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Legal & General has appointed Paul Miller, Group Strategy and M&A Director as Managing Director, Principal Investing in Legal & General Capital (LGC).
Miller will report to LGC’s CEO, Kerrigan Procter (pictured) and will join the Executive team and Investment Committee of L&G Capital.
LGC is a growth business within L&G and also delivers strong cross-group synergies, investing L&G’s own balance sheet and working closely with other L&G divisions to source and develop investment opportunities and assets for the broader Group and its clients. At 30 June 2018, LGC’s direct investment portfolio was GBP2.0 billion, with areas of focus including
UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has appointed Gareth Price as an investment director with responsibility for sourcing VCT opportunities, investments for Maven’s MBO fund, and its private equity co-investor partner network in the South West, as well as managing portfolio investments in the region.
Price brings close to 30 years’ investment and corporate finance experience to Maven, having spent his career advising both privately-owned SMEs and companies listed on AIM and the London Stock Exchange Main Market across a range of transactions including acquisitions and disposals, IPOs and debt and equity fundraisings. Gareth is a qualified chartered
Twin Brook Capital Partners, the middle-market direct lending subsidiary of Angelo Gordon, has appointed Tim Healy as a Managing Director, effective immediately. Healy will focus on originations along with developing and building client relationships.
“Tim’s background with middle-market leveraged transactions, and more recently as a partner at a private equity firm, brings a truly distinctive set of experience that we will look to leverage as we continue our strong growth,” says Trevor Clark, Managing Partner of Twin Brook. “We have known Tim personally and professionally for nearly two decades and welcome him to the Twin Brook team.”
Healy says: “Since its
Healthcare tech and media specialist Hemavli Bali has joined corporate finance firm Clearwater International’s TMT team as a Director in the London office.
Hemavli joins from Deloitte, where she led M&A advisory services for areas including e-clinical solutions, medtech, software and IP driven consultancies. With over a decade of corporate finance experience, she has previously held roles at Results International, Nomura, Royal Bank of Canada and Ernst & Young.
Clearwater’s TMT team has seen a 14 per cent increase in completed deals compared with 2017, closing three deals in a week during the last quarter, with a value of EUR160
Siris Capital Group (Siris), a private equity firm focussed on making control investments in data, telecommunications, technology and technology-enabled business service companies, has appointed Joe Cozzolino as an executive partner.
Cozzolino was most recently Senior Vice President and Worldwide General Manager at Cisco Services. In his new role at Siris, Cozzolino will work closely with the firm’s investment professionals and other executive partners to identify and validate potential investment opportunities for Siris as well as assist in the oversight and operations of Siris’ portfolio companies.
With more than 30 years of experience in the technology and telecommunications industry, Cozzolino
Ironwood Capital has appointed Maryam Jalal as an analyst. Jalal is responsible for reviewing new investment opportunities, conducting research and performing financial modelling and due diligence. In addition, Maryam provides support for business development activities and portfolio management.
Jalal has an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Finance from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan and a Master’s in Management from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Prior to joining Ironwood, Maryam worked as a financial analyst for Terakeet, a search engine optimisation firm. Previously she worked as a business intelligence analyst for Mobilink GSM, a multinational telecommunications company
Finitive, a financial technology platform providing institutional investors with direct access to alternative lending investments, has added seasoned fintech investor and executive Neil Wolfson to its board of directors.
Wolfson, who has significant public company board experience, spent the last decade as President and CIO of SF Capital Group. In this role he oversaw all debt and equity investing, asset allocation, and investment management for the billion-dollar multi-generational family office. At SF Capital he invested in over 30 direct debt and equity investments in emerging technology companies with a focus on fintech companies.
“Finitive has established an innovative platform
Crestbridge has appointed former Director General of the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC), John Harris, as non-executive Chairman of the Crestbridge Group, effective 1 January 2019.
This newly created role reflects the significant success and growth of the Group, which now employs over 280 staff across its offices in Bahrain, the Cayman Islands, Jersey, London and Luxembourg.
Bringing extensive private and public sector experience in international financial services institutions to the role, Harris (pictured), will join Crestbridge as one of a small number of professional and non-executive director commitments following his retirement from the JFSC earlier in the year.
Rimon Law has expanded its Private Fund and Securities Advisor team with the appointment of Geoffrey Perusse as a Partner in the firm’s San Francisco and Lake Tahoe offices.
Perusse’s practice focusses on private fund formation, investment activities, securities regulation and compliance matters. He regularly represents sponsors and managers of private funds across various asset classes, including real estate, private equity, debt, venture capital and hedge funds, with respect to the structuring, formation and operation of the funds, regulatory and compliance matters and investing activities.
Perusse joins Rimon from VLP Law Group, where he was a Partner. Perusse brings his
Fleetondemand, a fleet and mobility tech firm, has appointed Andrew Cope as Executive Chairman, following a recent deal with Business Growth Fund (BGF), which has acquired a minority stake in the firm, through a GBP5 million investment.
The appointment and investment sees two of the most successful entrepreneurs across the fleet and vehicle hire sectors come together at a time when Fleetondemand is experiencing significant growth in the UK and internationally, in particular the rollout of its Mobility-as-a-Service platform, Mobilleo.
Cope is one of the fleet industry’s most renowned entrepreneurs and who, as the driving force behind vehicle leasing
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