FPE Capital (FPE), a specialist software and services growth investor into UK and Irish lower mid-market companies, has promoted Ben Cole to investment director and added further expanded its investment team with the appointment of Harry Gill as investment manager. Cole has been with FPE since 2019, when he joined to lead the firm’s Origination activities and Gill joins the investment team following the successful recent Fund III raise which saw FPE raise the new fund’s hard cap to final close at £185 million.   Gill joins FPE Capital from BDO where he was a Manager in the Corporate Finance

Catherine Lewis La Torre has been appointed CEO of British Patient Capital, returning to the role she held from 2018 until 2020 before she was named as acting CEO of the British Business Bank in September of that year. Lewis la Torre has also been appointed as Chair of British Business Investments, taking over from Francis Small who recently concluded his term in office. In addition, Lewis La Torre has taken on the role of Senior Responsible Officer for the Bank’s other equity schemes. Following the recent announcement that Louis Taylor will be joining as the Bank’s new CEO in

Holland & Knight has bolstered its leading corporate, M&A and private equity practice with the addition of Chauncey Lane as a partner in its Dallas office. Lane structures and negotiates complex transactions for strategic buyers and sellers and private equity firms in the technology and financial services industries. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Lane was a partner with Reed Smith.   Lane is regularly called on to advise clients on their most significant transactions, including stock and asset acquisitions, going private transactions, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, platform acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, and recapitalisations. He regularly leverages his transactional experience to advise

Following its recent Annual General Meeting (8 July), the Jersey Funds Association (JFA) has elected a new-look committee as it continues to champion Jersey’s ecosystem for alternative funds.

Pemberton, an alternative credit specialist, has made four new senior hires across its offices. Anders Svenningsen joins as managing director and head of business development for the Nordics in Copenhagen, where he will be responsible for Pemberton’s Nordic Franchise and investors. Svenningsen brings over 25 years’ experience in finance. Prior to joining Pemberton, he was Head of Nordic & Dutch Markets at Citigroup, responsible for the client franchise in the region across all markets business and products.   Christoph Polomsky will be based in the Frankfurt office and will serve as managing director in the Business Development Team for the

LeapFrog Investments, a profit with purpose investment firm, has appointed Roger Ferguson as a member of its Global Leadership Council and Julie Wallace as its head of impact. This appointments follow Dominic Barton, former global managing partner of McKinsey, joining as chairman of the Management Board. Ferguson is the former President and CEO of TIAA, one of the 30 largest asset managers in the world and a pioneering ESG investor, and was previously the first African American to be Vice Chair of the US Federal Reserve. Wallace was Global Head of Sustainability and Community Engagement at Standard Chartered Bank, driving

Evercore has appointed Jason Fournier as a senior managing director in the firm’s Equity Capital Markets (ECM) practice. Fournier is based in Menlo Park, California and will lead and expand Evercore’s Consumer & Retail ECM business. Fournier joins from JPMorgan, where he previously led the Consumer & Retail ECM practice, and served in senior roles in Technology ECM, Equity Private Placements and Technology & Disruptive Consumer Commercial Banking. Over his twenty-year career, he has focused on structuring and marketing IPOs, follow-ons, convertibles and private placements, working with emerging high-growth companies as well as well-established incumbents. Fournier holds a BS in

Bryan, Garnier & Co, an independent investment bank for European healthcare and technology-related companies has appointed a new head of healthcare equity research, Alex Cogut. Cogut was previously Co-Head of Life Sciences Research at Kempen& Co, with extensive experience in European biotech and medtech.   Cogut will lead Bryan Garnier’s team of seven healthcare analysts based across Europe and the UK. In addition to traditional equity research, the team’s focus will be on developing differentiated thought leadership that identifies long term trends shaping the future of the healthcare sector.

Crestbridge, a provide of private equity and real estate administration solutions, has appointed Anne Catherine Grave as country head of Luxembourg. Based in Luxembourg, Grave will be responsible for leading the business in the region and building on its reputation as a leading service provider for fund managers. Her appointment adds further weight to Crestbridge’s highly experienced Luxembourg team, which provides global, comprehensive support to fund managers. This includes managing the administrative, accounting, reporting, residency, and governance needs of a broad range of fund structures throughout their lifecycles. Prior to joining Crestbridge, Grave was the partner in charge of Corporate

Alter Domus, a provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry, has appointed Gus Harris, head of AD data & analytics, to its Group Executive Board (GEB) where he will continue to report to Doug Hart, chief executive officer.