DC Advisory has doubled its team in Northern England with the addition of eight new hires in the last 12 months into its Manchester office. New hires include Anthony Greensmith as Vice Chairman (previously of Montagu Private Equity), Andrew Claymore as Managing Director of Financial Services in the UK, Rob Jones joins to head up the Capital Advisory offering across the North of England and Ben Jones as Origination Lead for the Manchester office. This is in addition to four junior members joining the team including Luka Hennin, Charlie Tuttle, Tom Street and Jimmy Warburton.   These hires are unsurprising

SME direct lender Beechbrook Capital has appointed Paul Whitehouse as investment director to head up deal origination and execution activity across the Midlands. With over 30 years’ experience, Whitehouse joins from Lloyds Banking Group, where he spent the last two decades focusing on corporate and leveraged finance transactions across the Midlands.   As well as his transaction experience, Paul brings an extensive network of contacts in the professional and business communities in both the West and East Midlands.   Paul Shea, Beechbrook managing partner, says: “We are delighted to have Paul on board to enhance our UK origination platform. The

Sverica Capital Management, a growth-orientated private equity firm focused on the lower middle market, has promoted Ryan Harstad and Gregg Osenkowski to the position of Partner, effective immediately. With over 11 years of experience in the private equity space, Harstad joined the Sverica San Francisco office 2011. He focuses on sourcing and evaluating new investments, transaction execution and portfolio company operations for technology, technology services and software companies.   Osenkowski joined Sverica’s Boston office in 2006 and focuses on sourcing and managing healthcare investments. He has thirteen years of private equity experience and currently sits on the Board of Women’s

ACA Compliance Group (ACA) is expanding its European presence with the opening of a new office in Birmingham. The office will allow ACA to offer a full suite of services designed to strengthen and streamline financial services firms’ governance, risk and compliance arrangements.   Key to the services offered from the Birmingham office will be ACA’s Analysis and Review Centre (ARC). The ARC helps to reduce the workload of CCOs and in-house compliance teams by allow them to pass on executional regulatory responsibilities to ACA. This on-demand service aims to provide an efficient, scalable and cost-effective compliance across the UK.

Maven Capital Partners (Maven), one of the UK’s leading SME finance providers, has added to its team with the appointment of James Rosthorn and Dean Cox as Investment Managers. Chartered Accountant, Rosthorn, joins Maven as an Investment Manager based in the Manchester and Lancashire offices and will be responsible for new investments across the North of England. Prior to joining Maven, he was a Corporate Finance Advisor at Top 10 Accounting firm, Mazars, where he advised owner managed businesses on sales, acquisitions, fundraising and MBOs.   Qualified Solicitor and Corporate Finance Masters, Cox, is Maven’s second appointment to the investment

KKR has made new leadership appointments in its flagship private equity businesses in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Henry Kravis and George Roberts, Co-Chief Executive Officers and Co-Founders of KKR, say: “While our firm has evolved over the years, private equity is where it all began. Today, this asset class remains as important as ever as it continues to support companies and communities and meet the critical needs of our fund investors. We believe these promotions will enable us to maintain our leadership in private equity for decades to come.”   KKR currently has USD75 billion in private equity assets

Ocorian, a provider of trust, administration and fiduciary services to corporate, institutional and private investors has appointed Pamela Valasuo as Head of Sales for Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Valasuo brings over 20 years’ experience of professional and financial services experience to Ocorian and will lead the business development strategy for the region.   A native English and Finnish speaker, Valasuo has previously held various senior management roles with several established service providers in Luxembourg. She holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Buckingham and Stellenbosch University respectively and has also completed INSEAD’s International

MSIF, a Liverpool-based SME fund which this week celebrates 25 years in business, is to merge the team of investment company SPARK Impact Limited with its regulated fund management subsidiary Alliance Fund Managers (AFM). The agreement will see SPARK Impact Director Mark Borzomato appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AFM, and an experienced equity investment team of Marc d’Abbadie, Jerry Mobbs and Lynsey Barnes join the existing AFM business.   Borzomato, who has over 24 years’ corporate advisory and investment experience and who has worked for MSIF twice before, says: “I am delighted to be back and incredibly excited