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Stephens, an independent and family-owned investment bank, has continued the expansion of its European capabilities with the addition of a highly experienced consumer sector professional Robert Horton.
Sanne, a global provider of alternative asset and corporate business services, has made three appointments in its Jersey office across its Real Assets, Private Equity and Business Development divisions.
The appointments come at a time when Sanne assertively targets further growth in the alternative asset and corporate business services market having recently announced growth in underlying operating profit in the company’s half year results.
Archie Irtizaali, joins Sanne as Director, Business Development, Jersey. In his new role, he will be responsible for the coordination of strategic intermediary relationship initiatives working in collaboration with Sanne’s global business development teams. Irtizaali has
LDC, a UK mid-market private equity investor, has strengthened its team in the Midlands with the appointment of Mark Howden as Investment Director.
Howden brings over 20 years’ experience to the firm and a diverse background spanning strategic roles within industry and corporate finance, where he specialised in both M&A and restructuring. His appointment further strengthens the LDC team in the Midlands.
He joins from Bentley Motors, where he was Chief Strategy Officer responsible for development of their ‘Beyond100’ corporate strategy, their restructuring programme and the business’ response to the COVID-19 crisis.
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Austin-based private equity investment firm CenterGate Capital (CenterGate), has promoted Jeff Kovick to Managing Director and Michael Smith has to Principal.
Tiffany Kosch, Managing Partner at CenterGate Capital, says: “Jeff and Michael have made exceptional contributions to the firm and these promotions are well deserved. We look forward to their continued value creation for our limited partners, management partners, and firm employees.”
Both these senior leadership team members will continue to focus on evaluating investment opportunities, performing transaction due diligence, and working with portfolio company management teams to implement operational and growth strategies.
Private markets asset management firm Hamilton Lane has appointed longtime Managing Director Paul Yett to the role of Director of ESG & Sustainability.
Hamilton Lane has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to ESG, sustainability and responsible investing, and Yett will focus on expanding and formally spearheading the firm’s ESG integration strategy going forward.
His responsibilities will include managing ESG integration throughout the investment processes across the Fund, Direct Investment, Secondary, Real Asset and Direct Credit teams; driving ESG policy development and advising deal teams during due diligence; supporting clients, government entities and other stakeholders in regards to ESG and sustainability
BMS Group, an independent specialist (re)insurance broker, has appointed Jason Stone as Managing Director, BMS Canada Private Equity, M&A division, effective immediately.
Stone will report to Brian Gomes, President & CEO of BMS Canada, and will be based in Toronto.
Stone will lead the Canadian Private Equity and M&A team and focus on expanding BMS’s global private equity and M&A platform and will sit on the BMS Global PEMAT Executive Committee.
Stone joins BMS from Aon, where he most recently served as senior vice president at the M&A and Transaction Solutions team, specialising in placements of transaction liability
Alantra has expanded its Investment Banking team with the addition of César Ciriza as Managing Partner and will head of its infrastructure and energy activity.
Ciriza is a renowned banker specialising in infrastructure and energy transactions and brings over 20 years of investment banking experience to the role. Before launching his own investment boutique in 2019, Ciriza founded and led Evercore’s Iberian operations for seven years as Managing Director. He has successfully advised on transactions worth over EUR150 billion including M&A, sales, acquisitions, restructurings, IPOs, debt issuances and debt and equity advisory.
Alantra has advised on infrastructure and energy transactions
Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) has appointed David Spitz as a Senior Adviser in the firm’s Portfolio Value Creation team. In this role, Spitz will mentor and support SGE portfolio company leadership teams while helping SGE extend relationships with entrepreneurs in the Carolinas and beyond.
Spitz is the CEO of ChannelAdvisor (NYSE: ECOM), an e-commerce cloud platform that for nearly two decades has helped brands and retailers worldwide improve their online performance by expanding sales channels, connecting with consumers, optimising their operations for peak performance, and providing actionable analytics to improve competitiveness.
During his time at ChannelAdvisor, Spitz has overseen
Louise Lawlor has been appointed as Group Chief Financial Officer at Centaur Fund Services in Dublin.Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
LBO France has appointed Thibaud Nonotte-Varly as Investor Relations Director, effective 1 September 2020.Nonotte-Varly is joining LBO France from Rothschild & Co, where he was Investor Relations Director for eight years.
LBO partnered with lower and middle market Private Equity specialists Raw Selection on making the appointment and in particular Founder and Managing Partner Alex Rawlings.
“We worked with Raw Selection to secure an Investor Relations Director for our PE Firm,” says Sophie Chateau, Head of Investor Relations at LBO France. “Alex discussed the search with us in full and provided us with a good shortlist of profiles from a
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