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Hilco Valuation Services has appointed Tom Boniface as Vice President of Business Development for the Midwest Region of the United States, supporting the Valuation, Monetisation and Advisory platforms.
Boniface will be based in Chicago and will have the specific responsibilities of both maintaining our existing relationships and creating new relationships with financial institutions, investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, and other professional service firms.
Boniface has been with Hilco since 2015, most recently serving in a Director role, primarily supporting renewal valuations for existing appraisal customers. In this role, he worked closely with many of Hilco Valuation Services’
Global law firm Reed Smith has appointed Michael N Peterson as a partner in the firm’s Global Corporate Group in Philadelphia.
Formerly head of Morgan Lewis’ Philadelphia Corporate Business & Transactions practice, Peterson has a thriving private equity practice and more than 20 years of experience representing public and private companies over a broad range of industries in a variety of complex transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, joint ventures and financing transactions.
“Mike has a stellar reputation in the Philadelphia business and legal communities,” says Matthew Petersen, co-chair of Reed Smith’s global corporate practice. “His busy
Orrick has appointed Paul Doris as a partner in London. Doris brings a strong focus on M&A and private equity, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
He is the 10th partner addition to Orrick’s European M&A and Private Equity team and the seventh partner to join the firm’s London office since 2016.
“Orrick is one of the most active firms in the global energy and infrastructure sector, and Paul adds deep experience in this rapidly transforming market. We’ve worked across the table from him for years, and we’re delighted to add him to our team,” says Anthony Riley,
Alternative investment firm Context Capital Partners has appointed Arun Gowda as a Managing Director and Head of Business Development.
In the new role, Gowda will focus on developing and managing new institutional and family office relationships, and drive Context Capital Partners’ business development process.
“Arun is a strong addition to the Context team, bringing an established track record of raising assets and developing long-term relationships with institutions for a wide range of alternative investment strategies,” says Ron Biscardi, CEO of Context Capital Partners. “We welcome him to our team and look forward to leveraging his skills and relationships to
Capnamic Ventures, an early-stage tech venture capitalist firm based in Berlin and Cologne, has expanded its investment team with the appointment of Christian Knott as a Partner.
Also joining the team are Sebastian Schüller, as an Investment Manager, and Frederik von Bossel, as an Analyst.
Knott joined Capnamic Ventures in 2014 as an Analyst. Previously, he was responsible for over 80 portfolio companies at HTGF (High-Tech Gründerfonds) in Bonn as an Investment Controller. Christian studied International Business Administration at the Cologne Business School. Later he successfully completed his Master’s degree with a focus on entrepreneurship at HHL Leipzig.
Leeds headquartered private equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP) has appointed Matt Tice as an investment manager.
An experienced corporate finance adviser with a strong track record of advising businesses in the mid-market, Matt joins from Deloitte in Leeds where he worked as a manager in the corporate finance team. Previously, he spent two years with BHP Corporate Finance in the role of corporate finance manager, having also been with Mazars for six years, latterly as a corporate finance executive.
Working alongside KCP partners Owen Trotter and James Hall in the firm’s Leeds office, Matt’s appointment will further strengthen
Pomona Capital, a global private equity firm, has promoted Chief Financial Officer, John Stephens, to Partner and CFO.
“John has demonstrated the experience, energy, integrity and humanity so crucial to Pomona Capital and its investors”, says Michael D Granoff, chief executive officer of Pomona Capital. “We are thrilled to have him join the Partner team and are confident he will make a significant contribution to the success of the firm going forward.”
Stephens joined Pomona in 2011 and led the Asia office for three years before becoming the firm’s chief financial officer in 2015. Now based in New York,
Four Springs Capital has hired Gregory Kammerer as Senior Vice President on its capital markets team. Kammerer will focus his efforts on representing Four Springs transactions primarily with family offices and institutional investors.
Kammerer brings nearly a decade of experience working with family offices and institutions within the real estate and private equity sectors. Prior to joining Four Springs Capital, Kammerer worked at a private equity real estate fund, working on nearly USD500,000,000 of value add real estate transactions. Kammerer rejoins Four Springs Capital where he originally started his career.
“We are pleased to welcome Greg back to the
Bain Capital Ventures, a seed-to-growth stage investor focused on enterprise software and technology, has appointed Adam Levin as a partner in Boston, focused on growth stage investing.
Levin will be responsible for identifying and cultivating investments in enterprise software and data services companies.
Levin most recently worked as a vice president in growth private equity at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors in Los Angeles, where he focused on software-as-a-service and enterprise companies. While there, he led investments in DiCentral, Proficio, Azalea and Cryptzone (acquired by BC Partners) among others. Before Kayne Anderson, Levin was a venture associate at Crosslink Capital
Alter Domus, a provider of fund and corporate services to alternative investment managers, has appointed Alexander Traub as the new Regional Executive Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. Traub is also a member of the Alter Domus Group Executive Board.
Traub has had a broadly diversified 18 year career in financial services, almost all of which has been spent in Asia with the last 10 years in Singapore. He spent the last four years building the Asian business of a global private equity and real estate fund services group from a 4 person office in Singapore to approximately 300 people across
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