Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital firm, has promoted Eyal Malinger, Maria Wagner, and Vanessa Evanson-Goddard to Partner. Malinger and Wagner, who have both been key members of Beringea’s investment committee for more than five years, will focus on sourcing deals across the UK, strengthening the firm’s coverage of emerging industries and technologies – including SaaS, e-commerce, marketplaces, data, and AI – as well as working with portfolio companies through to exit.   Evanson-Goddard’s role as Partner and General Counsel will include overseeing legal, compliance, finance, and operations in Beringea’s UK office. 

Newlight Partners (Newlight), a growth equity investment firm, has promoted Joshua Ho-Walker to Partner. In addition, James Antoniotti and Kristian Hila have been promoted to Principal. Ho-Walker joined the Newlight team in 2008 from Merrill Lynch and leads the firm’s thematic investments in Evolution of Bandwidth Consumption.   Antoniotti joined the Newlight team in 2016 and focuses on investments across themes and sectors, while Kristian Hila joined the Newlight team in 2016 and focuses on investments across themes and sectors. 

Kester Capital (Kester) has promoted Peter Ralph to Partner. Ralph joined Kester in 2019 and has been instrumental in the growth and success of the business. He has completed a number of deals for Kester and sits on the board of YouGarden and Optibrium.  At the same time, Daisy Driscoll has joined Kester as an Associate. She previously spent three years at Strategy&, the strategic consulting arm of PwC, where she had a particular focus on healthcare. Daisy is a graduate of Cambridge University with a degree in Geography.

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