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Schroders has hired Peter Arnold, a senior private assets distribution head to drive the firm’s sales effort in this key asset class and better meet the specialist needs of investors globally.
Arnold will lead Schroders’ Alternative Sales Unit, which was established last year and focuses on the distribution of Schroders’ Private Assets investment offering.
He will report into John Troiano, Schroders’ Global Head of Distribution, and Georg Wunderlin, Schroders new Global Head of Private Assets, who joined the firm earlier this month.
Arnold was most recently the Global Head of International Fund Distribution at Citi, specialising in private debt, real
Dunedin has promoted three members of its investment team – Andrew Davidson to Investment Director, and Jessica Hardy and Katie Chung to Assistant Director.
Davidson, Hardy and Chung have been instrumental in driving transactions for Dunedin and creating value across its portfolio. They have each made notable contributions to Dunedin’s investments in paytech pioneer, Global Processing Services (GPS); digital technology specialist, Incremental; and forensic consultancy, Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA); as well as to its exit from Alpha Financial Markets, which successfully floated on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in October 2017. Andrew Davidson joined Dunedin in 2013, while
Apposite Capital, a healthcare-focused, private equity investor, has appointed James Harper as Finance Manager and promoted Alex Cunynghame to Investment Manager.
Harper joined Apposite Capital from the Coller Capital finance team, where he was responsible for fund accounting, investment monitoring, treasury management and foreign exchange risk management. Prior to that, he worked for the public sector audit team at KPMG. James has a masters degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University as well as being ACA qualified.
Alex Cunynghame joined the firm in 2017 from Deloitte Healthcare and Life Sciences Corporate Finance Advisory team. He is involved in all
FactSet, a provider of integrated financial information, analytical applications and services, has appointed Franck Gossieaux as Executive Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Client Solutions.
In this role, Gossieaux will be responsible for overseeing all global sales and client activities for FactSet.
Gossieaux joined FactSet in 2004 as part of its acquisition of JCF Group and has since held multiple senior leadership roles at the Company in both Europe and North America, including leading the EMEA and Americas sales teams. He has been instrumental in expanding FactSet across key markets and has global experience covering enterprise-level client relationships.
Venture capital firm Vala Capital has added technology entrepreneur and investor John Swingewood to its investment committee.
After directorships at BT and BSkyB during which he responsible for the companies’ early internet business strategies, John turned to start-ups. Over two decades he led domain name registry provider CentralNic to an AIM floatation as well as alarm signalling and monitoring firm Emizon and digital television software provider DITG to profitable sales.
Swingewood says: “Jasper, Arthur, Paddy and I have got a tremendous amount of experience between us and an excellent working relationship to boot. Vala have got some very exciting companies
Akin Gump has appointed Rizwan H Kanji as a partner in its Dubai office. He comes to Akin Gump from another large international law firm in Dubai, where he served as the lead of that firm’s global capital markets working group and as one of the deputy heads of its financial services industry focus group.
Kanji’s practice focuses on debt capital markets, finance and securitisations using both conventional and Islamic finance structures. Particularly active in the Middle East and Turkey for over a decade and, more recently, in Africa, he advises investment banks, financial institutions, multilateral development banks, sovereign states,
Artivest, an independent digital platform for alternative funds, has appointed Paul Nobile as Chief Marketing Officer, a new position for the company.
Nobile (pictured) has more than 25 years of experience as an award-winning marketing and communications leader for asset and wealth managers. He is based in New York City and reports directly to James Waldinger, Founder and CEO of Artivest.
At Artivest, Nobile takes responsibility for marketing and communications strategy and execution across a broad range of owned, earned and paid disciplines. As a senior leader, he will partner with teams across the business to position the firm’s value proposition and
Pan-European mid-market private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners (Stirling Square) has appointed Amélie Mazurier and Adriaan Bloys van Treslong to its investment team.
Mazurier was previously at JP Morgan, where she worked in the Investment Banking division focused on Mergers & Acquisitions within the Consumer & Retail team. She holds an MSc in Finance from ESADE Business School and an MSc in Management from HEC Lusanne. She is a French national from Switzerland and speaks fluent French and English.
Bloys van Treslong joined Stirling Square from Hannam Investments. Prior to that, he was in the Investment Banking division
Conyers has appointed Nicholas Pattman as a Partner in the Corporate practice in the Cayman Islands. Pattman advises on a broad range of corporate and finance matters with particular experience in venture capital, private equity and hedge funds.
“With a move to new offices, new branding for the firm and some recent key strategic hires, it is an exciting time to join Conyers in Cayman. I am looking forward to collaborating with colleagues and offices from across the network and playing a part in the continued growth and overall success of the firm,” says Pattman.
Kevin Butler, Partner &
A private equity team led by Mehdi Khodadad has joined Sidley Austin from Cooley. The team consists of Khodadad, partners Josh DuClos and Eric Kauffman, counsel Stacy Crosnicker and several associates. Khodadad, DuClos and Kauffmann are in Sidley’s Century City office, while Crosnicker is in Washington DC.
Khodadad and DuClos represent corporations and entrepreneurs along with their private equity and venture capital sponsors in matters related to private and public financings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, leveraged buy-outs, cross-border and other related private equity transactions. While their practice spans many industries, they are particularly active in technology and healthcare. Clearlake
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