AutoProtect Group has appointed a new CEO and added automotive fintech firm DealTrak to its existing portfolio of motor assets. Owned by Correlation Investments Limited (CIL), AutoProtect Group is a leading provider of insurance and warranty products worldwide, and the re-organisation of CIL’s motor assets in December 2018 saw AutoProtect, SMART Insurance and Shine Repairs consolidated within the AutoProtect Group Ltd. The addition of finance and insurance (F&I) software platform, DealTrak, will see the Group’s services used by over 4,000 UK rooftops. With former AutoProtect Group Ltd CEO, Wil Beaumont, moving to the role of non-executive director, Matthew Briggs has

Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has appointed Wayne Jephson as a London-based Managing Director, to support the continued expansion of its Global Transaction Advisory Group. Jephson will specialise in providing financial due diligence services with a specific focus on infrastructure investors and private equity transactions. His expertise will complement A&M’s Global Transaction Advisory Group’s existing capabilities in markets across Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific, while enhancing the firm’s presence in the UK. With 18 years of experience, his appointment marks a significant milestone in the evolution of A&M’s Infrastructure Investors proposition, which is set to further

Global law firm Goodwin as appointed partner and Vice Chairman Stuart Cable to the newly created role of Global Chair of M&A. In this role, Cable will focus on introducing Goodwin’s industry-focused, global M&A and Corporate Governance practice to a broader set of clients, who are showing increasing demand for the firm’s unique capital-meets-innovation platform. “Over the course of his distinguished 40-year career at Goodwin, Stuart has played a central role in executing more than 300 M&A transactions, many of which were among the largest and most significant in the history of their respective industries,” says Rob Insolia, Chairman of

Alpha Associés Conseil (Alpha), led by Patrick Herman since 2017, has appointed Pierre‐Olivier Desplanches as Managing Director in France. Alpha has been present in France for more than thirty years and is now entering a new phase of development. Desplanches, (45), a graduate of Paris Dauphine, has spent most of his career in private equity having joined Arthur Andersen in 1997. In particular, he spent more than 18 years at Carlyle in France (from 1999 to August 2017) where he participated in the investment of the first four European LBO funds. After a stint at Montagu he was attracted by

Omnes has added two new analysts to its team – Guillaume Blavier, who joins the Venture Capital team under the management of Michel de Lempdes, Managing Partner, and Camille Léonard, who joins the Renewable Energy team under the management of Serge Savasta, Managing Partner. With more than 60 trade sales and nearly 15 IPOs in 20 years (including Novaled, Biovex, arGEN-X and Direct Energie), Omnes Venture Capital team is a leading French player in financing innovative SMEs with dual expertise in the deep-tech and healthcare sectors. Its current portfolio includes AB Tasty, BlaBlaCar, Scality and Sigfox. Omnes also focuses on

Alternative investment company Gulf Capital has promoted two senior executives, Mohammad Madani and Hazem Abu Khalaf, to the position of Managing Directors in its Private Equity division. The two leadership appointments come in recognition of Madani and Abu Khalaf’s contribution to the success of the Firm’s Private Equity business, having played a significant role in securing and closing substantial investments and creating growth opportunities for the Firm and its portfolio companies. Muhannad Qubbaj and Abdullah Shahin are stepping down from their current positions in order to pursue other interests. Hareb Al Darmaki, Chairman of Gulf Capital, says: “We are pleased

Monroe Capital has expanded its opportunistic private credit team with the addition of four experienced professionals – Jason Starr, Darrick Ginkel, Joseph Valickus in the New York office; and Chris Spanel in the Chicago office. “The growth in our Opportunistic Private Credit team is indicative of the increased demand for financing we are seeing in this area, especially as we enter the later stages of the current economic cycle,” says Aaron Peck, Managing Director and Co-Head of the Opportunistic Private Credit group at Monroe. “As the risk/return parameters for Opportunistic Private Credit become more and more attractive, we believe it

The Geneva-based asset management company DECALIA Asset Management has hired Reji Vettasseri as Lead Portfolio Manager for alternative funds and mandates invested in private markets. Vettasseri is an experienced private debt and private equity investor with more than 14 years’ industry experience. He joins DECALIA from Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners. Identifying investments in unlisted markets is one of the areas of expertise developed by DECALIA, allowing it to offer investors advantaged solutions in the current environment of negative interest rates, economic slowdown and high stock market valuations.   Before joining DECALIA, Vettasseri was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley