Monroe Capital LLC today announced Sweta Chanda has joined the firm as Managing Director, Head of Business Strategy based in the firm’s New York office. She will be responsible for firmwide strategy, product and corporate development, and new initiatives to expand Monroe’s global footprint. Prior to Monroe, Sweta was a Director at New York Life Investment Management (NYLIM) within the Strategy and M&A team responsible for heading alternative investment strategy, where she helped launch a European Opportunistic Credit Fund, European CLO platform, GP Stakes Fund, and a Social Impact Fund amongst other strategic business development and growth opportunities for NYLIM.

Global law firm White & Case has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice with the addition of partners Ross Allardice, Mark Evans and Tony Brown, who all return to the Firm’s London office. “The addition of Ross, Mark and Tony further deepens our bench of private equity partners in London and strengthens our private equity practice in EMEA, continuing the growth and success of our standout Global Private Equity Industry Group,” says White & Case partner John Reiss, Head of the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. “The new partners will also help grow our sponsor mandates in key investor

Alantra, an independent global mid-market investment banking and asset management firm, has added five senior professionals, increasing its specialised global offering in high-growth sectors.  The Group has reinforced its investment banking capabilities by incorporating a Real Estate & Hospitality team in Paris, and two Managing Directors in Frankfurt focused on Industrials and Technology.   Based in Paris, the new Real Estate & Hospitality sector team consists of five professionals, including three partners, each with between 15 and 20 years of experience in the sector. Working together since 2016 in the Capital Markets department of the Babylone Group, the three new

Vision Ridge Partners (Vision Ridge), an investor in sustainable real assets, has appointed Paul Luce, former Senior Investment Leader on Partners Group’s Private Infrastructure Investment Team, as a Managing Director. A seasoned private equity investor across the sustainable real asset and infrastructure sectors, Luce will be responsible for sourcing and leading investments across key sustainable subsectors in energy and mobility. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he will report to Vision Ridge Co-Founder and Managing Partner Reuben Munger.   “We are thrilled to welcome Paul to the Vision Ridge team,” says Munger. “His significant experience and strong track record of investing across

KKR & Co has appointed Evan Spiegel as a new Independent Director, bringing the total of independent directors on the company’s Board to eleven out of fifteen seats. Spiegel is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Snap Inc, a publicly traded camera company that believes reinventing the camera represents the greatest opportunity to improve the way that people live and communicate. KKR’s other independent directors include Adriane Brown (Managing Partner of Flying Fish Partners), Mary Dillon (Executive Chair of Ulta Beauty, Inc), Joseph Grundfest (Stanford Law Professor and former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission), Arturo Gutiérrez (Chief

Following the continued growth of the firm, Crestbridge, a provider of alternative private equity and real estate administration solutions, has appointed Siân Dalrymple as Group Chief Risk Officer.   Dalrymple will be responsible for the oversight and enhancement of Crestbridge’s risk function and the development of its risk management services platform for its global client base.    Dalrymple brings to the role vast experience and a proven track record in leading the compliance and risk functions for large, multi-national and stock-exchange listed organisations globally.    Prior to joining Crestbridge, Dalrymple was Executive Vice President, Group Head of Compliance and Group

Global corporate, private client, and fund services firm, Hawksford, has made two senior appointments to support its Fund Services offering.  Joining the team in Jersey, with a long roster of technical expertise in private equity, venture capital and renewables, is Associate Director of Funds Services, Edward McFadyen. In his role at Hawksford, Edward will be supporting the growth of the Funds Services team driving change and innovation to services and solidify client relationships. McFadyen joins Hawksford from another Jersey-based private client, corporate services and fund administration firm. He started out as a Junior Private Client Administrator in 2004 and rose

Capstone Partners (Capstone), the independent global placement agent, has appointed two Advisory Board members in Europe.  Debbie Philippides and Neil Sneddon will help to source, evaluate and execute new client opportunities, and leverage their collective experience as successful LPs and GPs.   These appointments follow an active year for Capstone, which raises capital for private equity, credit, real asset and infrastructure firms around the world. In 2021, Capstone clients have held closes totalling more than USD10 billion in fund commitments. Capstone’s team of 40 professionals are based at five offices across three continents.   Philippides brings 22 years of investment

AssetMetrix has opened a branch office in Luxembourg with Alexander Wedlich joining as Head of Business Development Luxembourg, Belgium and France.