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UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has made a senior appointment to its investment team in the South of England with Luke Matthews joining the firm as an Investment Director.
Matthews has two decades’ experience in investment and corporate finance, helping potential high-growth businesses access finance.
This appointment further strengthens Maven’s SME offering and illustrates its commitment and ability to invest in companies across the UK regions. Luke will be responsible for growing Maven’s presence in the region, including increasing assets-under-management, sourcing VCT opportunities and MBO investments and deploying capital in high quality businesses.
Prior to
Ocorian, a provider of trust, administration and fiduciary services to corporate, institutional and private investors, has made three senior additions to its management team in Luxembourg – Susana Carvalho – Associate Director, Head of Funds Operations, Emmanuelle Poret – Head of Client Onboarding, and Rachel Aguirre – Head of Luxembourg Operations.
Managing Director and Head of Luxembourg and The Netherlands, Jean-Marie Bettinger, says: ‘We are delighted that Susana, Emmanuelle and Rachel have joined us at such an exciting time for the Luxembourg office. Their impressive experience and expertise will help us to continue to offer a high-level of client service and will also help
Vistra, a global trust, fund administration and corporate services provider, has appointed Jervis Smith as Country Managing Director of Vistra Luxembourg, effective 17 September 2019.
Smith will be responsible for leading Vistra’s Luxembourg office and growing the business, together with the Vistra office in The Netherlands, in order to maximise joint opportunities between the two offices, which share a mutual base of clients and culture. Based in Luxembourg, he will report to Vincent Bremmer, Regional Managing Director, Europe, Vistra.
Commenting on the appointment, Bremmer says: “Emerging as a jurisdiction of choice for corporations, institutional investors and private individuals amid
Alternative investment fund management company REDSIDE has appointed Petr Dudycha as a Marketing & Public Relations Manager.
Prior to joining REDSIDE, Dudycha was employed at the Prague office of a global law firm White & Case where he served as a Business Development and Marketing Coordinator. In this role, he was responsible to support lawyers and partners from Bank and Finance and Financial Restructuring and Insolvency practice groups in their business development and marketing activities as well as in event management.
Dan Ledvinka, Group Head of Business Development and Marketing in ASB Group, says: “I am pleased to welcome
Muzinich & Co. has appointed Peter Andersson (picture) as Head of Nordics.
Based in London, Peter will focus on developing the firm’s presence in the Nordics in both the institutional and wholesale segments of the market.
Peter has over two decades of industry experience, and has spent the last 10 years at Legg Mason, most recently as Managing Director, Head of Nordics and New Markets (EMEA).
“Muzinich has a breadth of expertise in both the public and private credit markets and a long history managing innovative fixed income strategies,” said Peter. “The firm is ideally placed to work
Ogier has announced four promotion across its banking and finance, investment funds and corporate law teams in Luxembourg.
With Nicolas Mille (pictured) being promoted to Counsel, Fiona Keating to managing associate, and Rebecca Macé-Balebs and Sandra Mohand-Oussaid to senior associate, Ogier says the promotions reflect the Luxembourg team’s wealth of international experience and ability to deliver client service at the level required by international institutional clients.
Ogier’s practice partner in Luxembourg, Dan Richards, says: “Since the opening of Ogier’s Luxembourg office in 2012 – the first to be established by an offshore firm – we have grown from two
Angelo, Gordon, a USD34 billion alternative investment firm focused on credit and real estate investing, has appointed Michiel von Saher as a managing director based in London.
In this role, Mr von Saher is responsible for leading European performing credit research and identifying credit investment opportunities across the region. He will work alongside Managing Director and Portfolio Manager Steven Paget, who joined the Firm in 2018 to lead the build out of Angelo Gordon’s European Performing Credit business with Global Head of Performing Credit Maureen D’Alleva and Head of Europe Daniel Pound.
“Michiel is an industry veteran whose decision
London-based energy investment firm Exergy Capital has appointed Bob McGuire as a Senior Adviser to the firm.
McGuire, who joined Exergy in July, has previously held roles as head of Goldman Sachs’ and JPMorgan’s European energy and power groups, head of UK investment banking at JPMorgan and managing director and head of Europe at US private equity firm CCMP Capital. Most recently, he founded Longwing Partners in 2017, a China-focused financial advisory firm. In addition to his leadership positions at market-leading global investment banks and in the private equity industry, McGuire has gained extensive board experience in his distinguished career.
TigerRisk Partners, a risk, capital and strategic advisor to the global insurance and reinsurance industries, thas appointed James Few to become CEO of its London office. He will report to Rob Bredahl, President and COO.
“James Few is a proven leader within the reinsurance industry,” says Bredahl. “He played a key role in the development of Aspen Re, created a range of innovative ILS structures, was chairman of the RAA… the list goes on. In short, he is at the cutting edge of modern risk transfer and is ideally qualified to help grow TigerRisk into the industry’s leading broker/advisor.”
Business advisory firm Quantuma has launched a Transaction Services practice, appointing Jonathan Thornton as head of the team.
Thornton has over 25 years’ experience working within a big four accountancy firm, primarily in transaction services. He has extensive international experience, having lived and worked in Russia, the Czech Republic, Romania and Qatar and worked on deals across Europe, the Middle East and the US.
Throughout his career, Thornton has worked on a range of transactions of various sizes, ranging from SMEs, up to multi-billion-pound international businesses. Notable deals include the IPOs of O2 and FTSE 100 company, ENRC, alongside
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