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Schmitt focuses on the commercial tire market, light manufacturing, and other middle market industrial businesses, assisting companies with M&A activities, financing growth, and market consolidation on the buy or the sell side.
Prior to joining Skyway Capital Markets, Schmitt served in various senior management and executive positions with Michelin North America. With a career spanning 33 years at Michelin, his most recent roles were President of Michelin Retread Technologies, Inc. (MRTI), and Technical and Manufacturing director for Michelin Tweel Technologies. Michelin Tweel technologies is a new venture within Michelin to develop, manufacture and sell airless radial tires for commercial applications.
Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie has hired private equity partner Justin Hutchinson from Kirkland & Ellis, as part of the Firm’s continued efforts to drive growth across its transactional practices and increase the Firm’s bench-strength in London – one of the key centres for further investment alongside New York and China.
Hutchinson is an experienced cross-border transactional lawyer, having acted throughout his career on a broad range of control and minority investments, leveraged buyouts, management equity arrangements and disposals. His client base includes growth equity, large cap private equity and other financial sponsors, such as Bain Capital and Summit
Ares Management Corporation has appointed Michael Schechter as Partner and Head of Credit Trading.
Based in Los Angeles, Schechter will oversee the trading of all bank loans, high yield and related credit instruments in the US and Europe. In this new position, Schechter will work with Ares’ existing senior trading professionals, portfolio managers and management to set and execute Ares’ trading agenda.
“We are pleased to welcome Michael to Ares in his new position as the leader of our Credit Group’s trading team,” says Kipp deVeer, Partner and Head of the Ares Credit Group. “Michael brings extensive knowledge and deep
The Maples Group, a global service provider offering clients a comprehensive range of legal, fiduciary, fund, regulatory and compliance, and entity formation and management services, has recently appointed its thousandth member of staff.
Alasdair Robertson, Global Managing Partner of Maples and Calder, the Group’s law firm, says: “2019 has certainly been a memorable year for us. In addition to reaching this milestone, opening our Shanghai and Jersey offices following the successful launch of our Luxembourg legal practice, we also rolled out a complex rebrand.”
In January 2019, Maples and Calder and MaplesFS consolidated their offerings under a single brand, now
AMP Capital has appointed Ric Gordon as Head of Asset Management, Americas for its Infrastructure Equity business.
Gordon joins from Macquarie Capital, where he led asset management for the Americas, Europe and Asia since 2013. He has 15 years’ experience in private markets asset management, driving due diligence of investment opportunities, managing post-acquisition integration, and working with senior management to drive turnaround and performance improvement programs.
Gordon had worked at Macquarie Group since 2006, in Business Improvement & Strategy where he advised Group business units and portfolio companies of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets on business strategy and operational
The Investment Management Due Diligence Association (IMDDA), an investor-based organisation dedicated to the professionals who perform investment and operational due diligence, has appointed Kelly DePonte, Managing Director at Probitas Partners, to its Advisory Board.
“We are excited to welcome Kelly to the IMDDA Advisory Board,” says Andrew Borowiec, IMDDA Executive Director. “Kelly’s knowledge and expertise will be invaluable in helping to guide the IMDDA’s content for private funds.”
Based in San Francisco, DePonte is Managing Director at Probitas Partners, where he is responsible for research. With offices in San Francisco, New York, London, and Hong Kong, Probitas Partners is a
Ancala Midstream Acquisitions (Ancala Midstream) has appointed Eric Marston as Chief Operating Officer and Nick Harrison as Chief Financial Officer.
Ancala Midstream recently announced the acquisition of the Zennor-operated Finlaggan gas processing business and has grown its inventory of contracted gas volumes since taking operatorship of the SAGE system. The SAGE system now transports and processes gas from over 40 fields across the UK and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea.
Jim Halliday, Chief Executive of Ancala Midstream, says: “I am delighted to welcome Eric and Nick to the Ancala Midstream team. They bring a wealth of oil and gas industry
CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, has appointed Seema Dhanani and Benson Adenuga as Heads of Office for Kenya and Nigeria, respectively.
The appointees’ deep investment experience and strong local networks will be instrumental in advancing and accelerating CDC’s commitment to invest USD4.5 billion from 2018 – 2021 across Africa, creating impact that contributes directly towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
CDC has invested for impact in Africa for over 70 years. It deploys capital and technical expertise to support the responsible and commercial growth of businesses in some of the world’s most challenged markets where the potential for
Context Capital Partners, an alternative specialist firm with holdings and operating companies in various sectors of the alternatives space, has appointed Eric Noll as Chief Executive Officer of Context Capital Partners, with Ron Biscardi (pictured) shifting to become Chief Executive Officer of Context Summits on a full-time basis.
In his new role, Noll will be responsible for overall management of Context Capital Partners and its various holdings, growth initiatives and strategic partnerships. The addition of Noll will allow Biscardi, who has served as CEO of Context Capital Partners since 2005, to focus on the overall long-term strategic direction and continued growth and success
Ashfords has added to its Corporate team with the hire of Jocelyn Ormond, who will be joining as a partner at the firm’s Bristol office on 11 November.
Ormond was a partner at Simmons & Simmons and previously worked at another international firm and two magic circle firms. His appointment is a key hire for Ashfords and further strengthens the firm’s nationally recognised Technology and Venture Capital teams. He will be leading the firm’s focus on healthcare, augmenting its existing experience and expertise in this area and developing the digital health practice.
Ormond spent the first 10 years of
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