Global investment bank GCA Altium has strengthened its presence in Asia with the launch of two new offices in Taipei and Ho Chi Minh City. Open from May 2018, the new offices will give UK clients access to Asia’s burgeoning M&A and investment markets. The firm has identified Taiwan and Vietnam as rapidly emerging trade hotspots due to their close proximity to China.   Vietnam has one of the fastest growing economies in Asia and saw its strongest year for M&A last year, with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growing at 6.81 per cent, its highest growth rate in a decade.

NewAlpha Asset Management, a Paris-based global emerging manager acceleration specialist and Private Equity firm, has appointed Adrien Auric as Chief Operating Officer.
  In addition to operational due diligence, Adrien Auric is now also responsible for coordinating the Legal, Internal Control & Compliance, Operations and Information Systems functions with NewAlpha’s service providers.   The company intends to adapt its organisation and strengthen its operational efficiency to cope with the growth and diversification of its investment and advisory activities.   Prior to joining NewAlpha in June 2017, Adrien Auric was in charge of Investment Due Diligence at Reinhold & Partners, a

Jared Jensen has joined Sidley Austin as a partner in the firm’s global Private Equity practice. Jensen, who will be based in the San Francisco office, was formerly a partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. Jensen has extensive experience advising private equity and venture capital firms, their sponsored companies, and other clients on public and private M&A, tender and exchange offers, recapitalisations, management buyouts, going-private transactions, carve-out transactions and minority growth investments. He represents clients in a wide array of industries, including software, information technology, financial services, life sciences, consumer products, education and business services. Jensen also provides guidance on public

Law firm Morrison & Foerster has appointed Anthony (Tony) Carbone as a partner in its New York office. Carbone will co-chair the firm’s Global Tax Department with Craig Fields and David Strong, and will also co-chair the Federal Tax Group with Strong. Carbone further expands Morrison & Foerster’s tax capabilities both on the East Coast and across the firm, and brings market-leading expertise to its Business Restructuring & Insolvency, M&A, Private Equity, and Fund Formation practices. He comes to Morrison & Foerster from the New York office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

   Carbone’s practice focuses on tax planning strategies and

King & Spalding has added Ryan D McNaughton to the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group as counsel in the New York office. McNaughton focuses on structured finance and specialty leveraged finance matters and will broaden the firm’s esoteric securitisation practice into several new asset classes.   “Ryan’s addition adds to the continued momentum of our CFI practice in New York,” says Todd Holleman, the group’s leader.   McNaughton advises underwriters, issuers, lenders, borrowers, private equity firms and other financial institutions in a variety of structured and asset-backed financings, including public and private secured and unsecured note offerings

Monarch Private Capital (MPC), an investor in tax credit projects, has appointed William Huger III as Managing Director of Monarch Private Capital Advisors. In this new role, Huger will assist in the development of strategic investment initiatives for corporate investors who can benefit from tax equity programs that positively impact communities.   Huger has over 30 years of experience building and managing asset management firms that structure, manage and market alternative investment strategies suitable for institutions, family offices and private clients globally. He has an extensive background in establishing the business and investment practices needed to successfully offer marketable and

Law firm Dentons has appointed Nieves Briz as Barcelona Managing Partner and a new partner in the Corporate and M&A department. She joins with a team of two lawyers from JAUSAS, senior associate Natalia Ontiveros and junior associate Wenbo Zhou.   With more than 30 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and commercial law, Ms. Briz joins from JAUSAS where she was a partner in the commercial law and compliance departments and was responsible for the China Desk for five years. Previously, she was a partner at EY Abogados, where in 2000, she became the first woman and the

Inflexion Private Equity has appointed Irina Hemmers as a Partner. She will lead the TMT team, building on Inflexion’s long history of successful investments in the sector including On the Beach, FDM and Reward Gateway. Hemmers started her career at McKinsey & Company before joining Apax Partners as a Partner in the media team where she spent 13 years responsible for digital investments globally. More recently, Irina was a Partner and Head of Principal Investing at Eight Roads, the proprietary investing arm of Fidelity International.   Inflexion has also promoted Malcolm Coffin and Josh Kaufman to Partner with immediate effect.