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Salveo Capital, an alternative investment firm specialising in the legalised cannabis space, has appointed Thomas Mazarakis as a Managing Partner.
Mazarakis will work alongside Managing Partners Michael Gruber and Jeffrey Howard in overseeing strategic direction and will be responsible for portfolio management as well as scaling the firm and its operations.
Mazarakis has over 18 years of financial and investment experience. Most recently he served as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in London where he was head of the Fundamental Strategies Group, a department of research analysts within the securities division’s multi-billion dollar equity and credit businesses. Earlier
Gibraltar Business Capital has added two veteran speciality finance lenders to its sales team – Elijah Kaplan and Scott Simmons.
Located in New York, Kaplan is an experienced professional in middle market lending, private equity, and restructuring. He has over 16 years of experience in financing, acquiring, and advising middle-market businesses through leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalisations, and restructurings. He honed his collaborative approach to working with management teams and private equity sponsors while at Deloitte CRG, Hudson Capital Partners, Marathon Asset Management and Albion Investors.
Based in Dallas, Simmons joins Gibraltar with 25 years of experience in building relationships
Cotton Creek Capital, a Texas-based lower middle market private equity firm, has added Blake Tilley to its investment team as an Associate.
Prior to joining Cotton Creek Capital, Tilley was a Financial Analyst in the Global Industrials Group at Robert W Baird & Co, a wealth management, capital market, private equity and asset management firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During his tenure with Robert W Baird & Co, Tilley focused on mergers and acquisition transactions along with equity offerings across the industrial sector.
Tilley earned his Bachelors of Business Administration in Finance and Accounting from Texas Christian University’s Neeley
Aksia, a specialist research and portfolio advisory firm for hedge fund, private credit, and institutional investors, has appointed Ilya Riskin as a Senior Analyst in the firm’s Investment Research Team in New York.
Riskin (pictured), had been at Barclays for over 12 years, most recently as a Vice President in the Portfolio Management Group, where he was a fundamental credit research generalist and portfolio manager of an extensive bank debt book.
At Aksia, Ilya’s investment and markets experience will serve as a complement to the event driven and credit investment due diligence effort. Patrick Adelsbach, Head of Credit Strategies,
Offshore law firm Carey Olsen Bermuda has appointed Mary Ward as a partner in its corporate practice. Ward will join Carey Olsen Bermuda after 15 years at Conyers Dill & Pearman.
Prior to her arrival in Bermuda, Ward worked for international law firms Linklaters in New York and Slaughter and May in London. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1994 and the Bermuda Bar in 2004.
Ward advises on all aspects of commercial and corporate law, with extensive experience in securities law, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring of private and public companies and private equity.
C5, an investment specialist firm investing into cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and cloud, has announced that it will continue to strengthen its management team with the appointment of Christopher Cooke as Managing Partner and Head of Investor Relations.
At C5 Capital, Mr Cooke will be taking responsibility for all aspects of Fundraising and Investor Relations, working closely with the Head of Fund Operations and the C5 Investment Team. He will be joining the board of C5 Capital.
Prior to this role, Chris was a Managing Director at Hycroft, HSBC and Greenhill & Company, where he established the London desk for private
UBS Asset Management’s (UBS-AM) Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) business has appointed Perry Offutt as Head of Infrastructure Americas, effective June.
Offutt will join REPM’s USD4 billion Infrastructure platform to lead the US team and further develop its growing presence in the region.
Offutt has more than 20 years of investment and industry experience and has worked on over USD100 billion of transactions. Perry joins UBS-AM from Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets, where he was a Managing Director of the North American Investment team, responsible for originating and executing investment opportunities. Prior to this, he spent 15 years
Fidante Capital, the international capital markets business of Fidante Partners, has appointed John Armstrong-Denby as Head of Corporate Finance in its London office.
Armstrong-Denby has over 18 years’ experience advising and investing in listed investment funds. Most recently, Armstrong-Denby was a Managing Director in the corporate finance division of Edmond de Rothschild, where he actively advised a range of clients on strategies to grow AUM in listed and unlisted fund offerings, while also providing proactive strategic advice to fund boards. Armstrong-Denby has previously held similar senior positions with ING Bank, Intelli Corporate Finance and ABN AMRO Hoare Govett. Armstrong-Denby started
Honigman has appointed Norbert Knapke as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. He will serve as a member of the Corporate department and Private Equity practice group.
Knapke’s practice focuses on counselling private equity firms and operating companies on various transactional matters, such as acquisitions, recapitalisations, divestitures, financings and governance. He joins Honigman’s Chicago office from Kirkland & Ellis, where he worked on matters ranging from private and public target acquisitions, growth equity investments, initial public offerings, structuring executive compensation plans and debt financings.
“Norbert is an outstanding legal mind and a terrific example of the top tier
Advent Capital Management has appointed Alex von Ziegesar as managing director of business development, reporting to Kris Haber, the firm’s Chief Operating Officer.
Von Ziegesar will be responsible for marketing a variety of traditional and alternative strategies in the US institutional channel.
“We’re extremely excited to welcome Alex to the Advent family, where we continue to see a need and demand from institutional investors for innovative traditional and alternative strategies given rising volatility and climbing interest rates,” says Haber. “Given his experience working across various asset classes, as well as his ability to form lasting business relationships, Alex will
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