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.

RFA, a specialist IT provider to the alternative investment sector, is continuing its plans for EMEA expansion by launching a presence in the French capital, Paris.

Global financial services private equity asset manager Apis Partners has added two new Partners to the Apis Group (Apis), who will broaden the group’s investment coverage. Adam Battersby and Theofilos Kotridis will be based in the Apis’ London office and will focus on investment opportunities in Europe and the United States. Apis Partners, which was co-founded by Matteo Stefanel and Udayan Goyal in 2014, invests in growth stage financial services and financial infrastructure businesses and has a strong focus on the sustainability and societal impact of its investments in sector-leading companies.  Battersby has more than 18 years of experience investing

Stephen Tight, an attorney with extensive corporate transactional experience, both as in-house counsel and as a law firm partner, has joined Quarles & Brady in the firm’s Minneapolis office as a partner in the Business Law Practice Group. Tight has represented companies, executives, business owners and stakeholders across a wide range of complex commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, compliance concerns, licensing and intellectual property matters, and general corporate work, both domestic and international.  His areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, securities, private equity and venture capital across a range of industries — with particular depth in the

Bespoke Partners, a provider of executive search services for the private equity market, has appointed Prakash Patel as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prakash brings more than 14 years of experience in top-tier financial services and consulting engagements, including extensive work in private-equity-backed organizations, leading strategic initiatives and driving enterprise transformation projects. Based in Chicago, Prakash joins Bespoke Partners from Kaufman Hall & Associates, a private-equity-backed health care consulting and SaaS organisation.

JP Morgan Asset Management has established a new sustainability-focused growth private equity investment team. The team will launch its first private equity strategy focused on investing in growth-stage private companies that drive resource efficiency and climate adaptation solutions across a range of industries.  JP Morgan is anchoring the team’s first investment strategy with an investment of up to USD150 million, one of its largest capital commitments ever made into an alternative investment strategy.   The new sustainable growth private equity team sits within JP Morgan Private Capital, a growth equity and private credit investment platform established to tap into the

YFM Equity Partners (YFM), which has offices in Reading, London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, is continuing to expand its team throughout the UK with the appointment of Nick Holt as a portfolio director. Based in the firm’s Reading office, Holt joins from GEMS Education, one of the world’s largest K-12 education providers where he was a member of the management team across Europe, responsible for corporate development and operations. Prior to that, he had 13 years working in private equity across a range of businesses and sectors including restaurants, pubs, software, healthcare, education, IT services and fintech.  Working operationally and