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Z Capital Group (ZCG), a private markets asset manager, has appointed Tony Hu as a director in the Firm’s Corporate Development Team.
In this role, Hu is responsible for fund creation, institutional client solutions and co-investments, placement agent coordination and project management, as well as the development of private wealth channels and oversight of new and existing relationships.
Prior to joining ZCG, Hu was a director with Onex Corp (Onex), where he focussed on project management and investor relations efforts across Onex platforms.
Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager, has appointed Manuel Kalbreier, as managing director and head of alternative specialists, EMEA Institutional.
HIG Bayside Capital (Bayside), the special situations and distressed debt affiliate of HIG Capital, has promoted Mathilde Malezieux to managing director.
Malezieux has over sixteen years of investment banking and distressed investment experience. She previously worked at Nomura where she focused on European senior and mezzanine debt investments.
Alternative credit specialist CIFC Asset Management (CIFC) has appointed Conor Daly, former managing director, head of European credit at Onex credit, as head of European credit.
Kinzie Capital Partners (Kinzie) portfolio company, Chelsea Lighting (Chelsea), a lighting and lighting controls distributor, has named Michael Toolis as chief executive officer.
Toolis, who currently serves as an Operating Partner at Kinzie and maintains his seat on the Chelsea Board, steps into his new role effective immediately.
A corporate and M&A group specialising in private equity has joined law firm Holland & Knight’s office in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Joining the firm are partners Rick Bange, John Gilson, Mike Miller, Emerich Gutter and Ben Weadon. All were previously at Moore & Van Allen.
With these newadditions, the firm will have more than 360 attorneys in its corporate and M&A practice.
Independent international mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm Marktlink, has appointed two new consultants in its Manchester office.
The recently launched UK HQ is the ninth office in the international Marktlink network, and the new hires are the first since the opening of the Manchester branch earlier this year.
Alex Wilson, who has joined from Deloitte, where he worked as part of the Tax & Legal team in Leeds, and Hari Griffith, who has joined from OneToOne Corporate Finance in Chester.
Wealth management and professional services group Tilney Smith & Williams, which is to rebrand as Evelyn Partners, has appointed Stephen Woodhouse as a partner with a remit to build and develop its private equity tax offering.
Woodhouse joins the firm’s professional services business from EY where he was an Associate Partner who led the Manchester Private Equity Transaction Tax Team and was part of the wider national Mid-Market group. He is a specialist in this field and has over 15 years of experience supporting mid-market private equity clients and their management teams on the tax implications of all aspects of
Partners Group has appointed Ben Brier as a partner and head of its US private equity health and life team.
Breier will be responsible for all aspects of the US Health & Life franchise, including executing new investments, driving portfolio value creation, and attracting additional operating talent to the global Health & Life team.
Breier was previously the CEO of Kindred Healthcare, one of the largest providers of healthcare services in the US with over $7bn in revenue and 115,000 employees.
Liberty Global Transaction Solutions has promoted Geoffrey Lee as the Liberty GTS regional manager, Asia Pacific (APAC), continuing to report to William Lewis, Head of Asia Pacific for Liberty GTS.
Lee is a qualified solicitor specialising in corporate M&A, having previously established his legal career with DLA Piper in Sydney and in London. He has been with the Liberty GTS team since 2014.
Lee will now take on a broader role, managing the Asia Pacific region for Liberty GTS.
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