HIG Capital (HIG), a global private equity investment firm with over EUR34 billion of equity capital under management, has appointed Pascal Meysson as a Managing Director and Head of HIG WhiteHorse Europe, HIG’s direct lending European affiliate.Pascal has 24 years of investing experience overall including 16 years in the European direct lending market. Prior to joining HIG, he was a Managing Director at Alcentra, where he was a founding member of the European direct lending platform. Before Alcentra, he was with Deutsche Bank and Charterhouse in London. Commenting on the addition, John Bolduc, Executive Managing Director, who oversees HIG’s credit platform, says,

HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has appointed Rob MacGoey as the chief financial officer (CFO) of the Firm’s Management Company. MacGoey will work alongside Karin Lagerlund, current CFO, who will focus on client and fund accounting, treasury and capital markets. “As our Firm has continued to grow, our corporate finance and fund administration function has increased in size and complexity,” says John Toomey, Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners. “To support our future growth, we made the decision to split the finance function between the funds, under Karin’s continued leadership, and the management company, under Rob’s leadership. This change will

Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has made two new senior appointments to the Group’s Private Equity team –n Paul Watson has been appointed as a Director, while Alexandra Prince has assumed the role of Associate Director.With 20 years’ experience in international finance, Watson brings expertise in the planning and delivery of complex transformational programmes to the Group. Previously a principal consultant with a Channel Islands-based change management consultancy, he has held senior positions with Sanne and HSBC in the UK, the Channel Islands and Bermuda. In his new role, Watson will be responsible for the provision

Avista Capital Partners (Avista), a private equity firm focused exclusively on healthcare, has appointed Steve Schiess and William E Klitgaard to the firm’s operating executive team. As Operating Executives, Schiess and Klitgaard, who bring decades of experience in the healthcare industry, will play active roles in sourcing investment opportunities and building, growing and transforming Avista’s healthcare investments. Building off his successful career in the dental industry, Schiess will focus on investment opportunities and businesses in the Medical Devices & Technologies sub-sector. On the heels of Avista’s recent investment in the Healthcare Information Technology (“HCIT”) space, XIFIN, Klitgaard will focus on HCIT and Outsourced

Keensight Capital, a private equity manager dedicated to pan-European growth buyout investments, has appointed Stéphane Jamin as a Director.Jamin benefits from 10 years of experience both in the industry and in strategic consulting. Alongside the investment team, he will support portfolio company managers in the fields of operational excellence, commercial strategy, organisation, internationalisation, and more broadly will help them create value through profitable growth.  Prior to joining Keensight Capital, Jamin was a Manager at Kearney where he advised executive committees and led strategy and transformation projects for leading international players and medium-sized companies with a focus on healthcare, manufacturing, and

Michael Newton, Head of Institutional Client Operations at Crestbirdge, will move to Luxembourg to support the growth of the company’s Fund Services team.As Head of Institutional Client Operations, Newton is part of Crestbridge’s senior leadership team. His role has been extended so he is also responsible for growing the fund services offering from Luxembourg, where he will spend four days a week with the remaining time in Jersey, to support the firm’s growing, global fund client base. Newton will continue to oversee client facing activities within the Group’s fund, real estate and corporate services teams with a view to ensuring

Middle-market private equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has implemented a management succession plan designed to ensure LLCP’s longevity and continued success. Matthew Frankel and Michael Weinberg have been promoted to Managing Partners, responsible for LLCP’s global investment activities, including deal origination, sector strategy and portfolio management. Andrew Schwartz, a LLCP Partner, will also have an active role in managing the activities of the investment team.    Stephen Hogan and David Wolmer have been promoted to Executive Officers of LLCP’s management company, responsible for managing all day-to-day operations and global business affairs. Mr. Hogan has been promoted to President and

Peak Rock Capital (Peak Rock), a middle‐market private investment firm, has appointed Nicholas Basso as a Managing Director focused on credit investments. Basso will help to lead Peak Rock’s investments across corporate credit and grow the firm’s credit franchise. Peak Rock’s credit platform focuses on creative debt financings that require speed and certainty of execution.    Basso joins from Oaktree Capital Management, where he most recently served as a Managing Director in the Strategic Credit Group. He has led more than a billion dollars of investments in private credit, in addition to investing in various types of secondary opportunities.  While at Oaktree, he helped

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Orla Beggs as Partner, Human Capital. Beggs is former partner and head of the US People and Organization practice at PwC.Beggs’ responsibilities will include leading human resources at CD&R, as well as driving people and organisational related initiatives aligned with value creation at portfolio companies. She has advised CD&R and other private equity firms on transactions in both the US and Europe over the past 16 years. She has also served as a valued member of CD&R’s HR Council, a best practice sharing forum for portfolio company HR leaders. “Orla is a talented leader

Anastasia N Kaup has joined Duane Morris as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group in its Chicago office. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Kaup practiced at Mayer Brown LLP.“Anastasia is a hard-working, highly skilled lawyer with a strong commitment to her clients and her fellow attorneys,” says Matthew A Taylor, CEO and Chairman of Duane Morris. “She is a great fit with our collegial and collaborative culture and the level of client service we strive to achieve at the firm.”   “The addition of Anastasia to our strong and growing Corporate Practice Group will deepen our bench in