Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Micaela Bulich, former Vice President Global Supply Chain for GE Renewable Energy’s USD8 billion onshore wind business, as an Operating Advisor to CD&R funds. Bulich has more than 30 years’ experience as a strategy and execution leader of supply chain organisations in large, global, complex businesses. Most recently, Bulich served as VP Global Supply Chain for GE Renewable Energy’s Onshore Wind business, where her responsibilities included supply chain strategy, sourcing and global procurement, planning, manufacturing, logistics, and environmental health and safety. Other roles at GE included VP Sourcing for GE Energy, Senior Executive, Quality

Highvern Group has appointed private equity specialist, Mark Primrose, as an Associate Director and Head of Client Accounting. Primrose qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG before moving to an in-house role with Apax Partners and most recently in third party administration.   “We are thrilled to welcome Mark to the Highvern team. His extensive experience both within PE firms and fund administrators will be a great asset to our clients,” says Aidan O’Flanagan, Head of Funds. “Our innovative business model continues to attract clients and Mark’s appointment is testament to the value we place on high quality service delivered

Jorge Fernández Miret has been promoted to partner of Sherpa Capital, a Spanish private equity firm focused on investments in medium-sized companies that face new strategic challenges.   Fernández Miret joined Sherpa Capital in 2012 as an investment director, a role in which he led a large number of investments and divestments. He is a board member in several portfolio companies of Sherpa Capital, such as Dogi International Fabrics, Hedonai and Macrolibros.   Furthermore, he is a lecturer at the Institute of Stock Exchange Studies (IEB), where he teaches the M&A and Private Equity Programme. Before joining Sherpa Capital, Fernández

Private equity firm Silverfleet Capital has added to its investment team with the appointment of a Co-Head of Lower Mid-Market Investing and a Co-Head of the Benelux region based in Amsterdam. Alex Brebbia has joined Silverfleet as a partner based in London. Alongside David MacKenzie, he co-heads Silverfleet’s investment activities in the lower mid-market, targeting businesses with enterprise values between EUR25 million and EUR75 million.   Brebbia has a long and successful track record of investing in smaller buyouts and was latterly a Managing Partner at Spring Ventures, prior to which he was the Co-Head of Barclays Ventures. Alex started

Prestige has appointed Rassul Azizi as Credit Director covering its UK operations Prestige Asset Management, and international operations Prestige Capital Management and Prestige Fund Management. Azizi will also be working across Prestige’s two main finance businesses Privilege and Nucleus providing the important oversight required for a large and active portfolio of lending operations (which, between them, have provided almost GBP2 billion pounds of funding to UK small businesses since they were established).   Azizi joins Prestige from EFG Private Bank in the UK, where he was part of the bank’s credit approval team, structuring credit-based solutions and analysing credit requests.

King & Spalding has appointed Amy Peters as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group in its Chicago office.   Peters will focus on representing credit funds, banks, investors and borrowers in a variety of leveraged finance transactions, as well as recapitalisations, workouts and restructurings.   “Amy adds depth to our finance bench, and will enhance our relationships with credit funds and other lender clients, particularly those based in Chicago,” says Carolyn Alford, lead of the Financial Services practice. “Amy also brings tremendous depth of experience in representing private equity funds and corporate clients in complex

Waterland Private Equity is expanding its Swiss activities with the opening of a new office in Zurich.   The new Zurich team will work closely with the firm’s existing offices in Munich and Hamburg.   “Switzerland is a highly interesting market, and we are a very attractive growth partner for mid-sized companies in the region. This is demonstrated by our current engagement in Tineo – previously Quickline Business,” says Jörg Dreisow, Managing Partner at Waterland. “With our buy & build experience, financial strength, European office network and new proximity, we will be able to help Swiss companies expanding their potential,

Investec Specialist Bank (Investec) has appointed Joerg Bachtler to its Institutional Sales Group (ISG). Bachtler will oversee the syndication and distribution of leveraged buyout transactions originated by Investec’s Corporate & Acquisition Finance team.   The ISG team is responsible for the global syndication and distribution of transactions originated by Investec. Bachtler will play a key role in driving growth from Investec’s client base across both European and Indian markets.   Bachtler joins from UniCredit Bank AG London, where he spent five years as a Director in the global syndicate and private sales team. In this role, he focused on the

International law firm Brown Rudnick has expanded its International Corporate practice with the appointment of Philip Watkins as a Partner in the firm’s London Office.  Watkins, who joins Brown Rudnick with Victoria Rodley, Counsel, from Katten Muchin Rosenman UK, is a senior practitioner in corporate and commercial law, with particular emphasis on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, sophisticated private equity transactions, takeovers, strategic investments, joint ventures, restructurings, re-financings, buyouts and exit strategies.   Over his extensive career, Watkins has built a reputation as a trusted M&A counsel to corporations and private equity investors both in the United Kingdom and internationally across a wide range of industries. His experience