Campbell Lutyens, a global private capital adviser, has strengthened its global secondaries advisory team in the US with the appointment of Fred Han as a Principal. The firm has the largest secondary advisory team globally and its US team has advised on over USD5 billion in transactions for leading North American LPs and GPs in the past 18 months.   Fred, who will be based in Campbell Lutyens’ New York office, has more than 13 years of experience in secondaries advisory in the US. He joins Campbell Lutyens from Park Hill Group, where he was most recently a Principal. Previously,

Avidbank Holdings has appointed veteran finance executive Sam Bhaumik as Executive Vice President, Venture Lending Group. “Part of our ultimate strategy for years has been venture and technology lending, but we needed to wait until we had the balance sheet, capital, infrastructure and governance before we could start the search for the right leader,” says Mark D Mordell, Chairman and CEO of Avidbank. “We are excited to have someone of Sam’s calibre and credibility, someone who shares our vision, to lead our newest division.”   “I am very excited to be joining the innovative Avidbank team to lead and build

Pantheon has promoted two of its investment team principals – Imogen Richards, Global Head of Investment Structuring and Strategy, London and Kevin Dunwoodie, Secondaries Investment Team, San Francisco – to Partner.  The firm has also named Pantheon Partner, Robin Bailey as Chief Operating Officer (COO).   An additional 42 promotions have been announced, including 18 promotions in the global investment team of which five are to Principal: Alec Brown, Global Secondaries, New York; Samayita Das, Global Infrastructure and Real Assets, San Francisco; Dinesh Ramasamy, Global Infrastructure and Real Assets, San Francisco; Cecile Ross, US Primaries, San Francisco; and Ana Maria

Apex Group (Apex) has appointed Emmanuel Tuffuor as Head of Private Equity Business Development for the Americas and Global Head of Tax, supporting the Group in developing its private equity offering in North America in addition to building out its tax service capabilities globally. Tuffuor joins Apex from KPMG where he was a Partner for an impressive 21 years. While at KPMG he drove significant growth as the Partner-In-Charge of the Alternative Investment Tax Practice, leading all phases of domestic and international partnership plus corporate tax consulting for hedge and private equity funds in addition to broker dealers, investment banks

Frankfurt-based private equity firm VR Equitypartner and BIP Investment Partners of Luxembourg have sold their jointly-held portfolio company LEUNA-Tenside to US firm Vantage Specialty Chemicals Holding Inc. Homburg & Partner (H&P) advised VR Equitypartner and BIP Investment Partners as part of the transaction process and conducted the Commercial Vendor Due Diligence.   VR Equitypartner is an equity capital financier in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with a focus on family-owned SMEs. BIP Investment Partners is part of the BIP Group and operates throughout Europe (particularly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Luxembourg) across a range of sectors.   LEUNA-Tenside is

Intertrust has made appointments to its senior team in Jersey with Tania Bearryman appointed as Executive Director, Trust & Company Services, and Shane Hugill promoted to Head of Performance & Reward Management. Bearryman (pictured), will have oversight of Intertrust’s Private Wealth, Treasury & Investments, Capital Markets, Corporate Services and Performance & Reward Management service lines.   As the previous Head of Performance & Reward Management, she takes on this expanded role to ensure that the service lines are aligned in realising Intertrust’s objectives and vision for its Jersey office.   Bearryman will further build on Intertrust’s client focus and ensure

International investment bank GCA Altium is opening a subsidiary in Paris under the leadership of Hugues Archambault. The launch of GCA Altium’s French operations is part of its global expansion strategy focussed on establishing a strong presence in all key markets in terms of corporate ecosystems and transaction dynamics. With numerous global leaders, fast-growing companies and a dense financial sponsor community, France is amongst these key markets. GCA Altium brings its global platform, deep sector expertise and top-level networks to help clients transact in and out of France.   Hugues Archambault will take charge of developing and managing GCA Altium’s

Aurelius Equity Opportunities SE & Co, a pan-European, mid-market special situations investor, has added Paymon Daneshpay to its team in London. Daneshpay joins Aurelius’ ‘Task Force’ as an Operations Manager with immediate effect.   Daneshpay’s appointment follows that of Peter Wood, Daven Chopra and Philip Stoner, who joined earlier in 2018 as Principal, an Operations Manager and Investment Associate respectively, and further bolsters Aurelius’ UK capabilities providing additional strength to its specialist team of operations experts.   Prior to joining Aurelius Paymon Daneshpay was a Consultant at KPMG, where he led operational improvement projects specialising in process, performance and decision

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Gregory Laï as a Partner of the firm. Since joining the Firm in 2007, Laï has been actively involved in sourcing and evaluating investments across Europe, as well as working with portfolio company management teams on post-acquisition value-building strategies. He has played a leadership role with several of the Firm’s investments, including B&M Retail (2013), BUT (2016), Exova (2008), HD Supply (2007), Motor Fuel Group (2015), and Rexel (2005). In recent years, he has contributed to building CD&R’s Consumer/Retail franchise, as well as broadening the Firm’s coverage in France.    Laï worked in the