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The Maples Group’s law firm, Maples and Calder, has appointed Heidi de Vries as the Managing Partner of its London office. De Vries (pictured) will take office on 1 December 2019, succeeding Paul Govier who is retiring from the firm.
Govier joined the firm 17 years ago and will continue to support the London office in a consultancy capacity until November 2020.
With immediate effect, de Vries will assume the position of Joint Managing Partner, working alongside Govier and will take on the role of sole Managing Partner from 1 December 2019.
De Vries has extensive investment funds’ expertise
Alternative asset manager Gresham House has appointed Geoff Lambert as Head of Compliance, effective 19 August 2019. Based out of the firm’s London office, Lambert will report to Samee Khan, General Counsel and Company Secretary of Gresham House.
Lambert joins Gresham House from Nikko Asset Management Europe (NAME), where he was responsible for leading the compliance team to ensure NAME met all its regulatory responsibilities, implementing MAR regulation and conducting ongoing project work for MiFID II, including project implementation. Lambert has more than a decade of industry experience, having previously held compliance roles at Henderson Global Investors and Royal London Asset
Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) specialist Hirtle Callaghan has appointed Stephen Vaccaro as Director of Private Equity.
Vaccaro is an accomplished investment professional with more than 15 years of experience in endowment management and consulting, including the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and BCG.
Vaccaro is working closely with Hirtle Callaghan’s investment team to oversee private equity investment efforts on behalf of the firm’s family, endowment, foundation, healthcare, and pension clients. He reports to Dan McCollum, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, who leads the firm’s manager selection and is himself an endowment veteran, having joined Hirtle Callaghan from Brown University.
Independent fund servicing provider Ultimus Fund Solutions (Ultimus) has appointed Nickolaus Darsch as Senior Vice President of Business Development.
In this role, Darsch will be responsible for building and strengthening strategic relationships with investment managers that can benefit from the Ultimus offering.
Darsch will focus on aligning the Ultimus suite of services to meet the needs of registered fund sponsors, primarily in the range of USD5 billion and USD50 billion in assets under management. In addition, he will help Ultimus further cultivate its relationships with the community of consultants, audit and legal firms, and other centers of influence that work
Blackstone has appointed Limin Wang as a Managing Director on the Quantitative Research team in Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM).
Limin joins from Laurion Capital Management, where he spent four years as a Portfolio Manager. Prior to that, he spent over ten years with Credit Suisse as a director on their proprietary trading desk. He also has held roles at Lehman Brothers and at Columbia University, where he served as a research scientist in theoretical physics. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPhil/MA in Physics from Columbia University, and a BA in Physics
Flare Capital Partners, a healthcare technology venture capital firm, has appointed healthcare technology executive and entrepreneur Ian Chiang as a Principal.
Chiang has focused on the transformation of healthcare throughout his career. He joins Flare Capital after having served as a Senior Vice President and a founding member of CareAllies, Cigna’s family of multi-payer provider services, population health management, and home-based care businesses
“Given Ian’s extensive experience in the healthcare technology sector, we are thrilled to welcome him to the investment team. In addition to his work with Cigna’s CareAllies, Ian has been a healthcare entrepreneur and has spent five
Global law firm Goodwin has appointed Lauren King as a partner in the firm’s Private Investment Funds practice in New York.
King focuses on the organisation and operation of private investment funds. She represents a wide variety of funds with extensive cross-border components, including secondary, buyout, real estate, special-opportunity, hybrid, credit and venture capital funds. King also advises private asset managers on the full spectrum of corporate matters, including governance, upper-tier structuring, succession planning, marketing and limited-partner transfers. Additionally, she represents secondary investors in connection with general partner-led restructurings and other secondary transactions. King has significant private equity and joint
Corporate and funds lawyer Andrew Tually has rejoined Carey Olsen’s its Singapore office.
Tually began working in the firm’s Guernsey office in 2007 before relocating to Carey Olsen in Singapore in 2017. Following a year with one of the leading commercial law firms in Australia, Tually returns as counsel in Carey Olsen’s Singapore corporate and funds practice to provide specialist Cayman Islands and Guernsey legal advice to the firm’s growing Asia client base.
Tually has over 12 years’ experience in connection with the structuring, formation and provision of ongoing advice to open-ended and closed-ended collective investment schemes, including private
Global law firm Goodwin has appointed Ali Ramadan as a partner in the firm’s Technology practice based in London.
Ramadan has broad technology experience spanning the corporate life cycle. In particular, he focuses on venture capital, cross-border M&A and private equity transactions for technology businesses. He is ranked as an “Up and Coming” and as a recommended individual for venture capital in the Chambers and Legal 500 directories. His clients include start-ups, high-growth companies and investors (both institutional and corporate) operating in the technology, fintech, proptech and digital media industries.
“London remains the largest destination for capital invested in Europe,” says
Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm focused on investments in the global financial services industry, has promote Scott Shebelsky to Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Shebelsky joined the firm in 2015 as Vice President of Finance and Chief Compliance Officer.
“We are pleased to recognise Scott’s significant contributions and proven leadership of our financial, accounting and compliance functions,” says Steve Pierson, Managing Partner at Lovell Minnick Partners. “Scott has also led important technology-driven initiatives that have helped improve the firm’s operational efficiency. His promotion reflects our continued emphasis on further building our senior leadership talent as we continue to grow,
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