Lightyear Capital (Lightyear), a New York-based private equity firm focused on financial services, has appointed Marc West as a Senior Adviser to Lightyear Fund V, and its parallel investment vehicles. West is an experienced and knowledgeable leader in fintech who has successfully scaled and led businesses by leveraging technology to streamline operations and digitise financial products and services to improve customer experience and enhance client value proposition. West brings extensive leadership and knowledge of financial technology related to Fund V’s investment themes, including the digitisation of financial products and services, the integration of payments technology, and the growth of data

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, has appointed Robert (Rob) L Wernli, Jr a as a corporate partner in the firm’s San Diego office.  Wernli’s experience as a public company and capital markets attorney includes both advisory and transactional areas. He advises public companies on SEC reporting, listing exchange compliance matters, corporate governance, and other ongoing business matters. He also has substantial transactional experience representing clients in capital markets deals, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances.   “Public companies and other clients often have uniquely complex

Andreas Höfner has joined GARBE Institutional Capital, the investment and asset manager of GARBE, focusing on residential, office, retail and specialist properties, as Head of Strategy.  Höfner has more than twelve years of experience in real estate investment and alternative investment products. The 37-year-old can draw on his extensive experience in the structuring and implementation of institutional investment strategies as well as complex real estate transactions. Before joining GARBE Institutional Capital, Andreas Höfner worked as Head of Consulting Real Estate & Alternative Investments for Helaba Invest, where he was responsible, among other things, for providing strategic advice to German institutional

Suntera Global has appointed Jon Trigg as a Non-Executive Director to strengthen the firm’s governance capabilities.  Trigg, currently a Director at Altair Partners, a leading provider of independent directors and governance consultancy services, joins the Board of the funds operation in Jersey. He was previously Head of Global Fund Services at Moore Management and prior to that was in a senior private equity role at State Street in Jersey. He has experience working in a number of key funds jurisdictions including Cayman, the Isle of Man and Jersey, locations where the firm also has an office presence and provides its

Procuritas Capital Investors VI (Procuritas), a private equity investor focused on investing in and growing Nordic mid-market companies, has appointed Lena Hofsberger as the new Chairperson of its portfolio company Medtanken, a leading primary care group in Western Sweden. Hofsberger has extensive experience in the healthcare industry and of chairing the boards of companies in the sector. Since 2012, she has been the Chairperson of the Board of the care company Ambea and in 2018 was the first woman to receive an award for Nordic region’s best chairperson, Chair of the Year, for her many years of work in this

Polaris has expanded its team with the appointment of Amanda Platek who has been hired to establish an investor relations function and will be responsible for Polaris’ fundraising activities and investor contact, reporting directly to Managing Partner Jan Johan Kühl.  Platek lives in Copenhagen and has significant investor relations experience from previous positions at Capstone in New York and within Barclays’ Brokerage Division. She holds a BA from Georgetown University, Washington DC, and an MA in Philosophy from Columbia University, New York. “We are pleased to welcome a strong profile like Amanda to the team, where she will leverage her

Ara Partners, a private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments, has hired Robert Bond and Adam Hodgson as Associates. “We are pleased to welcome Robert and Adam to the Ara family,” says Tuan Tran, a Managing Director at Ara Partners. “They bring significant deal execution and analytical experience to the firm and further strengthen our investment team as Ara continues to expand.”   “Adding Robert and Adam bolsters our team as we scale our investment activity and evaluate attractive businesses that reduce carbon emissions,” added Troy Thacker, a Managing Partner at Ara Partners. “Robert and Adam will also play

Lazard Ltd (NYSE:LAZ) has appointed Patrick No as a Managing Director, in the firm’s Private Capital Advisory Group, effective immediately.  Based in Singapore, No will cover fundraising and secondary solutions across the Asia Pacific region. “Patrick is an experienced banker with proven success in multiple sectors and deep relationships with leading private equity firms,” says Holcombe Green, Global Head of Private Capital Advisory. “His addition strengthens our senior experience and expertise in APAC, together with Nick Miles, Head of Europe and Asia Private Equity, and demonstrates our commitment to the continued growth of our advisory practices in the region.” No

Ocorian, a specialist in fund administration, corporate, fiduciary and capital markets services, has hired Nathaniel Luker as a new Partner of its Cayman Islands legal arm, Ocorian Law (Cayman) Limited.  He advises on capital markets, private equity, corporate and finance transactions and will head up the legal arm’s capital markets and investment funds practices.  Luker previously worked in the Cayman Islands office of Mourant where he was Counsel in the Finance, Corporate and Funds team. Before moving offshore, he worked in the corporate teams of Freshfields in London and Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy in Moscow.  He was identified