Private investment firm Baum Capital Partners has promoted four employees, including two to principals of the firm.Jon Biggs has been promoted from Vice President to Principal. Biggs works with business owners and managers, service providers, intermediaries and capital providers to originate, evaluate, execute and manage investments. Jon graduated with honours from Kansas State University with a bachelor’s degree in Finance.   Brian Coleman has been promoted from Vice President to Principal. Coleman works with business owners and managers, service providers, intermediaries and capital providers to originate, evaluate, execute and manage investments. He holds an MBA from Washington University in St

Investec Investment Banking & Securities (Investec) has made two new hires to its healthcare team. Jens Lindqvist and Brough Ransom both join from N+1 Singer, where they worked in healthcare sector research and sales respectively.Lindqvist is a fully-qualified medical doctor from Karolinska Institute (Sweden) with 20 years of capital markets experience in London. At N+1 Singer, Lindqvist spent more than ten years evaluating public and private equity in the UK life sciences sector, as well as originating mandates and helping to raise funds. Ransom also joins from N+1 Singer, where he was a specialist salesperson responsible for promoting healthcare stocks

Akin Gump has expanded its private equity and hedge fund practices in Asia with the relocation of partner Olivia Chung and senior counsel Divya Thakur from London and New York respectively, to the firm’s Singapore office… Read the full story at Hedgeweek…

CAPZA, a major European private investment platform focused on SMEs, today has appointed Oliver Nell as Flex Equity Partner in Germany.Nell, who has a strong track record in the German mid-cap market will be responsible for origination, execution and monitoring of investments in the DACH region for CAPZA’s Flex Equity strategy. CAPZA’s Flex Equity funds offer flexible financing solutions combining majority or minority capital, convertible bonds and mezzanine to support small and mid-cap companies with EBITDA ranging from EUR3 million to EUR10 million in their development projects.  With this appointment, CAPZA further expands the geographical exposure of the Flex Equity

Stephen Welton, founder CEO of BGF, has been appointed by the company’s Board to the new role of Executive Chairman.  Welton has been responsible for the management and strategic direction of BGF since 2011 and will continue to focus on the expansion of the company, which has become the most active investor of growth capital in the UK and Ireland.    As part of the announced Board changes, Sir Nigel Rudd will retire as BGF Chairman in June 2020, at the end of his third term in the role. Sir Nigel became Chair when the company was founded and has

CEPRES has appointed Lauren Iaslovits, Co-Founder and former Chief Operating Officer of SunGard Investran, a shareholder in CEPRES since the Fall of 2019, has a Special Advisor to the CEPRES’ Board. Iaslovits is a serial entrepreneur and well-known personality in Private Capital Markets technology. Together with her father, Jose Sinai, she founded two well-known and transformative technology companies: Sinper corporation, developer of the first OLAP engine, TM1, which through a series of acquisitions now powers IBM’s planning and analytics and data mining suite and then Financial Technologies Inc, where she created Investran, the first accounting and administration system for Private

Man Global Private Markets (Man GPM), Man Group’s private markets investment business, has appointed Dawn Turner as a member of the firm’s Community Housing Advisory Committee. Turner is the sixth member of the Advisory Committee, which was formed in early 2019 to provide advisory support to Man GPM’s Community Housing investment team.   Turner has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry and expertise advising local governments, pension funds and impact fund managers on responsible investing. She is the former Chief Executive of the £30 billion investment management company Brunel Pension Partnership[1], a Local Government Pensions Scheme (LGPS)

SANNE has appointed San-Marie Greeff as Head of Sanne Group (Luxembourg) . and Christian Hertz as Head of LIS – a SANNE company. The appointments follow consistent growth as interest has continued to increase around the attractiveness of doing business in Luxembourg.   Effective 1 January 2020, San-Marie and Christian will be responsible for the strategic direction, management and delivery of the SANNE and LIS-AIFM Luxembourg business with specific focus on the on-going development of SANNE’s offering to ensure that clients receive superior service excellence and technical expertise.   San-Marie and Christian will lead the operations in the Luxembourg business which

Independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has appointed Joe Greenwell as Associate Director of Business Development.Based in the Group’s London office, Greenwell will be responsible for identifying and developing business opportunities in both the real assets and private debt sectors. In this position, he will work closely with client-facing teams and product specialists across the Group, playing a central role in determining strategy and commercial focus in these sectors. Greenwell joins the Aztec Group with more than 10 years’ experience supporting private debt, infrastructure, real estate and private equity clients. He is a Fellow of the Association

Private equity firm Ironwood Capital has appointed Patrick Patrell as an analyst. Patrell, who will be working on the firm’s Connecticut-focused investment activities is ,responsible for reviewing new investment opportunities, conducting research, performing financial modelling and due diligence, and ongoing portfolio management. Carolyn Galiette, president and chief investment officer at Ironwood Capital, says: “Prior to joining Ironwood as an analyst, Patrick served as an intern with both Cigna Investment Management and Ironwood.  We are pleased that his internship with us has turned out so well for Patrick and for the firm.” Patrell, who graduated from the University of Connecticut in May 2019 with