UK cyber security business, Adarma, has strengthened its management team with the appointment of ex-Cisco Global Vice President John Maynard as its new CEO. The business has made the appointment as it seeks to capitalise on its existing strong growth trajectory and track record in assisting large blue-chip organisations with threat management and security operations. Adarma intends to do this by expanding its service offerings and driving international growth across the UK, US and Europe.   Maynard will take up the role at the end of November. Previously VP of the Global Security Specialists group at Cisco, John joins Adarma with

Atwater Capital (Atwater), a private equity firm that focuses exclusively on the media and entertainment sectors, has appointed Meri Khananashvili, formerly an executive at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the entertainment agency giant, as Principal. Khananashvili, who brings deep industry expertise and an extensive network to the firm’s leadership, will play a key role in the execution of Atwater’s investment strategy. She will be based at the firm’s Los Angeles headquarters.   Prior to joining, Khananashvili was a Business Affairs Executive in the Media Finance Group at CAA, one of Atwater’s key industry partners. Khananashvili’s experience includes consulting on deal structuring, film

Zouk, an infrastructure and private equity fund manager investing in the sustainable economy, has appointed Lord Paul Myners CBE to the its Board.Myners’ appointment will allow Zouk to draw upon his wider ranging insights into multiple areas of interest including, in particular, ESG considerations within private equity portfolios.  Myners’ is also expected to play an important role in supporting Zouk’s business. Lord Myners, a member of the House of Lords, has a distinguished track record in policymaking, fund management and business as an investor and corporate leader. Myners worked at Gartmore between 1987 – 2001, where he was latterly CEO

Development Partners International (DPI), a pan-African private equity firm with USD1.7 billion in assets under management, has elected three new professionals to its Partnership.

Tori Weir, who represents institutional investors in US and cross-border debt financings with a focus on secured and unsecured private placements, has rejoined Morgan Lewis from Akin Gump as a partner resident in London.Weir also advises institutional investors and other institutional lenders in mezzanine financing and leveraged acquisition transactions. Additionally, she has borrower-side experience in bank financings and private placements of debt, as well as a broad range of experience in US and international corporate and capital markets transactions.   “With Tori, we further expand our strong institutional investor team globally and deepen our destination private placement practice in London,”

Schulte Roth & Zabel (SRZ), a law firm serving the financial services industry, has added Douglas S Mintz as a partner and co-chair of the Business Reorganisation Group. Mintz, who is based in the Washington, DC office, was previously a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.Read the full story at Hedgeweek…

Graphite Capital, a UK mid-market private equity specialist, has made one promotion and two new appointments to its investment team.Lara Markham has been promoted to investment director. Since joining Graphite in 2017, she has worked on a variety of transactions in multiple sectors. Markham was previously with OC&C Strategy Consulting where she worked on mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategy across consumer, business services and the TMT sectors.   Graphite has also appointed Zoe Jackson investment executive and May Sulaiman investment manager.   Jackson joined Graphite in June from Barclays Investment Bank where she worked in the UK mergers and

JMP Group, an investment banking and alternative asset management firm, has appointed Staci Slaughter to the company’s board of directors, effective 5 November, 2020. Slaughter, who will serve as a member of the board’s corporate governance and nominating committee, takes JMP Group’s board to ten directors, six of whom are independent. “We’re very happy to welcome Staci as a member of our board,” says Joe Jolson, chairman and CEO of JMP Group. “Staci is an accomplished leader with broad experience in operations, strategy, and communications for a major enterprise. Her strengths will complement the skills of our other directors, and her

Experienced investment funds and corporate lawyer Dilmun Leach has joined Walkers’ Jersey team as a Group Partner.Dilmun, who joins as a lateral partner hire from another Jersey firm, becomes the fourth partner in the growing investment funds and corporate team alongside Jonathan Heaney, Christopher Reed and Leanne Wallser.     Dilmun advises clients in London, the US and the Channel Islands on the establishment and restructuring of investment funds, and on complex corporate, private equity and capital markets transactions, as well as on complex financial services regulatory issues He is recognised by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and IFLR1000 and is