EQT’s Infrastructure III fund is to sell Segra’s Commercial Services Business to Cox Communications (Cox). EQT Infrastructure will retain Segra’s residential and SMB business, which operates under the Lumos Networks and NorthState brands. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Segra employs more than 1,200 people and provides broadband data services across a 26,000-mile fibre network to a variety of customers including wireless carriers, healthcare providers, local government agencies, financial institutions, education institutions, and residential customers. Ongoing digitalisation and outsourcing trends are driving demand for broadband services, particularly in rapidly growing US metro markets such as the ones Segra serves. Together with

Partners Capital, a global Outsourced Investment Office, has appointed  Emmanuel Pitsilis as a Managing Director based in Singapore.  Pitsilis will serve as co-head for the Asia Pacific region alongside Managing Director Adam Watson and report to CEO Arjun Raghavan.   Pitsilis will work closely with Watson and Dominik Burckgard, Head of the firm’s Hong Kong office, to deepen the firm’s capabilities in offering blue-chip regional and global investment solutions for its world-wide client base.   “We are thrilled to welcome Emmanuel to Partners Capital at a time when the client demand for investment services and solutions across Asia has never

AURELIUS Group has appointed wo new members to its investment team in London. Simon Jobson joins as Principal and Shivani Sheth as Investment Associate, bringing the total investment team in London to 12. Jobson and Sheth will work with Tristan Nagler, Partner, AURELIUS European Opportunities IV, who with the London-based investment team has led several of AURELIUS’ most recently announced investments with the complex carve-out of SSE Contracting, AutoRestore, Pullman Fleet Solutions and GKN Wheels & Structures. The new hires mark continued growth for AURELIUS in the UK, which has expanded year-on-year since inception in 2014. The announcement of new

Andera Partners is strengthening its presence in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, German speaking Switzerland) by opening an office in Munich. The management company has already been active in this region for several years, notably through its Andera Life Sciences activity. It has invested in companies such as Jenavalve, Noxxon, Probiodrug, and Allecra and, more recently, in T-Knife, Exciva and Tricares. Andera Partners will continue to focus on the biotech and medtech sectors in these markets, while preparing the ground for its SME, Mezzanine and Renewable Energy and Infrastructure funds. “The German, Austrian and German speaking Swiss markets have traditionally

Foley & Lardner has appointed Matthew McBride as a partner in the firm’s Fund Formation & Investment Management Practice Group in Boston.  McBride comes to Foley from Proskauer Rose LLP, where he was a partner in the Private Funds Group.   McBride focuses his practice on representing investment managers in all aspects of their business, with a particular emphasis on representing private equity sponsors in connection with the establishment of private investment funds, fundraising activities, structuring of management company and in-house arrangements and regulatory, compliance and governance matters. He has extensive experience advising sponsors across various strategies, including buyout, growth

Alantra Private Equity has appointed Javier Pijoan and Chema Fernández as Operating Partners, specialising in Sales & Marketing, and Digital Transformation, respectively.  Pijoan has more than 25 years of experience in Consumer and Food, having developed his professional career in national and international groups such as Heineken, where he has been a member of the European Executive Committee, Bacardi Limited, where he has been General Manager of Iberia, and Carrefour Group, among others. Ne will support the management teams of Alantra Private Equity’s portfolio companies in the definition of the commercial strategy, in the implementation and monitoring of the distribution

JAB has appointed Lubomira Rochet as partner, effective 1 June, 2021. Based in London, Rochet is a specialist business transformer with extensive global experience across multiple industries. She joins JAB following seven years at L’Oréal, where she served as Chief Digital Officer and a member of the Executive Committee.

Bowmark Capital has made four promotions – Antonia Cheong and Tom Elliott become partners while Tom Keen has been promoted to investment director and Alex McRae to investment manager. Cheong joined Bowmark in 2014 from DC Advisory. She has played a key role in the development of the firm’s business services practice and co-leads the healthcare team.  Antonia has been involved in a number of Bowmark’s investments including Lawyers on Demand, Pirum and Node4.   Elliott, who joined Bowmark from PwC, also in 2014, is a member of the firm’s technology team and leads the financial services practice. He has

Jensen Partners, a women-owned executive search and corporate advisory firm for the alternative investment management industry, has appointed Nicholas Koehler s Head of Private Credit and Private Equity. 

InXpress Holdings, a software-enabled global franchisor of transportation and logistics services, has named four senior executives to its Board of Directors: Omar Simmons, Executive Chairman of one of the largest Planet Fitness franchise and Managing Director at Exaltare Capital Partners; Arnold Goldberg, former Senior Vice President and Senior Product Technologist at PayPal; Brendan Mulryan, Vice President at Etsy; and Jan Uhrich, former VP Services at Dell. The new directors add complementary skills to reinforce InXpress’s long-term commitment to provide world-class transportation and logistics solutions to small and medium sized businesses.   Last year Hudson Hill Capital (HHC) acquired InXpress. Eric