Schulte Roth & Zabel International (SRZ) has appointed Emily Brown as a partner in the Investment Management Group, resident in the firm’s London office. Brown joins the firm from Macfarlanes. Brown advises private equity and venture capital sponsors on fundraising, managed accounts and the capital-raising process, as well as on executive and employee co-investment arrangements, and the wider elements of operating a private funds business. With broad expertise across fund jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, Luxembourg and the Channel Islands, she advises both sponsors and major institutional investors on a wide range of matters in the investment fund sphere, including

DWS Group has appointed Kumber Husain as Head of Private Equity, Americas. Based in New York, Husain will report to Mark McDonald, Global Head of Private Equity, who joined DWS in November 2017. In this newly created role, Husain will focus on the sourcing and execution of direct co-investment and secondary private equity transactions, delivering innovative opportunities and bespoke solutions to complement clients’ investment strategies. Husain will collaborate closely with McDonald and the rest of the global private equity team, including Daniel Green, who joined in January as head of EMEA, to continue growing the private equity business and capitalising

Framework, a specialist global solutions vendor for Private Equity (PE) and Real Estate (RE) investments, has made a senior hire to its leadership team with the appointment of Renato Moreschi as Head of Market Solutions. Framework says the appointment will strengthen the company’s focus on innovation and delivering the best service to Framework’s customers.   Moreschi has a 30-year track record of investment servicing experience working within leading financial institutions. In his last role, he was a Member of the Executive Committee of RBC Investment Services Bank and the Managing Director in charge of Client Operations and Client Management for

Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and Global Private Equity Industry Group with the addition of Saam Golshani, Alexis Hojabr and Guillaume Vitrich as partners in Paris. “Saam is one of the most recognised partners in the Paris market and his arrival, alongside Alexis and Guillaume, sends a strong signal that White & Case is committed to continuing to build a leading financial sponsor team in France,” says White & Case partner John Reiss, Head of the Firm’s Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. “As we continue to expand our role advising

New World Capital Advisors (NWCA), a specialist merchant banking and investment firm, has appointed two new Partners – Alexander Tsirigotis joins as Chief Operating Officer and Simon Evans as General Counsel. NWCA focuses on market dislocations, special situations and bespoke investments across developed and emerging markets. The pair will enhance NWCA’s capabilities as it continues to develop its traditional approach to merchant banking.   Tsirigotis joins from BlackRock, where he held positions in its Financial Markets Advisory and Corporate Strategy divisions. His previous experience includes roles at Merrill Lynch, Mediobanca and Nomura.   Evans qualified as a barrister and then

Raw Selection – an executive search firm specialising in working with Private Equity, Venture Capital and their portfolio companies – has appointed Dominic Clawson as head of the firm’s healthcare sector team. “Dominic is a fantastic addition to the business, he has extensive knowledge and experience across the healthcare industry and in the few weeks he has been here, he has already secured a number of vacancies with new and existing clients. Dominic is full of energy and drive and this fits in with the business very well,” says Alex Rawlings, Managing Partner of Raw Selection.   Clawson has a

San Francisco Equity Partners (SFEP), a private equity firm exclusively focussed on expansion-stage companies in the consumer industry, has appointed Mary Kayser as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Compliance Officer (CCO). Kayser brings more than 20 years of finance, accounting, tax and operations experience to SFEP. She most recently served as CFO and Chief of Compliance at VMG Partners, a consumer-focussed private equity firm with more than USD2 billion in assets under management.    Kayser is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

Sidley Austin has appointed Kenneth J Baronsky as a partner in the firm’s Corporate group in Century City. Baronsky has vast experience advising companies, private equity sponsors, executives, owners and board members. He joins from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, where he developed a transactional practice and served as managing partner of its Los Angeles office and as its corporate practice group leader for more than a decade.   Baronsky, regarded as one of the elite corporate lawyers in Greater Los Angeles and in the US, advises on mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, equity and debt investments, restructurings and other