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SME private equity investments specialist CAPZA has appointed Aurore Gauffre as Head of Sustainability & Impact, and strengthened its investor relations team. Several promotions have also been made in the company’s investment team.
A signatory of the UNPRI since 2011, CAPZA is convinced that the implementation of best-in-class ESG practices contributes to the long-term performance of the companies it supports, and has integrated, for the past five years, a rigorous ESG approach in all its private equity and private debt funds based on a proprietary methodology and relying on the platform developed by Sirsa. Recently, CAPZA has innovated on private
Aon, a global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, has formed an EMEA M&A and Transaction Solutions Advisory Board.
The new advisory board will support the growth and development of Aon’s M&A practice across the UK and EMEA, as it continues to expand its client offerings to include solutions for intellectual property, cyber security and digital performance, retirement, benefits, talent and compensation, structured credit, tax and litigation risks, ESG and more.
In a highly volatile, competitive and constantly evolving landscape, corporate clients considering M&A transactions, and financial sponsors such as private equity
City law firm McCarthy Denning has expanded its international energy practice with the appointment of two new partners, Michel Lequien, who joins from Ashurst LLP (Paris), and Peter Wright, previously with Squire Patton Boggs. Consultant Solicitor, Nila Gibb, and Legal Consultant, Keymir Orazov, have also joined the team.
With these four new additions, McCarthy Denning’s Energy Group has more than doubled in size to a team of 11 experienced lawyers in the past three years. The firm’s international energy practice offers its clients expert corporate, projects and commercial advice across the global energy sector (oil, gas, LNG, conventional and renewable
The Alternative Credit Council, the private credit affiliate of the Alternative Investment Management Association, has launched its Investor Manager Committee, a new initiative which aims to strengthen the ACC’s work on key areas where private credit market practice is still evolving, and foster better engagement between investors and asset managers in this burgeoning asset class.
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Private funds specialist, Dale Gabbert has joined European law firm Fieldfisher as Head of Funds. He joins from Simmons & Simmons where he was a funds partner since 2014, specialising in private equity, infrastructure, credit and hedge funds.
NTR has appointed Anthony Doherty as Chief Investment Officer designate replacing outgoing CIO, Manus O’Donnell. Doherty has also been appointed to the board of NTR plc, taking his board seat in May 2021.
Doherty has been with the NTR group for eleven years and has extensive renewables investment experience across multiple technologies including wind, solar, energy storage and the bioenergy and energy-from-waste sectors. He has executed over EUR1.75 billion of renewable energy equity and debt transactions across Europe and the USA.
Rosheen McGuckian, CEO of NTR, says: “I am really delighted to announce Anthony’s appointment as CIO Designate. Over the
Victory Hill Capital Advisors LLP has appointed Gregory Scopelitis CFA as a Principal in investments.
Scopelitis will be responsible for the origination and execution of new investments for Victory Hill Capital Advisors, as well as for portfolio asset value enhancement. He joined the team on 26 April 2021.
A specialist in the global energy and infrastructure sector, Scopelitis has over 15 years’ experience in project financing in both structured and corporate finance across conventional and renewable energy. He has acted as an investor, financial advisor and lender in a diverse range of developed and emerging markets across the
Golding Capital Partners is expanding into impact investing with the appointment of an experienced team of impact investors.
Andreas Nilsson and Nina Freudenberg joined the Golding investment team in March as Head of Impact and Director respectively. The duo previously founded Sonanz in 2015 as a boutique fund manager for impact investments in private equity. Golding intends to launch its first global impact private equity product for institutional investors in the second half of 2021.
“We are delighted to have attracted Andreas and Nina to our team. Sonanz was one of the pioneers of impact investing with a bold vision
Perwyn Advisors is opening a permanent office in Paris, its first office outside the UK.
Following two successful investments in France, the Paris office will act as a platform for further investments both in France and in neighbouring countries. Antoine Vanderhulst, Partner, will be joined full time in Paris by John Gallagher, Investment Director, and Julie Pelcener, Associate.
Perwyn’s first investment in France was Isla Delice in 2018 followed by Keobiz in 2020. Perwyn is actively looking for new Private Equity opportunities both in France but also across Europe more broadly.
Andrew Wynn, Founder and Managing Partner, says: “France has
DLA Piper has appointed Jacques Wantz as International Group Head of the firm’s Tax practice, with effect from 1 May 2021.
Wantz joined DLA Piper from Allen & Overy in December 2018 and is a highly regarded international tax planning lawyer. He has significant experience in international and corporate tax law, focusing on the tax aspects of cross-border private equity, real estate and debt investments and the tax structuring of regulated and unregulated investment funds. Wantz also advises on the tax elements of corporate restructurings, securitisation and capital markets transactions.
Wantz succeeds Roderik Bouwman, who after many successful years will
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