Pollen Street has appointed Daniel Khouri as a partner to lead the firm’s team based in New York.  Khouri will focus on developing partnerships with best-in-class specialists in the non-bank lending sector to provide capital and strategic insight. Khouri has deep experience working across the US credit market. Prior to joining Pollen Street, Khouri served six years as Co-Head of Private Credit at Colchis Capital Management, a credit investment fund manager in San Francisco, two years as a Principal at Atalaya Capital Management, a credit opportunities fund manager in New York, three years as a Vice President at TTM Capital,

Palatine, a mid-market private equity firm, has promoted Stephanie Wall to the position of ESG Director. In her new role Wall joins Palatine’s senior management team. She will continue to lead projects across Palatine’s Buy-Out and Impact funds to embed ESG (environmental, social and governance) practices and continuous improvement across its portfolio, with a particular focus on climate risk and diversity and inclusion strategies.   Wall joined Palatine as ESG Manager in 2018 following eight years with global consultancy WSP, where she advised investors on sustainability improvements.   Over the last three years Wall has been responsible for progressing Palatine’s

Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has added to its East & South East Midlands team with the appointment of experienced banker Richard Brighty.  Brighty joins as Investment Manager, based in Maven’s Nottingham office, he will be responsible for identifying and backing new local businesses via the MEIF Debt Funds. Brighty will also support existing portfolio companies across the East & South East Midlands with a particular focus in the Leicestershire area.     Brighty brings over 16 years’ financial services experience to the role having held senior positions at leading UK banks including HSBC, Yorkshire Bank and most recently Santander Corporate

CAPZA, an independent management company and leading player in private investment in European SMEs, has appointed Stefano Zavattaro as head of its Italian branch.  Zavattaro, Partner and Country Manager, will be responsible for CAPZA’s investments in Italian SMEs and will support the transalpine development projects of CAPZA’s French, Spanish and German portfolio companies. Zavattaro has held various positions throughout his career. After graduating in Economics from Rome’s Sapienza University and specializing in Finance at the London Business School in London, he worked as a manager for the multinational General Electric where he participated in numerous M&A and private equity transactions

Holland Mountain has appointed Kyri Yiannakis as Head of Client Development. In this role, Yiannakis will oversee all of Holland Mountain’s commercial activity, continuing to drive the exceptional service delivered to Holland Mountain’s Private Capital clients.  Leveraging 13 years of Private Capital technology experience, Yiannakis will also expand the reach of Holland Mountain’s Private Capital Data Platform, helping more firms to achieve one source of truth, to automate manual processes and to unlock the true value of their data.  Yiannakis brings significant growth experience with him, having been a founding member of iLEVEL after its spinout from Blackstone. He was

Gresham House, a specialist alternative asset manager, has appointed Peter Bolton as an Investment Director within its New Energy team. Bolton will be responsible for the development of the unsubsidised renewables strategy. Bolton has 12 years’ experience in energy investments and joins Gresham House from Foresight Group, where he worked for seven years and most recently held the position of Investment Director. In this role Bolton focussed on the European renewable energy sector, leading deals across the full project lifecycle (development capital, greenfield, brownfield and exit processes) and actively managing assets post-investment. Peter held particular specialisms in the solar and bioenergy

Global law firm Goodwin has expanded its Private Investment Funds practice in the Frankfurt office with the addition of fund formation and regulatory partner Dr Joachim Kayser.“During a period of continued expansion in Frankfurt, we are thrilled to launch Goodwin’s German funds platform and amplify the firm’s dominance at the intersection of capital and innovation,” says Stephan Kock, chair of Goodwin’s Frankfurt office. “Joachim is a premier fund formation, structuring, and regulatory lawyer who will play a central role alongside colleagues in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Luxembourg, and Hong Kong in providing solutions for clients raising and

Exponent has appointed Jeroen Regeur as Head of Benelux, with a view to Exponent opening an office in Amsterdam.Regeur will be responsible for building out Exponent’s Benelux business while also generating and executing transactions in the UK, Ireland, the Nordics, and other European markets within Exponent’s key sectors of Business Services, Consumer, Financial Services, and Media. Regeur will split his time between Amsterdam and London.   Prior to joining Exponent, Regeur was a Managing Director at EQT Partners, where he helped establish the firm’s Benelux business. Prior to joining EQT Partners he worked at TPG Capital and Morgan Stanley in

Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), has appointed Abhinav Agarwal as a Senior Director based in London. Agarwal joins A&M’s Global Transaction Advisory Group to lead their Global Transaction Analytics (GTA) service offering in Europe and brings more than 15 years of transactions experience.

Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has made two new hires as it bolsters its developed market special situations capabilities – namely Neill Morgan, as a Senior Analyst and Juan Herrero, as an Analyst.Based in London, both will report to Adam Phillips, who joined the firm in October last year as Head of Developed Markets within its global leveraged finance team, and was charged with further enhancing BlueBay’s offering within this space. The team believes there is an increasing opportunity to invest in stressed and distressed credit, where the level of corporate restructurings is set to remain elevated