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Renaissance Capital has appointed Nancy Adel Fahmy as Vice President, Financial Services Research, in Cairo, Egypt.
The bank has also made structural changes and promotions within its Research department – Metin Esendal will oversee healthcare coverage from London, while Artem Yamschikov will take over transport and infrastructure coverage from Moscow.
Fahmy joins Renaissance Capital’s EEMEA research team and will be covering financial services across Egypt, North Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Countries. She will report to Ahmed Hafez, Head of Research, MENA, and Amr Helal, North Africa CEO.
Nancy has over 12 years of experience in sell-side equity
Global investor services provider SGG Group has appointed Serge Krancenblum to the new position of Group Executive Chairman and chair of the Group’s Supervisory Board and Mark Pesco as its new Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Both appointments are subject to regulatory approval.
Under Krancenblum’s leadership SGG Group has become the fourth largest independent investor services firm in the world, with the required scale and industry expertise across all segments.
As Group Executive Chairman, Krancenblum will chair the Supervisory Board of the Group and act as an adviser and a trusted mentor to Pesco, sharing experience, know-how and network.
International law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has appointed Simon Beddow as the firm’s new Corporate Deputy Departmental Managing Partner. Beddow will be based in BCLP’s London office.
A highly experienced and respected M&A and corporate finance lawyer, with extensive management experience and a long track record of winning business, Beddow is recognised as a leading individual for M&A by the Legal 500 USD250 million and above.
Beddow joins the firm from Ashurst where he was Managing Partner of their London office. During his more than 20 years as a partner at Ashurst, he also held a number of
Cayman-based alternative fund governance specialists, Danesmead Partners, has appointed former FRM Head of Operational Due Diligence Haliday Casey to join the London office as a principal of the firm.
Haliday (pictured), will provide independent directorship services as well as bespoke consulting services to asset management businesses, family offices, institutional investors, fund administrators, and other connected service providers.
With over 11 years’ experience at Man FRM, including four years as Head of Operational Risk, chair of FRM’s Independent Valuation Committee, a member of the Investment Committee and Co-Chair of the Risk Committee, Haliday assessed and monitored the business, legal, financial
UK Private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has promoted Colin Anderson and Andrew Whiteley from Maven’s specialist property investment team to partnership positions.
The strengthening of its partnership base reflects Maven’s continued commitment to expanding Maven’s property investment offering.
Anderson joined Maven in 2014 to further grow Maven’s property investment business, having previously spent 11 years in the corporate banking and real estate finance roles at The Royal Bank of Scotland. Since joining Maven as an investment director, Anderson has been responsible for growing the number of property assets from five to 23 and has led investments in
Mintz has added to its market-leading corporate practice with the appointment of attorney Loretta Shaw-Lorello, who joins the firm as a Member.
Shaw-Lorello was most recently vice-chair of the Private Funds practice at Covington & Burling, as well as a partner in the Private Equity practice.
Shaw-Lorello has a multifaceted private equity and investment funds practice that encompasses advising private equity fund sponsors on a broad range of issues with respect to fund formation, operation and regulatory compliance. She has extensive experience in representing clients in the formation and operation of buyout funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds,
HIG Capital has appointed Markus Noe-Nordberg as a Managing Director and Head of Middle Market Private Equity in Europe.
Based in London, Markus will lead HIG’s middle market private equity activities in Europe. He has 30 years of experience in finance and leveraged buyouts. Prior to joining HIG Capital, he was a partner and founding member of Pamplona Capital. Before that, he was a Managing Director and co-head of the financial sponsors group at Goldman Sachs in London.
Sami Mnaymneh and Tony Tamer, HIG co-founders and CEOs, say: “We are delighted to welcome Markus to HIG His background and
Private equity firm Nimbus has strengthened its senior team in the UK with the appointment of David Keenan as investment director.
Keenan joins Nimbus from PwC corporate finance division where he advised as a Director on a number of significant mid-market private equity transactions across a range of sectors throughout the North and Midlands, during his four-year tenure. Prior to this, he began his career in RBS’s Northern Team specialising in various corporate banking roles.
Nimbus has appointed Keenan in a senior investment role to use his wide-ranging experience to support growth across the North and Midlands. He will
King & Spalding has appointed Alan Noskow as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group in the Washington DC office.
Noskow’s practice focuses on private equity, leveraged buyouts, debt and equity financings, M&A and other complex business transactions, both domestic and international. He represents companies in all stages of development and across various industries including energy, manufacturing, real estate, health care, retail and technology. Noskow also has significant experience working with businesses in structuring and negotiating early and growth-stage equity and debt investments.
“Alan’s practice squarely advances our priority to grow the firm’s private equity
Northern Trust has named Kimberly Evans as head of Private Capital Fund Administration in North America, leading a growing practice dedicated to providing middle- and back-office solutions for a range of alternative asset class investment managers, including real estate, private debt, infrastructure and both traditional and hybrid private equity funds in the region.
Evans, with 25 years of financial services experience, will focus Northern Trust’s global capabilities on a segment of the alternatives market experiencing rapid asset growth and increased demands for transparency. Northern Trust offers an integrated solution including trade management, reconciliation, risk and analytics, fund accounting, global custody
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