management law firm, has appointed Garret Filler as a partner. Filler comes to CFM after most recently serving as President of Allometrics, a startup at the intersection of gaming and finance.

Tonka Bay Equity Partners (Tonka Bay) has appointed Shawn Cappello as a director. In this role, Cappello will assist in the execution of the firm’s overall investment activities. Prior to joining Tonka Bay, Cappello was a senior director of corporate development at Albertsons Companies Inc, a national grocery retailer. Previously, he was a vice president at Cerberus Capital Management, an operationally-focused private equity firm. While at Cerberus, Cappello was responsible for all aspects of the private equity investment lifecycle, including buy side and sell side deal execution, and portfolio management.   Before Cerberus, Cappello worked at Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking

HCI Equity Partners (HCI), a leading lower middle market private equity firm that partners with founder-owned distribution, manufacturing and B2B service companies, has promoted Lisa Costello to tiger newly-created position of chief administrative officer (CAO), and Amy Stremmel to chief financial officer (CFO). Costello joined HCI in 2004 and will continue to serve as the firm’s chief compliance officer. As CAO, she will lead HCI’s administrative and compliance operations and play a key leadership role within the firm. Prior to this role, Costello served as HCI’s CFO for more than a decade and has been a member of the Board

Blackstone (NYSE: BX) has expanded the footprint of its Corporate Private Equity business through a new team based in San Francisco – building on the firm’s existing strong presence in its San Francisco office across its other business units. Sachin Bavishi, a senior managing director, will relocate to San Francisco to lead and establish Blackstone Private Equity’s West Coast presence, along with other existing and new team members. Bavishi was previously based in New York and has been a member of Blackstone’s Private Equity team since 2013, focusing on investment opportunities in Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT). He has played

Bee Partners, a deep tech pre-seed venture capital firm, has appointed Austin Grisham as Head of Platform. Grisham is based in Colorado and will join Kira Noodleman, Partner, in the Denver based office. Grisham is a two-time founder, initially establishing a boutique agency in 2016 focused on storytelling, content creation and brand strategy. Next, he founded an agricultural startup based in Rwanda working to integrate sustainable agriculture and grow supply chains for larger consumer brands in the US for makeup, food production and other consumables. Additionally, he owned/operated a Whole Foods CPG company from 2019-2020. Austin joins Bee Partners after

Peak Rock Capital (Peak Rock), a middle-market private equity firm, has made a number of promotions and new hires this summer, as the firm continues to expand the depth and experience of its private equity, credit and real estate teams. Meredith Jonker, Carrie Pisarczyk, and Reed Westerman have been promoted to vice president, and will continue to play critical roles with their portfolio company relationships. Joe Garigliano and David Wolfish have been promoted to principal within the private equity group. In their roles, both have successfully partnered with portfolio companies on value creation initiatives across the investment portfolio.  Constantine Tujios,

Ares Private Markets Fund (APMF) has appointed Barry Miller as its chief executive officer, effective 11 August, 2022.  Miller is currently a partner in the Ares Secondary Solutions Group, where he focuses on private equity secondaries. Miller has 24 years of experience across private equity and secondary investing. APMF is a registered, continuously offered, non-traded, closed-end fund. Leveraging the strength of the global Ares platform, which had approximately $334 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2022, and the 30-year history of Ares’ Secondary Solutions Group, the Fund intends to invest in a diversified portfolio of private equity

Perwyn has appointed Liam Coleman as an associate. Coleman will be based in Perwyn’s London office and will work primarily in the firm’s private equity team. This is the fifth hire Perwyn has made this year as the business continues to expand its operations in both London and Europe. Coleman joins Perwyn from Bank of America Securities, where he began his career in 2019 within the UK & Ireland Investment Banking team. In his role at Bank of America Securities, Coleman worked on a number of high profile transactions, including Kerry Group’s $1.0 billion acquisition of Niacet and the Issa

LLR Partners has promoted Ryan Goldenberg, Michael Pantilione and Zack Sigal to partner. The trio has a combined 30-plus years as members of the LLR team. Goldenberg has helped build LLR’s fintech and payments investment practice since joining in 2016. His current and former boards include Archer, Celero Commerce, DaySmart, Midigator, ParkHub and PCS Retirement, and he previously worked with eOriginal. Prior to joining LLR, Goldenberg was a vice president at Houlihan Lokey in the Private Growth Equity Capital practice. Previously, he served as an associate at Updata Partners and Kamylon Capital. Ryan began his career at Houlihan Lokey, assisting