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Estera, a provider of funds, corporate and trust services, has appointed Ethan Levner as Managing Director in Guernsey in addition to his responsibilities as Group Head of Corporate Development, encompassing M&A and group strategy.
Levner (pictured), joined Estera in 2016 to lead the company’s growth strategy through mergers and acquisitions and has been central to devising and executing that strategy through a series of selective acquisitions, which have transformed Estera’s capabilities and scale. Levner has nearly 20 years’ experience in private equity and investment banking, giving him a deep understanding of issues relevant for Estera’s clients.
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NorthEdge Capital has appointed Lloyd Williams as Portfolio Director and Maninder Minhas as Investment Manager, bolstering the private equity house’s Yorkshire base.
Williams has over 25 years’ experience covering private equity, investment banking, corporate advisory and restructuring. He was formerly the Head of Private Equity for Kuwait Finance House (Bahrain), where he was responsible for the management and exit of a USD300 million portfolio of international investments. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles with KPMG, Deutsche Bank (Singapore) and Zeus Capital.
Minhas joins the Northern-focussed private equity house from Deloitte, where he was an Associate Director having spent
Quadrille Capital, an independent French investment company, based in Paris and San Francisco, has made six new hires in its investment team.
In line with Quadrille Capital’s investment strategy in technology, all the new joiners have a financial background. The new appointments bring Quadrille’s team to 15, including 11 investors connected to the deployment of Quadrille Technologies fund IV, which held a first closing above EUR200 million in October 2018.
Edouard Brunet – Vice-President – was the Executive Director within the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, since 2016 where he advised corporate clients and private equity funds. Previously,
Intertrust has appointed Amit Taylor as head of corporate services in Guernsey and part of the new senior management team in the island.
Taylor (pictured), has over 20 years’ experience as a finance industry professional in the UK and in Guernsey. He moved to the island in 2010 to become managing director of HSBC’s fund administration and custody business. He then became group managing director of Trust Corporation before moving to Estera to become the Guernsey managing director.
He has expertise in the development and implementation of strategic plans, sales and business development, business management and in corporate, fiduciary
James Kinsley, a finance partner in the Maples Group’s legal services team, has relocated to the Singapore office, further strengthening the firm’s service offering in Asia.
Previously based in the Maples Group’s Dubai office for the past five years, Kinsley has experience in international capital markets and finance transactions across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In particular he advises on structured finance, aircraft finance, fund finance, Islamic finance, general banking and corporate transactions, including private equity co-investment platforms. Kinsley also advises leading financial institutions on complex netting and collateral structures for both conventional and Islamic derivatives. Before joining the
Financial services consulting firm Oyster Consulting (Bermuda) Ltd has appointed Ann Daniels to provide consulting services with an emphasis on AML/CFT and Risk Compliance.
Daniels (pictured) brings more than 15 years of experience in Regulatory Risk and Compliance in the financial services industry. Ann’s compliance and consulting roles with small firms, law firms, investment businesses honed her skills, including the development, implementation and oversight of Compliance programs. Daniels’ experience also includes the development and implementation of AML/CFT risk assessment policies, procedures, and training; automated monitoring systems; risk assessment methodologies; the implementation of standards and a program of oversight compliance professionals.
Lazard has appointed Suresh Vasan as a Managing Director in the firm’s Private Capital Advisory’s Private Capital Solutions Group, effective immediately. He is based in Houston.
“Suresh brings over two decades of experience in global principal investing in the energy industry,” says Holcombe Green, Managing Director and Global Head of Secondary Advisory, Lazard. “He will be a valuable addition to our team as the secondary and direct private placement market continues to grow in size and scope.”
Previously, Vasan served more than 11 years with GE Energy Financial Services, where he was most recently a Managing Director leading midstream
Kainos Capital, a food and consumer-focussed private equity firm, has appointed Rob Ruegger as a Managing Director. Ruegger most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of Gehl Foods, where he was responsible for all aspects of manufacturing and supply chain.
Ruegger brings to the Kainos team over 30 years of extensive experience in financial and general management in the food and consumer goods industries.
Andrew Rosen, Managing Partner of Kainos, says: “We are excited to have Rob join our organisation as a valuable member of the Kainos Operations Team, which works closely in partnership with our portfolio company management
Kingswood Holdings (Kingswood), a listed UK-based wealth and investment manager, has appointed Richard Klein as Head of Alternatives and Distribution.
Klein’s principal focus will be on providing existing and future clients with access to capital protected, yield-enhanced strategies managed by independent best in class asset managers with offerings in key asset classes including Private Equity, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Hedge Funds, Liquids & Credit.
These products are generally only available to institutional investors, but Kingswood is committed to providing investment opportunities to the mass affluent market. Richard joins on 1 March 2019 as a Partner and Managing Director, and will
Duff & Phelps has appointed Ben Collett as a Managing Director in its Restructuring Advisory practice.
Working across the firm’s Birmingham, Manchester and London offices, Collett will focus on providing advisory services to corporate clients across the UK and Europe. He joins the firm from IMI Precision Engineering, where he was the Global Director of Strategic Projects.
Prior to that, he spent 27 years with KMPG in the firm’s advisory practice. Collett specialises in assessing and driving strategic change programs involving restructuring, turnaround, profit improvement and mergers and acquisitions for clients in both underperformance and growth situations.
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