Dedicated African merchant banking house, Africa Merchant Capital, has appointed Milko Skoro as Managing Director for AMC Advisory and AMC Infrastructure. Skoro brings with him 20 years of African transaction experience and knowledge of the Sub-Saharan Africa private capital markets. In the Africa Merchant Capital Group, Skoro will head up AMC Advisory, offering a range of Corporate Finance services centred around growth and acquisition capital, and AMC Infrastructure which focuses on developing and owning long-term assets.   Skoro is a seasoned investment professional with buy-side and sells-side experience, from managing Africa focused Private Equity funds to advising private equity companies

Cavendish Corporate Finance, a specialist sell-side M&A firm, has appointed Derek Zissman, a senior corporate finance professional, as a partner and Head of the Cavendish Exit Review practice. Zissman brings over 40 years’ experience of M&A advisory to Cavendish and his appointment further strengthens the firm’s sell-side advisory service. It will enable Cavendish to better advise its clients across all aspects of their business’ exit process and take advantage of emerging opportunities in today’s very active M&A markets.    Zissman, a former Vice Chairman of KPMG, was a founding partner of KPMG’s UK Corporate Finance Group and Private Equity groups

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has appointed Matt Alis as Regional Sales Director as the firm looks to build on its performance in the South East and London. The asset-based lender announced last month that it had lent GBP34 million to SMEs in the South of England in 2017, with total lending balances more than doubling nationwide.   Alis joins from Bibby Financial Services, where he spent more than three years. In his role at Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance, he will be focussing on further developing the STB brand across a wide range of intermediaries, and will be responsible

Turnspire Capital Partners has appointed Simon Jones as an Operating Partner. He will lead and expand the new Turnspire Executive Operator Network.  Jones is an experienced leader and operations professional with an engineering background and wide international experience as a Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director.  Simon is currently Executive Chairman of One Discovery, Inc, and was previously Chairman and CEO of 3SI Security Systems. He delivers actionable strategic advice at the highest level of corporations and is experienced in private investments.    Jones and the rest of the Turnspire team will work to grow our community of executives possessing strong leadership

Law firm Akerman has added experienced corporate partner Ted Rosen to its M&A and Private Equity Practice in New York. Involved in complex transactions for more than three decades, Rosen joins the Corporate Practice Group from Fox Rothschild, where he served as administrative partner for the New York Corporate and Public Companies Practices and as co-chair of the Private Equity Practice Group. Rosen advances Akerman’s longstanding capabilities dedicated to mergers and acquisitions, private equity funds, international transactions and venture capital transactions.   “Ted is highly regarded for his consummate ability to meet client objectives in complex transactions and he adds

BakerHostetler has appointed Christopher Carolan as a partner to the firm’s debt finance, private equity and venture capital practices. Carolan, based in New York, comes to the firm from Seyfarth Shaw. An experienced practitioner who was previously an assistant general counsel at BNP Paribas in New York, Carolan regularly works with clients on a wide variety of financing transactions. On the lending side, he represents financial institutions, funds and alternative lenders as arrangers, agents and lenders. He also represents borrowers, including publicly traded companies, REITs, private companies and portfolio companies of sponsors.   Carolan’s deals have spanned a variety of

Golding Capital Partners, an independent asset manager for alternative investments, has strengthened its investment team with the appointment of Abhik Das as the company’s new Head of Private Debt. As Managing Director, he is responsible for GCP’s overall private debt investment activities. His role comprises the selection of primaries, secondaries and co-investment opportunities for GCP’s institutional investment programmes and managed accounts. In this function, he reports to Dr Matthias Reicherter, GCP’s Chief Investment Officer.   By hiring Das, GCP has significantly strengthened its investment competence and transaction expertise in the private debt asset class. Abhik Das can draw on more

Renaissance Capital, an emerging and frontier markets investment bank, has appointed Ivan Kachkovski as an Equity Research Analyst covering the banking sector and finance institutions in Russia, as well as in frontier and emerging markets across the CIS and emerging Europe. Kachkovski will be based in London and report to Daniel Salter, Head of Research, Eurasia, at Renaissance Capital.   Daniel Salter, Head of Research, Eurasia, says: “We are pleased to welcome Ivan to the team. He is an experienced and professional analyst, well recognised by corporates and clients alike for the strength of his analysis. We believe Ivan’s longstanding expertise