Cavendish Corporate Finance, a UK’s mid-market M&A firm and part of the finnCap Group, has appointed Jamie Blewitt to head its new Alternative Capital division, which will provide family offices and other private capital funds with a bespoke range of services as well as attractive opportunities to back or acquire ambitious growth companies. The new division provides family offices with access to leading entrepreneurs, private companies and connected investment opportunities, either as lead sponsor or alongside like-minded investors, across a range of sectors with a focus on the mid-market. In addition, the finnCap Group now offers family offices a tailored suite

Sherpa Capital, an Iberian private equity firm focused on medium-sized companies, has appointed José Angel Medina as an Operating Partner in its Portfolio Management team. Medina’s main mission will be to add value to the investee companies by supporting management teams on their daily operations and helping them to transform their businesses.   With more than 20 years of experience in managing business transformation projects, Medina has been working as CFO and CEO performing interim functions in more than 25 industrial companies, most of them backed by different private equity funds and some of them in distressed situations. Furthermore, throughout his

Pemberton, a European private credit asset manager, backed by UK insurer Legal & General Group, has appointed Scott Hamilton, to the newly created role of Managing Director for North American Business Development. Hamilton will lead institutional client coverage and consultant relations for Pemberton’s European private debt strategies in the US and Canada.   Hamilton brings 19 years of experience of client coverage and structuring solutions across a range of alternative credit opportunities, most recently as Managing Director, Institutional Distribution, at Alcentra. He previously held senior roles at Bank of New York Mellon and Thomas Weisel Asset Management and earned a BA

Chartered accountants, haysmacintyre, has promoted Jon Dawson to Partner in the firm’s Creative, Media and Technology (CMT) team.Dawson trained and qualified at haysmacintyre, before specialising in the CMT sector, and has extensive experience working with entrepreneurial, scale-up businesses as well as listed groups. He has widespread experience working closely with clients as they go through a period of change, whether that be rapid growth, fundraising or an exit event. As well as acting as the Partner on audit engagements, Jon also manages a number of transactions for his clients within the CMT sector, including IPOs, acquisition due diligence, MBOs and

KPMG’s Private Equity Group in the UK has appointed three new partners and one associate partner to the business as it looks to grow its market share advising investors across all aspects of the investment lifecycle.Neil Coomber joins KPMG from PwC where he was a partner in the transaction services team, working for a range of blue-chip corporate and private equity clients. During his career, he has led a significant number of high-profile, complex and multi-national transactions, including a number of years spent working in New York.   Luke Anderson joins KPMG from SAP where he led their EMEA Private

Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 16 attorneys as partners of the firm, effective 1 November.The new partners illustrate the characteristics that have established Ropes & Gray as one of the world’s premier global law firms. They are proven industry leaders with deep knowledge of our clients’ businesses, and deliver exceptional results on our clients’ most important and complex matters.  They are also devoted stewards of the firm and committed to the communities we serve.     “During such an unprecedented year, the making of new partners is a wonderful moment to pause, celebrate and look to the future

Blackstar Capital has appointed Simon Smart to the role of Head of Credit and Special Situations and James Paul to Portfolio Manager. The hires are part of the continued growth phase of the specialist structured finance and working capital solutions provider.Smart will be responsible for expanding the company’s capabilities in providing innovative structured credit solutions to corporate clients as well as expanding Blackstar’s capabilities into special situations advisory and financing. Smart who previously worked for both Goldman Sachs, and most recently BTG Pactual, joins Blackstar having had a diverse career in the industry, from developing pioneering regulatory capital structures in

Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital investor, has promoted Mark Shepherd to Investment Manager in its London-based investment team. Shepherd joined Beringea in January 2019, bringing experience in growth investing and consulting having begun his career at Javelin, a retail and consumer strategy consultancy, and Phoenix Equity Partners, a growth-focused private equity firm.   In the past twelve months, Shepherd played a pivotal role in Beringea’s GBP3 million investment into Commonplace – a digital platform for community engagement – as well as a follow-on investment into DeepCrawl, an analytics platform for technical SEO. Shepherd has also focused on expanding Beringea’s network among

FlowStone Partners has appointed Mark Phillip as Managing Director and head of business development and investor relations efforts for the firm. Phillip brings nearly two decades of experience in commercialising and investing in liquid and illiquid alternative investment strategies. FlowStone Partners provides high-net-worth and family office investors with institutional-quality, highly diversified exposure to the private equity asset class through secondary, primary, and co-investment strategies. The FlowStone senior investment team has more than 65 years of combined private equity secondary and primary investment experience. “I am excited to join the FlowStone team, which is lowering the barriers to private equity investing for