Independent financial services group PraxisIFM has made 45 promotions across its global network of offices.

Blank Rome has appointed David E Kronenberg as an energy finance partner in the Finance, Restructuring, and Bankruptcy practice group, and a member of the firm’s cross-practice Energy Industry Team. Kroenenbrg, who will be based in the firm’s Washington DC, and Cincinnati, Ohio, offices, will focus his practice on the intersection of energy hedging, financing, and bankruptcy law, representing energy companies, financial institutions, hedge funds, and private equity firms.  Kroenenbrg joins from Sidley Austin where he served as counsel in the firm’s energy group.

Griffin Capital Partners has just completed its rebranding from Griffin Real Estate, a moved designed to reflect the growing importance of private equity in the firm’s investment activities.

DOMOS FS has added Hugues Chabanis – Vice President of Innovation at SimCorp – to its Board of Directors. Chabanis is an expert in the Alternatives investment space, with two decades spent designing, building, selling, and implementing alternatives solutions across the globe.  Over the past seven years, he has led a tailored team that has built up the alternative investment capabilities of SimCorp’s Dimension platform. This culminated in the creation of the first true integrated IBOR and ABOR across Public and Private Markets. Under his supervision, SimCorp Dimension onboarded innovative and disruptive technology, partners and workflows allowing SimCorp Limited Partners Clients

Liquid Stock, a partner for private company shareholders seeking liquidity, has expanded its team with the hiring of Annie Woodworth, Vice President of Legal, and Khatija Teekay, Investment Associate. Woodworth joins Liquid Stock from 500 Startups, a global venture capital firm where she served as Counsel and was primarily focused on deal execution.  Teekay joins Liquid Stock from Deloitte, where she specialised in large-scale lending technology transformations as part of the firm’s Digital Banking practice. 

Dawn Capital (Dawn), a European specialist B2B software investor, has made a number of internal promotions as well as five new appointments to its team. Most notably Henry Mason has been promoted to Partner, making him the fourth partner promoted internally at Dawn. Half of Dawn’s General Partners are internally promoted.   Dawn is immensely proud of the talent in its team which enables it to draw on rich and diverse perspectives. The team comes from a broad range of countries and backgrounds, with over 20 languages spoken and an age range spanning four decades. It also maintains a 50/50

Khalid Kahn has joined Aeon Investments, a London based credit-focused investment company, as a Managing Director in the firm’s investment team. With more than 20 years of experience, Kahn joins Aeon from Federated Hermes International where he was Senior Credit Structurer in the Fixed Income Group responsible for managing structured credit portfolios comprising regulatory capital trades and CLOs. As a senior member of the investment team, Kahn is responsible for originating and structuring new investments, and managing existing credit portfolios in commercial real estate and SME lending.

HIG Capital, a global alternative asset manager with over USD47 billion of equity capital under management, has added Dyice Ellis-Beckham and Sergei Schmidt to the firm’s Capital Formation Group. Both Dyice and Sergei will be based in HIG’s New York office and responsible for capital raising and investor relations activities in North America. Ellis-Beckham joins HIG as a Managing Director from Invesco’s Institutional Sales group, where she was responsible for business development and capital raising activities across Invesco’s platform.  Schmidt joins HIG as a Principal from Varde Partners, where he was a Senior Relationship Manager responsible for institutional business development

ATL Partners (ATL), a sector-focused private equity firm investing in aerospace, transportation and logistics, has made two promotions in its investment team. Allie Donini and Eli Exum have both been elevated to Vice President from Senior Associate. Donini joined ATL in 2019 from Goldman Sachs where she was an associate in the Investment Banking Global Industrials Group. Exum joined ATL in 2019 from Lindsay Goldberg where he was an associate and worked across a variety of sectors including industrials and government services.