finnCap Group (finnCap), an adviser and broker to growth companies, has added two senior hires to its debt advisory team. Graham Cooke joins Debt Advisory from RBS/Natwest where he worked for 30 years. He has experience in corporate coverage and debt origination. Among his previous roles within RBS/Natwest, Graham was national head of debt origination in structured finance with a focus on the small to medium sized enterprise (SME) marketplace.   Krishan Raval joins Debt Advisory from Livingstone Partners. He has five years’ experience and brings specific expertise in sponsored and non-sponsored mid-market debt raise transactions including refinancings, recapitalisations and

SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on the specialty materials, chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors, has added several new investment professionals, including Jonathan Borell (Managing Director), Shawn Abrams (Operating Director), Dan Lory (Vice President), and Blake Shapskinsky (Associate).  Led by SK Managing Director Mario Toukan in partnership with Jonathan Borell, this newly assembled team will pursue the same sector-focused, operationally-intensive investment strategy that SK Capital is currently executing and will bring the global resources and deep industry expertise of SK Capital to lower middle market businesses.    “The lower middle market represents a large universe of opportunities for transformational

Dentons Boekel has strengthened its Banking and Finance practice in Amsterdam with the recruitment of Jacqueline Bell as a partner. She joined the Firm on 1 June, 2019. Bell is a finance lawyer who advises banks, financiers, leasing companies and borrowers on English law governed transactions. She is particularly well known for her capabilities in transport financing – including aviation, shipping and offshore financing – as well as commodities trading. Over the past four years, she has led a successful freelance advisory business, providing consulting services to clients such as ABN AMRO Bank, Dutch development bank FMO, and IPF Partners,

Dr Markus Boettcher, 52, a longstanding partner at Bain & Company and a high-profile consultant in the area of value creation for private equity portfolio companies, has joined EY (Ernst & Young) as a partner in Transaction Advisory Services.  In his new role, Boettcher will support leading private equity funds and their portfolio companies in Europe. A key focus of his advisory work will be value creation at private equity portfolio companies. He will also work on operational due diligence reviews.    Constantin M Gall, Head of Transaction Advisory Services in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, says: “With Markus Boettcher, we

PHD Equity Partners – the fund management arm of Dow Schofield Watts – has appointed Richard Evans as its new Finance Director. Evans joins from the London-based boutique advisory firm Strand Hanson, where he was COO. He.has over 30 years’ experience in banking and finance, having worked at BDO, led Brewin Dolphin’s Manchester corporate finance team for over a decade and been part of an FCA team working on the supervision of overseas investment banks.   Evans’ appointment comes as PHD Equity Partners prepares to start fundraising for its third equity fund. The firm, which has offices in the North

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) has appointed Nate Sleeper as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and David Novak and Rick Schnall as Co-Presidents, effective 1 January, 2020. Donald Gogel, CD&R’s current Chief Executive Officer, will continue to serve as Chairman. “I have worked closely with Nate, Dave and Rick for two decades and am confident in their abilities to carry the vision and values of the Firm forward,” says Gogel. “Today’s announcement reflects CD&R’s strong commitment to continuity, consistency and constancy of purpose. We have a very experienced group of senior professionals who range in age from their late 30s to 60s,

Private equity firm SFW Capital Partners (SFW) has appointed Terry Kelly, the former President of TA Instruments, as an Operating Partner.  Kelly will support SFW’s strategy to build leading Industrial and Healthcare Technology companies with a particular emphasis on providers of instrumentation, life sciences tools, sensors and measurement devices, laboratory equipment and consumables. SFW’s principals have supported the growth and development of some of the most well-regarded companies in the sector, including Essen Bioscience, Filtec, Spectro Scientific, Metter Toledo and Waters Corporation. SFW is investing out of Fund II with approximately USD350 million of equity commitments and is actively seeking