King & Spalding has appointed Bradley T Giordano as a partner in the Chicago office. Giordano will bolster the firm’s Financial Restructuring practice and will serve a key role in expanding the firm’s recently opened Chicago office.    Giordano represents debtors, creditors, equity sponsors and strategic investors in all aspects of in-court and out-of-court restructurings. In addition to company-side representations, he advises credit and private equity fund clients on strategic acquisitions or dispositions of distressed assets. He joins from Kirkland & Ellis, where he was a partner.
    “Brad is known to be a savvy problem-solver in the restructuring world,

Transom Capital Group (Transom), a Los Angeles-based, private equity firm, has promoted James Oh to Partner and member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Oh joined Transom in 2015 and is responsible for sourcing investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, executing transactions, and monitoring portfolio companies including financial/operational oversight and capital structure management. He currently serves on the board of directors of Transom portfolio companies AT Cross, Bravo Sports, Heath/Zenith and Loud Audio. Oh previously served on the board of directors for American Driveline Systems.   Transom invests into opportunities across multiple industries where operational substance combines with management’s industry knowledge to create

Cairngorm Capital has appointed Lucy Graham as Investment Director and Panita Vongkusolkit as Investment Manager.  With over 20 years’ experience in leveraged nance and corporate law, Graham joins from Clydesdale Bank, where most recently she was Senior Corporate Finance Partner responsible for developing Clydesdale’s inorganic strategy involving acquisitions, sale transactions, joint ventures and for delivering growth opportunities. Previously she spent ten years as a Senior Director in the bank’s leveraged nance team working alongside private equity and corporate investors generating bespoke structured financial solutions to support their growth plans, acquisitions, management buy outs and recapitalisations. Graham was responsible for developing

Experienced offshore investment funds lawyer Sophie Reguengo has joined Ogier’s Jersey funds team. Reguengo has almost 15 years’ experience as an offshore funds specialist working in both Jersey and Hong Kong – her practice focuses on private equity and real estate structures.   Reguengo’s arrival in the Jersey funds team further boosts Ogier’s global funds offering, following the arrival of partner Emily Haithwaite to the Jersey team last year and the recent recruitment of investment funds-focused Counsel Emma Sutherland (Cayman), James Bermingham (Luxembourg), and managing associate Oliver Quarmby (Guernsey).   Reguengo, a Jersey-qualified Solicitor, has been recognised as a “Rising

Barings, a leading global financial services firm with over USD300 billion in assets under management, announced that the five member investment team from Aldea Capital Partners has joined Barings Alternative Investments (BAI) group. The Aldea team, a provider of customised private equity solutions, has integrated with BAI’s Funds & Co-Investments (FCI) platform, a team consisting of 25 investment professionals across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.   Mina Pacheco Nazemi and Patrick O’Hara, the co-founders of Aldea, will be located in Charlotte, NC and Nazemi will assume a position on FCI’s leadership team and Investment Committee.   “As investor demand

InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s venture capital arm, today announces the appointment of Lars Klawitter as Executive Director Strategic Business. Klawitter joins the business this month, and he will lead the development of proprietary mobility services and their integration into Jaguar Land Rover products and services. He will also oversee strategic partnerships and alignment on government affairs and act as an internal consultant.   Sebastian Peck, Managing Director, InMotion Ventures, says: “I am delighted to welcome Lars to the InMotion team. He joins us at an exciting time as we build on the investment success of 2017 and look to increase the

Law firm Paul Hastings has appointed Eiji Kobayashi, a corporate M&A and compliance/investigations lawyer, as a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice in Tokyo, Japan. Kobayashi joins from Norton Rose Fulbright where he was a partner and Head of Corporate, M&A and Securities for Japan. His corporate team totalling four other people is expected to join in the coming weeks.   “Eiji and his team will strengthen our Asia Corporate practice in a strategically important location for our clients by helping them with their complex outbound acquisitions, cross-border investigations and compliance challenges,” says Seth Zachary, chair of Paul Hastings. “Eiji is

Palatine Private Equity continues to invest in its UK team with the promotion of James Painter to Investment Manager and the appointment of Mathew Thompson as Financial Controller. Painter joined the firm in February 2016 as Investment Executive from KPMG’s corporate finance team. He has been involved in a number of transactions at Palatine including the buyout of holiday park operator Verdant Leisure, the GBP21 million investment in housebuilder Westleigh, and the firm’s investment in TTC Group, a provider of road user and cycling education courses.   More recently, Painter was involved in Palatine’s investment in ZyroFisher, the leading distributor