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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
Katey Bogue has joined eVestment, a global leader in institutional investor data and analytics, as Head of Private Markets. She will be responsible for leading the growth and development of eVestment’s private markets solutions.
This will include expanding eVestment’s private markets database and growing the company’s market intelligence, analytics and due diligence solutions for private markets general and limited partners.
Bogue (pictured), joins eVestment from Nasdaq, eVestment’s parent company, where she served as Head of Alternatives for Nasdaq Private Market. Her appointment illustrates the opportunities to share expertise and personnel between Nasdaq and eVestment that made eVestment an attractive
Michael Doppelt has rejoined middle-market private equity firm Irving Place Capital (IPC) as a Partner and Head of Fundraising and LP Relations.
Doppelt’s new role at IPC will focus on maintaining strong connections with current Limited Partners while expanding the firm’s relationships to include new institutional investors.
Doppelt previously worked for IPC from 2005 to 2010 as a Senior Managing Director, responsible for LP Relations and Business Development. Prior to recently rejoining IPC, he spent eight years as a Managing Director and Partner at Lightyear Capital, leading fundraising and Investor Relations, during which time the firm completed two target-exceeding
Mercury Capital Advisors, a global placement agent specializing in alternative investments, has appointed industry veteran, Reymundo Calcano, as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.
In his new role, Calcano (pictured), will report to Chief Executive Officer, Michael Ricciardi, and will lead the Mercury Capital Advisors’ finance team.
Calcano brings over 15 years of financial leadership and management experience to the Company. Prior to joining, Calcano served as Head of Finance and a member of the Executive Committee for Brevan Howard US. During his tenure at the firm, he worked as Finance and Operations Principal for Brevan Howard’s FINRA member broker-dealer
Intertrust in Jersey has appointed an experienced director in its Performance & Reward Management team.
Melissa McConnell joins Intertrust as a client director, heading up the Deferred Compensation team. She will manage a range of client portfolios, providing trustee and administration services to those clients that are required to defer their bonuses for regulatory or company specific reasons.
The team’s clients include asset managers, private equity companies, hedge funds, private companies and large listed companies. In addition to this, McConnell will develop the team’s service offering further and undertake business development.
McConnell has 16 years’ experience in offshore trust administration
Private markets asset management firm Hamilton Lane has made a number of firm-wide promotions, naming seven professionals to the title of Principal.
“We congratulate this group of individuals and recognise their contributions to the organisation. With promotions across the firm’s investment, product and strategic technology platforms, as well as our client service functions, we have enhanced our senior team to better serve our new and existing clients around the world,” says Mario Giannini (pictured), CEO of Hamilton Lane. “The last year has been one full of milestones for Hamilton Lane, and the continued development of our deep bench of talent
Canyon Bridge portfolio company Imagination Technologies (Imagination), a supplier of semiconductor intellectual property (IP), has confirmed that Dr Leo Li is to become the company’s Chief Executive Officer.
Li is Chairman of the Global Semiconductor Alliance and a well-known and respected figure in the semiconductor industry. He has over 30 years of semiconductor experience most recently as chairman, CEO and president of Spreadtrum Communications and chairman of RDA before becoming Co-President at Tsinghua Unigroup. During his nine-year tenure at Spreadtrum, Leo drove a focus on continuous innovation, quality control, and customer relationship management—helping grow revenue from USD100 million to USD2
Venture capital company Aster has appointed Jérome Joaug as a Principal.
Joaug, co-founder of Nymbly and Cambridge Nanosystems, and a digital transformation specialist, has joined the management company’s investment team, where he will be involved in selecting and supporting the most promising startups in the areas of mobility, energy and industry.
A graduate of the École Polytechnique and the University of Cambridge in 2012, Jérome Joaug co-founded Cambridge Nanosystems, a leader in the environmentally-friendly production of high-quality graphene which was sold in 2016. After this first foray into entrepreneurship at age 24, he was a business angel for several
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