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Keensight Capital, one of the leading private equity managers dedicated to pan-European Growth Buyout investments, strengthens its team with the appointment of Dr. Edwin Moses and José Luis Martín as Operating Partners.Edwin Moses’ appointment follows a very successful career as a biopharma entrepreneur, with decades of experience in building successful businesses. Among various achievements, he led the IPO for Ablynx and OAI (Oxford Asymmetry International), companies which he built and managed as CEO.
José Luis Martín was responsible for the development and implementation of corporate strategy at Werfen. For more than thirty years, he played a lead role in transforming
Global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has hired Ariel White-Tsimikalis to bolster its London M&A and Corporate Finance team.White-Tsimikalis joins from Davis Polk & Wardwell where she advised banks, corporates and private equity funds on equity capital markets transactions, corporate governance matters and general public company representation. Ariel has extensive experience having worked at Latham & Watkins and undertaken secondments to the in-house legal teams at Jefferies, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs.
Deputy Departmental Managing Partner Simon Beddow says: “We are delighted to be welcoming Ariel to the team. Her extensive equity capital markets experience further strengthens our team and continues
Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) has appointed Colin Day as a senior advisor. In his new role, Day will work with the SGE team directly and support SGE portfolio company management teams on matters that are driving their businesses.Day is the founder, chairman, and former CEO of iCIMS, a cloud platform for recruitment software solutions. With more than 1,000 employees and USD250 million in annual recurring revenue, iCIMS has grown to become the largest provider of hiring software and stands among Forbes’ top 100 fastest-growing private cloud companies in the country. iCIMS has expanded its product portfolio with multiple company acquisitions under
KKR has appointed Nicholas Hyde as a Managing Director to lead the firm’s Client Partner Group in Australia and New Zealand.Hyde will be responsible for managing and expanding KKR’s client relationships in Australia and New Zealand, raising capital for the Firm’s private and public markets strategies, and leading new business development for the region. He will be based in Sydney and will work closely with members of KKR’s senior team in Australia and the region, including Scott Bookmyer, Head of KKR Australia, and Diane Raposio, Head of KKR’s Client and Partner Group in Asia Pacific and Head of KKR’s regional
MGG Investment Group (MGG), a private direct lending investment firm, has appointed Eran Cohen, former Managing Director on the loan originations team at Wells Fargo Capital Finance, as a Managing Director. Cohen is based in Chicago and reports to Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer Kevin Griffin.
Cohen has nearly 30 years of credit transaction experience, including originating loans across the capital structure to middle market businesses throughout market cycles for private equity firms, large corporations, turnarounds, and distressed companies. Cohen is MGG’s fourth senior hire over the past year, joining Managing Directors Patrick Flynn, former Managing Director at
Global cybersecurity and advanced technologies investor, Paladin Capital Group, has expanded its European operations with two strategic appointments, Pratima Aiyagari, Director, and Conor O’Sullivan, Vice President, who will focus on European investment opportunities for Paladin’s Cyber Funds.Aiyagari and O’Sullivan will work alongside team lead, Ken Pentimonti, Principal, who has been developing Paladin’s presence in Europe since 2015, and Francois Ruether, Associate, who joined earlier this year.
A software developer by background, Aiyagari joins Paladin from Cisco’s corporate development group in Europe where she led investments and acquisitions with a focus on artificial intelligence/machine learning and enterprise collaboration. Previously, Aiyagari spent
Morgan Lewis has added a four-lawyer team resident in London with wide-ranging private investment funds experience. The team, which arrives from another global law firm, includes partners Oliver Rochman and Rob Mailer and two associates.
“The arrival of Oliver, Rob, and their team further enhances our robust global investment management team with more than 150 lawyers around the world,” says firm chair Jami McKeon. “Their comprehensive experience and skills will be of great value to our investment fund and institutional investor clients as they navigate through this period of uncertainty and look ahead to future opportunities.”
Rochman advises both
Aquilino Peña, founding parner of Kibo Ventures, has been appointed as president of the Spanish Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (ASCRI) for the 2020-2022 period. Aquilino will replace Miguel Zurita, Managing Partner & Co-CIO at Altamar Capital.
Kibo Ventures is a venture capital firm with EUR115 million in AUM and which has invested in more than 50 high-growth companies such as Flywire, Carto, Job&Talent, Devo, Defined Crowd or Paack, among others. Kibo Ventures is a firm with an international profile, with portfolio companies based in Spain, USA, UK, Canada, Portugal and Germany, and which has co-invested together with more than
Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has announced two senior appointments to the Group’s Private Debt leadership team. James Vella-Bamber has been appointed as Group Head of Private Debt, while Peter Brown has assumed the role of Head of Private Debt in Luxembourg.
Based in Luxembourg, Vella-Bamber will have overall responsibility for the ongoing development of the Group’s Private Debt offering, overseeing relationship management, operations and business development activity. James joined the Group in Jersey in 2016, before relocating later that year to assume the role of Head of Real Assets in Luxembourg. He previously held positions at
Strait Fund Services (STRAIT) has strengthened its compliance offering for hedge fund and private equity clients with the appointment of Michael Barakat.Read the full story at Hedgeweek…
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