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Global law firm Ropes & Gray has appointed Will Rosen as co-managing partner of its London office, to work alongside current office managing partner Mike Goetz. The appointment starts with immediate effect.
Rosen, who is also co-head of the firm’s international practice group, has been a partner at Ropes & Gray in London since 2011. He has over 20 years of experience advising private equity funds and corporate clients on M&A and private equity transactions.
Goetz has been managing partner of the firm’s London office since it launched in 2010. A US-qualified partner in the firm’s finance practice, he is
EyeSouth Partners has appointed Rex Adams to the Company as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). EyeSouth is a network of affiliated medical and surgical specialty eye care practices in Georgia and the broader Southeast, formed by private equity firm Shore Capital Partners.
Adams will work closely with the senior leadership team and physician partners to provide strategic guidance and operating expertise to the Company’s practice network in support of a patient-first culture, while also pursuing organic growth and affiliation opportunities to expand patient access.
Adams was most recently the Chief Executive Officer of Payspan, the nation’s leading provider of health
MMC Ventures has promoted Head of Research, David Kelnar, to Partner.
MMC has focused on the technology sector since it was founded in 2000. Under David Kelnar’s leadership MMC has built up a widely recognised Research function which it uses to guide its investment themes and to provide the entrepreneurs it backs with deep domain knowledge.
Kelnar was uniquely suited to head MMC’s Research team. His technology research experience was gained at Goldman Sachs and New York hedge fund, Calypso Capital. This coupled with his own entrepreneurial experience having raised capital for his own startup and operational experience
Cooley is expanding its Asia-Pacific presence with the launch of a Beijing office, the firm’s 13th worldwide and its second in China, having opened in Shanghai in 2011.
Investment funds lawyer Xun Zeng joins from Ropes & Gray and will be Cooley’s first resident partner in Beijing.
“China is a critical part of Cooley’s global growth strategy, and we are happy to welcome Xun Zeng to our partnership,” says Mike Lincoln, global chair of Cooley’s business department. “We have a history of achievement across the Asia-Pacific region and, in particular, have worked with private investment fund clients over three
Law firm Paul Hastings has appointed Rich Davis as a partner in the firm’s Finance practice, based in Washington, DC. He joins from DLA Piper, where he was a partner.
“Finance is one of our fastest growing practices at Paul Hastings thanks to increased client demand,” says Seth Zachary, chair of Paul Hastings. “Rich is a leader in the structured lending and fintech finance field and his addition bolsters our global structured lending capabilities.”
“Paul Hastings’ top-tier global Finance practice will allow me to take my practice to the next level. My clients are excited that I will be working
KKR has appointed Jacques Veyrat as a Senior Advisor to support the firm’s investment activities in France.
Veyrat is a senior French executive with deep experience across a range of different sectors. He currently manages his own company, Impala SAS, a diversified investment company with around EUR1bn net asset value, active in energy, manufacturing, consumer brands, and asset management. Before founding Impala in 2011, Veyrat served as Chairman and Chief Executive of the global merchant and commodity company Louis Dreyfus Group, and of telecoms company Neuf Cegetel before its acquisition by SFR.
Johannes Huth, Member and Head of KKR
Mid Europa Partners, a private equity firm focused on Central and Eastern Europe, has promoted Andrej Babache to partner.
Robert Knorr and Matthew Strassberg, Mid Europa’s Co-Managing Partners, say: “We are delighted to welcome Andrej to the Partnership and to recognise his commitment and significant contribution to the success of Mid Europa.”
Babache joined Mid Europa in 2006 and has worked on sourcing, executing and monitoring of investments. Prior to joining Mid Europa, he worked in Citigroup’s Investment Banking Division in London, focusing on transactions in CEE. Andrej graduated with a Masters with joint honours in Economics and Business
Alternative investment manager Highland Capital Management has added two institutional business development professionals to its team – Laurie Whetstone as managing director, and Kieran Brennan as director.
The appointments have been made in anticipation of increased opportunities in distressed credit.
The firm currently operates stressed and distressed credit strategies within various portfolios across the platform. Highland established a dedicated distressed private equity fund during the last credit cycle, focusing on control-oriented investments in senior secured loans of companies in complex distressed situations. Capitalising on opportunities that arose from the aggressive issuance of non-investment grade debt in the years prior,
Marc Wursdorfer has joined UBS as a Managing Director and EMEA Head of the Private Funds Group.
Wursdorfer brings a wealth of experience in private equity fundraising and secondary advisory having joined us from Credit Suisse, where he spent 15 years, initially in investment banking both in Zurich and London before joining the Credit Suisse Private Funds Group in 2008.
He was responsible for capital raising throughout the Nordics in addition to sourcing primary fundraising and secondary opportunities.
Wursdorfer will report to Kevin Kuryla, Global Head of Private Funds Group in addition to Javier Oficialdegui, Head of CCS EMEA.
Angelo, Gordon & Co, an alternative investment firm focused on credit and real estate investing, has appointed Ryan Mollett as Global Head of Distressed Debt.
Mollett was most recently a Senior Managing Director of GSO Capital Partners LP, the global credit investment platform of Blackstone, where he focused on distressed and special situation investing. Mollett will report to Josh Baumgarten, Angelo, Gordon’s co-Chief Investment Officer.
Michael Gordon, Chief Executive Officer and co-CIO at Angelo, Gordon, says: “Distressed debt investing has been a core element of Angelo, Gordon’s investment strategy since the firm began nearly 30 years ago. Ryan is
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