Investec Corporate and Investment Banking (Investec) has appointed Tobias Sommer to its Financial Sponsor Transaction Group and Jan Straube to its Growth & Leveraged Finance team, as the bank continues to grow its multi-product Financial Sponsors business.Sommer joins from Macquarie’s Financial Sponsor Coverage and Principal Transaction Group and will continue to cover financial sponsors at Investec, with a focus on the UK, DACH and Benelux. Straube joins from the Leveraged Finance team at Lloyds Bank, where he worked with listed and private companies as well as financial sponsors across the UK, Western Europe and the US. At Investec, he will

HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has made a series of promotions, including three new Managing Directors: Monique Austin, Simon Lund, and Nhora Otalora, as well as five new Principals and one Senior Vice President. These promotions recognise team members whose expertise contributes to the success of HarbourVest and its clients across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. “Our strong global team is the foundation of our business and a key component of our success,” says John Toomey, Managing Director, HarbourVest. “Investing in our team has enabled a keen focus on delivering outcomes for our clients, which continues to

Evercore (NYSE: EVR) has appointed Shane Gong as a Managing Director in the firm’s Private Capital Advisory group (PCA). Gong will be based in Singapore and lead the Firm’s PCA business across the Asia Pacific region, focusing on institutional investors and fund sponsors. Gong has over 20 years of experience in private equity and investment banking across Asia Pacific, most recently as Executive Director and head of the Singapore office of CPE Capital (formerly CHAMP Private Equity) where he was responsible for regional direct growth and buyout investments, investor relations and fundraising. Prior to CPE Capital, Gong worked at NM Rothschild

BMS Group (BMS), ab independent specialist (re)insurance broker, has appointed Sophie Wallace and Dean Andrews as Divisional Directors in the recently established Private Equity, M&A and Tax division. Andrews has also been appointed Head of Tax Liability Insurance, effective immediately.   Wallace and Andrews will report to Tan Pawar, who will be joining BMS as Managing Director of the division in June 2020, as announced in December 2019. The move forms part of BMS’s plan to expand into new lines and geographies following the significant investment it received from British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and Preservation Capital Partners.   Wallace brings

William Blair, a global boutique with expertise in investment banking, investment management, and private wealth management, has appointed veteran investment banker Bram Hall as a managing director in the firm’s global investment banking team.Hall joins William Blair’s growing Charlotte office, which has more than tripled in size since opening just two years ago. Over the past 20 years, Hall has been a leader in M&A advisory, delivering exceptional outcomes for close to 100 clients globally across multiple industry segments. Most recently, as co-founder of BlackArch Partners, an investment banking firm based in Charlotte, he was integral to growing the firm

Avedon Capital Partners has promoted Alexis Weege to partner. Weege has over 12 years of private equity experience since starting his career at NIBC Capital Partners. Weege e joined Avedon Capital Partners at the inception in 2011 and has strongly contributed to the development of the firm. He holds a MSc in Finance & Investments as well as a CEMS Master of International Management (MIM) from RSM Erasmus University and HEC in Paris. Avedon Capital Partners partner Alfred Tulp, says: “We are proud to announce the well-deserved promotion of Alexis Weege to partner. Alexis joined Avedon at inception and has grown

Jensen Partners, an executive search and corporate advisory firm for the alternative investment management industry, has appointed George Lewis as a Managing Director in the firm’s London office. This strategic new hire follows on from the recent announcement that Jensen Partners placed its own new Head of Europe, and provides the firm with a key, necessary resource to continue building out its London office and infrastructure investments practice. As former Director and lead of the infrastructure investments practice at AMC Executive Search, Lewis will now lead Jensen Partners’ infrastructure investments practice globally, spanning all areas of investments, fundraising, industry aligned asset

Private investment firm Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital) has appointed Joe Silver as Managing Director – Investor Relations. He will work from the firm’s Boca Raton office.“We are excited to have Joe join the Sun Capital team,” says Marc Leder, Co-CEO of Sun Capital Partners. “Joe’s expertise and proven ability to build strong relationships with investors will be an invaluable asset to our firm and our global network of limited partners.”   Silver brings more than 25 years of experience working with institutional investors, family offices, and advisors on investments in private equity and other alternative assets. Over the course

Sovereign Capital Partners, a UK private equity Buy & Build specialist, has appointed Emma Flin to its investment team. Flin, an Investment Director, will primarily be focused on the Business and Technology & Information services sectors, further deepening Sovereign’s capabilities in these areas. The early part of Flin’s career in M&A was with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and then UK Landsbanki Securities, the investment banking arm of Landsbankinn. She then spent the following 10 years with Capita plc as Corporate Development Director leading the Group’s acquisition and disposal activity. There she led large volumes of transactions across a wide range of sectors.

Experienced Corporate lawyer James Fox has joined Ogier as a partner based in the firm’s Jersey office.Fox has over 20 years’ experience of corporate legal work in the UK and Jersey and has acted for clients in a large number of M&A and IPO transactions as well as having experience in real estate investment structuring, fund formation and finance work. He has an extensive knowledge of the legal and regulatory regime in Jersey and is known for taking a commercial approach to delivering legal advice and solving legal issues for clients. Ogier’s Global Head of Corporate Nathan Powell says: “As