LGT Capital Partners, a global specialist in Alternative investing, has hired Wael El Burji as Managing Director and Senior Executive Officer to head and expand its presence in the Middle East.

Stableton Financial AG (Stableton), a European Fintech platform for alternative investments, has hired Freddie Cunningham as Head of Sales.  Cunningham’s appointment aims to broaden Stableton’s fast growth and distribution capabilities further and prepare its international expansion upon its Series A funding round. In this newly created position, Cunningham will report to Stableton’s Chief Revenue Officer Igor Shelemetiev and will be responsible for Stableton’s global sales, distribution and client service activities. He will head the respective teams that focus on servicing financial intermediaries, institutional and private investors. Before joining Stableton, Cunningham was the Zurich-based Head of EMEA for i2i Logic, a

Ocorian, a financial services group and provider of fund, corporate, capital markets and private client services has appointed Michelle Merola as Business Development Director. Ocorian has more than 25 years’ experience in the employee benefits sector. The team provide tailor-made solutions in employee participation for a large portfolio of FTSE 100, 250, 350 and AIM-listed companies, multinational corporations, leading financial institutions, and smaller, often private equity-backed private companies. Merola will work closely with Ocorian’s existing employee incentive plan clients to ensure service excellence and will proactively develop its client book within private equity. She will also further extend Ocorian’s scope

Global law firm White & Case LLP has promoted 40 lawyers to counsel and 28 lawyers to local partner. The moves include even private equity practitioners.

Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI), a global investment bank, has made several senior appointments boosting its global Business Services Group’s presence in Europe.   James Ireland joins Houlihan Lokey as a Managing Director and brings more than two decades of experience advising clients on both public and private M&A transactions as well as debt and equity capital raises in Europe. He joins from RBC Capital Markets, where he was Head of European Business Services. Prior to RBC, he worked within Citigroup’s Global Industrials Group, focusing on the services and construction sectors. He began his career with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) and

Exus Management Partners (Exus), an expert in powering sustainable investments through operational excellence, has continued its global expansion by announcing a new office in Istanbul.  The new operation will focus on managing and optimising renewable energy projects within the host nation, as well as neighbouring regions in the Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East and north Africa. The announcement comes after a successful year, with Exus onboarding 4GW since 2020, reaching 9GW in assets under management (AUM) across the full scope of the company’s services. Exus Partner Aygen Yayıkoğlu will head up the office, bringing with him 25 years of energy and

Trilantic North America, a leading, growth-focused private equity firm, announced today the promotion of Dan Siegman to Managing Director. Siegman has played an integral role in expanding the firm’s business services practice, most recently leading an investment in digital marketing firm WebFX and launching Tercera, an IT services platform. He is currently a director of Asset Living, Outdoor Living Supply, Tercera and WebFX.   “Dan has contributed tremendous value to our business services team over the years, helping to lead recent investments this year in WebFx and Tercera,” says Charlie Ayres, Chairman and Managing Partner of Trilantic North America. “Beyond

Korean M&A lawyers, Woojae Kim, has joined O’Melveny as a partner based in Seoul. Woojae is a trusted advisor to Korean companies on their outbound, cross-border matters as well as to international investment banks and private equity clients in major transactions involving Korean businesses. Heis highly regarded for his broad abilities spanning cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investments, financings, and securities offerings. Before joining O’Melveny, Woojae was a partner at one of Korea’s largest domestic law firms and a corporate partner in an AmLaw 100 firm in Seoul. He also previously practiced in both New York and

Baker Botts, an international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, has appointed Frank X Schoen has as a partner in the Global Projects Department in New York. Schoen regularly advises private equity sponsors and project developers, as well as commercial and investment banks, investment firms and other financial institutions, on project finance, leveraged finance and acquisition finance transactions in the conventional power, renewable energy, oil & gas, and infrastructure sectors.   He joins Baker Botts from King & Spalding in New York, where he was a member of the Corporate, Finance & Investments practice group. He has over 13