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The Griffin Global Asset Management companies (Griffin) have expanded their Dublin office with the addition of Carolanne Cunningham as General Counsel, Eimear Konkoly as Vice President, and Bill O’Brien as Financial Controller.
“Carolanne, Eimear, and Bill have incredibly strong backgrounds from several industries and each will lead different areas of our growing business. We are delighted that such talented executives have joined the Griffin Team,” says Ryan McKenna, Chief Executive Officer of the Griffin group.
Cunningham joins as General Counsel. Previously she was Head of Legal for the Global Leasing EMEA business at Bank of America, NA, advising on financing
Arnold & Porter has appointed Marc Isaacs as a partner in the firm’s Corporate & Finance practice, resident in London.
Kathleen Harris, head of Arnold & Porter’s London office and co-chair of the firm’s Anti-Corruption practice, says: “Marc has extensive experience in international cross-border finance transactions across Europe and around the world. His arrival will deepen our offering in leveraged finance, real estate finance, structured finance, and restructuring.”
Isaacs’s practice focuses on bilateral and syndicated lending transactions with a focus in sports finance, infrastructure finance, real estate finance, and general secured lending. He represents financial institutions, private equity sponsors and international
Preqin, a specialist in alternative assets data, tools, and insights, has appointed Christoph Knaack, currently the company’s Chief Strategy & Product Officer, as CEO as of 1 January, 2022.
Knaack will focus on leading Preqin through its next growth phase, as the company moves toward serving its customers through the entire private market investment lifecycle — from fundraising and investor relations to deal origination, due diligence and portfolio monitoring.
From 2022, Preqin’s founder and current CEO, Mark O’Hare, will continue his active involvement as a member of Preqin’s Board of Directors, and as the company’s principal shareholder, supporting Preqin’s executive
Flare Capital Partners, a healthcare technology venture capital firm, has promoted Ian Chiang and Vic Lanio to Partner and Margaret Malone to Principal.
“We are thrilled to acknowledge the accomplishments of Ian, Vic and Margaret,” says Bill Geary, co-founder and partner. “We are delighted to recognise the role each has played alongside the rest of our Flare Capital team members, in helping our portfolio companies.”
“When Bill and I set out nearly seven years ago to build Flare Capital, our goal was to attract an incredibly talented and passionate investment team. These promotions reflect how important we view each of
ITERAM Capital SA, an independent Swiss alternative asset manager, has made two appointments to its alternative team.
ITERAM provides investors access to differentiated alternative investments with the potential to generate stable and consistent uncorrelated returns.
Manuel Garzelli, ITERAM’s CEO, says: “Moïra and Marouane will further enhance our alternative investment expertise and will be invaluable contributors to ITERAM’s growth ambition as well as serving our clients with best-in-class alternative investment solutions.”
Marouane Daho joined ITERAM Capital in August 2021 as investment and research analyst within the team that oversees investments across hedge funds, alternative UCITS and private markets. He is responsible
Sofinnova Partners, a European life sciences venture capital firm based in Paris, London and Milan, has appointed Geraldine Usseglio as Head of Human Resources.
The creation of this position reinforces the ongoing expansion of the firm’s teams and the diversification of its investment strategies across sector, stage and geography.
Usseglio will be responsible for strengthening the firm’s human resources strategy, supporting the development of its global team to empower individuals to reach their full potential, while maximising the performance of the firm. She will report to Monique Saulnier, Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer.
Usseglio has over two decades of
Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 24 attorneys as new partners of the firm, effective 1 November.
The new partners are exceptional advisers to the firm’s clients, demonstrating excellence in a year defined by a global health crisis and unprecedented levels of activity for the firm and its clients.
These lawyers consistently draw on their deep knowledge of clients’ businesses to deliver exceptional results and guide them through their most complex challenges.
The new partners illustrate the characteristics that have established Ropes & Gray as one of the world’s most elite global law firms. They are experts in
Blue Horizon, a pure play impact investor in the future of food, has made three new additions to its investment team, adding a Partner and two Directors, bringing the total to 28 employees worldwide.
Blue Horizon’s mission is to accelerate the global transition to a new sustainable food system, including alternative proteins and agriculture, while delivering outstanding returns for investors and the planet. Recent expansion has seen the asset manager grow to 28 employees worldwide, including nine on the investment team (67 per cent women) in just six years since founding. Headquartered in Zurich, Blue Horizon’s fast-growing global portfolio of
Goldfinch Partners, a private equity firm with approximately USD1 billion of equity invested in digital transformation transactions across industry verticals, has appointed Matthew F Herman as a Partner of the Firm and General Counsel in November 2021.
Goldfinch invests in sectors and spaces about which it has deep knowledge, including marketing, commerce, payments, fintech, supply chain and human capital. Recent investments include the announced USD910 million acquisition of Western Union Business Solutions, one of the world’s largest non-bank providers of business-to-business (B2B) cross-border payment and foreign exchange solutions, which is to be renamed Convera upon the deal’s closing.
K2 Management, a renewable energy consultancy, has appointed Carsten Nielsen as its new CEO.
The renewables and maritime industry leader will join from Semco Maritime in November, bringing with him 20 years of experience in offshore wind development and experience across a range of project-based industries.
Across a career that spans more than 30 years, Nielsen has successfully occupied a number of senior leadership roles at some of Denmark’s best performing businesses. Most recently, he has been Senior Vice President of the Renewables division at Semco Maritime in Esbjerg, an international engineering and contracting company dedicated to projects in the
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