I Squared Capital has appointed Gautam Bhandari and Adil Rahmathulla as Managing Partners.  Sadek Wahba, Chairman & Managing Partner of I Squared Capital, says: “It is a great pleasure on a personal and professional basis to make this announcement. We have known each other for over 14 years and, together with our colleagues, have built I Squared Capital into a vibrant platform with over USD13 billion of assets under management. The next stage offers exciting growth opportunities and I look forward to working with Gautam and Adil over the coming years to execute on our long-term strategy.” I Squared Capital

LDC, a UK-based, mid-market private equity investor, has added two senior hires to it’s team in Manchester. The appointments of Dale Alderson and Aziz Ul-Haq as Directors creates a nine-strong team in Manchester and underpins firm’s pledge to invest GBP200 million in businesses across the North of the UK over the next 12 months. Alderson joins the team as a Director and makes the move from LDC in Yorkshire, where he held the position of Investment Director. He has worked at LDC since 2012 and has played an integral role on a number of LDC’s most successful investment partnerships. This

Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), has strengthened its Private Equity Performance Improvement practice with the appointment of Tania Howarth as Managing Director.  Howarth’s arrival follows that of Jason Spencer who also joins the practice as a Managing Director, bringing two decades of significant M&A experience. The latest appointments are indicative of the success of the firm’s European Private Equity Practice, which has seen the team size nearly triple over the past three years.   Howarth has over 30 years’ experience leading business transformation programmes across the FMCG and technology sectors. She spent ten years at Nomad Foods

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Sandra E Peterson, former Group Worldwide Chairman of Johnson & Johnson, as an Operating Partner, effective 29 April, 2019. Peterson joins CD&R after a long, successful career driving innovation and improved operational performance across large, global businesses. At Johnson & Johnson, Peterson led the Consumer and Medical Devices businesses and was responsible for the corporation’s global supply chain, as well as its technology strategy and infrastructure.  While at J&J, she clarified priority markets and segments and exercised strong portfolio discipline across the businesses she led and oversaw more than two dozen acquisitions and divestitures. 

Growth Capital Partners (GCP), a mid-market investor in UK SMEs, has promoted Jay Salter to Investment Manager. Salter joined GCP in 2017 and most recently worked on the investments in The DMW Group and Indigo Telecom Group.  Salter previously worked in the corporate finance team at Ernst & Young where he spent four years in the London office working in corporate restructuring and transactions support before three years in Sydney as part of the private equity transactions team, specialising in mid-market investments.   Salter says: “It’s a very exciting time to be at GCP, with our recent investments from Fund

TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has appointed Andrew Tay as a Senior Vice President in its Hong Kong office. “We are pleased to welcome Andrew to TA Associates,” says Edward F Sippel, a Managing Director at TA Associates and Co-head of Asia operations of TA Associates Asia Pacific Ltd. “As we continue to actively seek investments in profitable growth companies throughout the Asia-Pacific region, it is critical that we have talented and driven professionals on our team who have a keen understanding of the market. We believe that Andrew’s deep private equity investing experience will transition well