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Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has expanded its Restructuring & Turnaround practice in Asia with the appointment of Budi Mulyana as Senior Director, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. With this first appointment in Indonesia, A&M expands its presence in Southeast Asia, five years after the opening of its Singapore office.
Mulyana’s appointment reinforces A&M’s Restructuring & Turnaround offering in Asia, following several recent senior appointments in the region, including Managing Director Joshua Taylor and Senior Director Steffi Thio based in Singapore, Senior Advisor Tod Macri in Hong Kong and Senior Director Ben Hsiao in Shanghai. It also rounds
Alderwood Capital (Alderwood), a London-based fund manager, has appointed Cathy Jones as a Partner and a member of its Investment Committee.
A senior human capital executive, Jones focuses on all aspects of high value performance management in the asset management sector, with a particular emphasis on succession planning, understanding how investment teams interact and make successful decisions, and sustaining thriving cultures. Alderwood’s investment process places a heavy reliance on understanding the leadership and investment ‘DNA’ of its target businesses and Jones will lead this effort.
Jones was previously a Partner at Northill Capital where she worked alongside existing
Shore Capital Partners (Shore), a strategic private equity firm focused on microcap investing in the healthcare, food and beverage, business services and real estate industries, has appointed Brad Morehead as partner and head of the firm’s business services fund.
In his role, Morehead will continue the firm’s strategy to deploy industry-focused funds. He is responsible for partnering with business services entrepreneurs and companies with USD1 million to USD10 million in EBITDA to drive transformational growth. Morehead will lead partnerships and transactions, including investment sourcing and valuation, transaction structuring and corporate development. Within business services, the team will initially target pest
Coinfirm, the global leader in RegTech for digital currencies and the blockchain-based financial ecosystem, has closed its USD8 million Series A funding round.
The company has also appointed Mircea Mihaescu as its new Chief Executive Officer.
The investment will enable Coinfirm to continue its rapid growth trajectory and strengthen its market-leading position in the EU as well as enabling the company to expand its offering to the Asian and US markets. The funding will especially strengthen the firm’s enterprise and financial institution offering, to complement its strong offering for crypto market participants.
The Series A is co-led by SIX Fintech
Bowmark Capital has further strengthened its portfolio management and value creation team with the appointment of Ben Hollowood as a portfolio director.
Ben joins Bowmark after eight years at AnaCap Financial Partners where he was a managing director and provided strategic and operational support to the firm’s portfolio companies. Previously, he worked in the private equity practice at Bain & Company which he joined from LEK Consulting.
Bowmark’s portfolio management and value creation team works throughout the investment lifecycle to help its portfolio companies accelerate their growth and to develop and implement strategies for building long-term value.
Charles Ind, managing
Arcano Asset Management, the asset management division of Arcano Partners, has appointed Matilde Horta e Costa to lead private equity secondary market investments for Europe.
Matilde Horta e Costa has a BA from the University of Cambridge and began her career in the M&A advisory team at Perella Weinberg Partners in London. More recently, Matilde spent over five years in the investment and investor relations teams at Coller Capital, one of the largest private equity secondaries fund managers with over USD22 billion raised in the last ten years.
As a result of her time at Coller Capital, Matilde has
Canoe Intelligence (Canoe), a financial technology company focused on data management processes for alternative investors, wealth managers, asset servicers, and capital allocators, has appointed Vishal Saxena as its new Chief Technology Officer.
Saxena brings over 20 years of academic and industry experience within financial services to his new role. He will leverage his experience in team building, process optimisation, software development, project management and alternative and private investments domain knowledge to support Canoe’s growing client base and strengthen the company’s product and technology strategy.
Prior to joining Canoe, Saxena was a Managing Director in the Blackstone Technology and
William Blair, a global boutique with expertise in investment banking, investment management, and private wealth management, has appointed Michael Nelson as managing director in the firm’s growing Technology investment banking team.
Drawing on his deep fintech sector expertise and industry relationships, Nelson will play a pivotal role in the firm’s FinTech advisory growth, while expanding its investment banking footprint to include Denver.
“We are thrilled to have Mike, an investment banker with a unique and strategic eye for fintech, join our growing, industry-leading Technology team,” says Peter Dalrymple, co-head of Technology investment banking at William Blair. “His addition continues
Private investment firm Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital) has made two additions to its senior leadership team with Susan Clark joining as Managing Director – Head of Technology Value Creation on the Operations team, and Kelli Turner as Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer.
“We are thrilled to welcome Susan and Kelli to the Sun Capital team,” says Marc Leder, Co-CEO of Sun Capital Partners. “Susan’s proven success driving value creation in technology businesses will facilitate the growth of Sun Capital’s rapidly expanding technology vertical, while Kelli’s experience with financial management and firm operations will help to ensure our continued
Investec Bank (Investec) has appointed Tom Lewin to lead its FIG (Financial Institutions Group) M&A advisory team.
His appointment will be followed by two further FIG advisory hires, to be announced in the coming months.
Lewin joins from KMPG, where he was a partner in the Financial Services M&A team. He previously worked at Barclays and Rothschild, and has extensive experience advising on M&A activity for corporate and private equity clients.
At Investec, he will lead the bank’s FIG advisory offering, working with public, private and sponsor-backed clients.
The M&A advisory offering complements a highly ranked team of FIG analysts:
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