BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has added to its EMEA Private Markets team with the appointments of Greg Kok and Robert Burchett-Coates. Kok joins BNY Mellon Asset Servicing as Director, Private Equity, Real Estate, Debt and Infrastructure from Maitland, where he was Head of Management Company Services. He has previously worked for FundRock Group and Franklin Templeton in a wide range of operational, risk and portfolio management roles within the alternatives sector. Burchett-Coates joins BNY Mellon Asset Servicing as Director, Private Equity, Real Estate and Infrastructure. He was previously a Director at an independent trust, fiduciary and fund service specialist. He

Stephens has further enhanced its European corporate finance advisory team with the hiring of experienced industry professional Simon Tilley on its European investment banking team. Privately-held Stephens began with an independent financial services firm founded in the US in 1933, and later established an investment banking presence across the Atlantic in 2014 – opening offices in London and Frankfurt. Stephens’ international corporate finance advisory business is led by a highly experienced team of professionals with expertise across many sectors, geographies and types of transactions. Tilley assumes the role of Managing Director, responsible for European sponsor coverage. Tilley has joined Stephens

Gide has appointed Caroline Lan and Jean-François Louit as partners in the firm’s M&A practice.  Lan and Louit are experienced in the structuring and implementation of management packages, incentive plans and employee shareholder plans related to IPOs and private equity operations, and more generally on matters of governance and executive compensation. They have advised management on major transactions involving listed and non-listed companies, such as: the merger of Idemia and Morpho; the acquisition of IPH by Advent; the takeovers of Primonial by Bridgepoint, of April by CVC and of Harvest by Five Arrows; CDPQ’s investment in Delachaux; and the spin-off

Alternative asset manager Gresham House has appointed Richard Staveley as Managing Director in its Strategic Public Equity team, effective immediately. With over two decades of fund management experience, Staveley joins Gresham House from Majedie Asset Management, where he spent six years running small companies’ investments within the Group’s flagship UK equity offering.   Prior to this, he was a Founding Partner of River and Mercantile Asset Management, responsible for the top quartile-performing UK Small Company and UK Income Funds and helped to grow assets under management to over GBP2 billion. He has also served as Head of UK Small Companies

HGGC, a middle market private equity firm, is making four promotions and expanding its team with twelve new hires across the operations and investment functions.  These additions – all of whom come to HGGC from blue-chip financial and business brands – will help ensure that HGGC has the talent and bandwidth to execute its successful investment strategy and foster portfolio company value creation as it continues its growth trajectory.   “As we continue to grow our portfolio and build value in our companies, we’re very excited that we have been able to continue to recruit and retain some of the

Growth Capital Partners (GCP), a partnership-focused investor, has appointed Michael Gray as Origination Director.  Gray joins GCP from A&M Capital where he was Head of Origination. With 12 year’s private equity experience, Gray previously spent four years as Head of Sponsor Coverage at Grant Thornton, responsible for providing deal flow, ideas, insights to PE clients. Prior to this, he worked at Lyceum Capital a mid-market private equity investor, responsible for driving their off-market origination across a number of sectors. Gray, says: :I am delighted to join GCP having known a number of the team for many years and look forward

Australian-founded, London-based investment and corporate advisory group Mayfair 101 has made two significant appointments to its advisory board – Mark Cliffe, Chief Economist at ING Bank, and Kirsty Rutter (pictured), former Head of Innovation at Barclays bank. Mayfair 101 founder and Managing Director, James Mawhinney, says: “The appointment of two of the UK’s leading financial experts to the Mayfair 101 Advisory Board is a powerful signal to validate the innovative approaches Mayfair 101 is taking to create value for its investors. “We are particularly excited about this additional strategic depth as it provides our portfolio companies with access to world-class