Global investment firm KKR is partnering with Andrew K “Andy” Silvernail, the former chairman and CEO of Madison Industries and IDEX Corporation, to pursue new acquisition opportunities. Silvernail will work alongside KKR as an Executive Advisor to evaluate Americas investment opportunities across multiple sectors, including industrials, health care, and consumer products. Once a company is acquired, Silvernail will collaborate with KKR to drive breakthrough operating performance and implement KKR’s broad-based employee ownership program. Silvernail will be spending a portion of his time advising on investments for KKR Ascendant, a new strategy within KKR’s Americas Private Equity platform that focuses on

Corporate lawyer Alexandra Aguirre has joined Holland & Knight’s Miami office as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, M&A and Securities and Latin America Practice Groups. Aguirre focuses her practice on international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and cross-border financing transactions, as well as private capital investments throughout Latin America and the United States. She previously was a partner with Morrison & Foerster.   Aguirre also advises families and their family offices in matters relating to running a privately held business by providing corporate advice tailored to family businesses, including corporate and family governance structure, policies and procedures, succession planning,

Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive companies, has appointed Jason Hogg as an Executive-in-Residence (EIR). In this role, Hogg will identify and pursue investment opportunities with a focus on financial technology, insurtech, cyber insurance and software. Hogg recently served as Executive Vice President at lease-to-own fintech company Acima. Previously, he was CEO of Aon Cyber Solutions, CEO of Blackstone-backed B2R Finance and a Senior Advisor at private equity firm Tritium Partners, where he focused on investments in fintech as well as information and digital services. Hogg has also held executive positions at American Express

Global service provider JTC has appointed Martin Punt as Director – Fund & Corporate Services, as the firm continues to grow its alternative fund proposition in the UK market. Based in London, Punt will play an active role in building JTC’s intermediary relationships and developing its overall private equity and venture capital offering, with a particular focus on the firm’s UK and Channel Islands proposition. He will also focus on growing organic new business in the fund and corporate services markets. With a reputation as a specialist business development professional in the private equity and venture capital space, Punt has

BGF has bolstered its presence in the North East with the appointment of John Healey as an investor. Healey joins BGF from business advisory firm, UNW, where he has spent the last eight years advising on a number of high-profile acquisition, disposal and fundraising transactions across the North East. Prior to this, he worked with the Coutts commercial banking team, before spending a decade at PwC specialising in corporate finance.  With an established network, Healey has a strong track record in the region and will utilise that experience and expertise to forge relationships with those regional businesses going for growth.

Steve Moseley, the former head of alternatives at the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp, has been appointed as a managing director at Wafra Inc where he will head up a new new co-investment strategy, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

Clara Audry has joined the team of General Partners at Jolt Capital, a European private equity firm in the field of responsible deeptech B2B companies. Audry’s appointment strenghthens Jolt Capital’s lower mid market team and bring her operational experience as a seasoned investor in venture and private equity deals.   Since 2018, Clara was a Partner at CapHorn, a French VC firm investing in B2B tech companies from seed to Series B. She sourced and followed several participations in domains ranging from software and AI to hardware. She was sitting on the boards of Bird-Office, Boxy, FinalCad and Worldia.  

Private equity house, YFM Equity Partners (YFM), which has offices in Reading, London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, has made a double promotion with Helen Villiers rising to investment director and Ben Pitt taking on the role of investment manager. Having joined YFM as an investment manager in June 2019 after five years with Grant Thornton, Villiers has become a central figure in originating, evaluating and executing new investment opportunities, including the primary buyout of fire and electrical compliance specialist RGE in April last year. Helen also represents YFM on the board of global aviation services provider ACC.   Pitt joined

Global law firm Paul Hastings has appointed private equity and M&A specialist Tom Cartwright as a partner based in London. Cartwright joins from Morgan Lewis and adds firepower to the firm’s fast-growing London office, which has increased revenue by 41% over the last year on the back of strong demand in its Private Equity, Finance, Structured Credit and Securities & Capital Markets practices.   Cartwright’s areas of focus include advising private equity sponsors, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices on private equity investments and M&A transactions. He advises several leading US private pension plans, and represents a number of private

Mid-market private equity firm LDC has appointed Alex Bexon as ESG director to continue its support of portfolio management teams as they pursue their ESG ambitions. Bexon joins from Deloitte, having spent 10 years in the company’s ESG Advisory practice, where he helped businesses to develop ESG strategies and understand, track and clearly communicate their performance to stakeholders.   In his new role, Bexon will work across LDC’s national portfolio, supporting the firm’s ongoing ESG programme, which is embedded throughout the lifecycle of its partnerships, from the initial investment through to exit.   Bexon will also help LDC to pursue