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Business advisory firm FRP Advisory has strengthened its team in the Midlands with the promotion to partner of Arvindar Singh-Sall, who is based in the firm’s Birmingham office.
FRP Advisory Midlands team now comprises 31 staff, including six partners and five directors spread across offices in Birmingham and Leicester covering the West Midlands and East Midlands.
Singh-Sall has extensive experience in business and corporate restructuring and re-financing across a broad range of sectors, and has become a key advisor to corporate stakeholders, providing advisory and insolvency services to companies at times of financial distress and critical change to their
Private equity lawyer Fraser Dawson has been elected partner at Gibson Dunn, effective 1 January 2018.
Dawson, who is based in the firm’s Dubai Office, has experience in acting on a broad range of M&A and other corporate transactions including MBOs, JVs, secondary buy-outs, co-investments, consortium arrangements, restructurings, convertible loan issues and trade sales.
During his career, in both Europe and the Middle East, he has represented leading private equity institutions, well-known multinationals and ‘best-in-class’ regional corporates in highly publicised and market-leading transactions. He graduated in 2002 from the University of Edinburgh.
Idinvest Partners has appointed Charles Daulon du Laurens as Partner and Global Head of Investor Relations and Marketing.
Daulon du Larens will be in charge capital raising, investor relations and marketing functions on a global basis, managing teams based in Europe and Asia.
He joins from AXA IM-Real Assets, where he was Global Head of Client Capital Group and a member of the Executive Committee. In that role he had the global responsibility for the company’s third-party capital raising, client relationship management and client servicing, heading a team of 15 professionals across the US, Europe and Asia.
Prior
Victory Park Capital (VPC), an investment firm focused on middle-market debt and equity investments, has appointed Troy Jamison as chief risk officer (CRO) for the firm’s nonbank financial services portfolio.
Jamison is based in Chicago and reports directly to CEO and Co-Founder Richard Levy.
As VPC’s first CRO, Jamison oversees the assessment and management of risk within the firm’s credit and equity portfolios, as well as evaluates and executes investments and assists portfolio companies with strategic initiatives.
“Troy’s notable experience and expertise in all areas of our business will be a true value-add in evaluating risk and advising
Global law firm Ropes & Gray has appointed Keren Rimon as counsel in the firm’s private investment funds practice in Boston.
Rimon joins Ropes & Gray from Harvard Management Company where she most recently held the position of Senior Vice President – Private Funds. In this capacity, Rimon provided comprehensive legal support to HMC’s hedge fund, absolute return and private equity portfolios. This included managing legal processes across a wide range of fund investment matters on behalf of the endowment. Rimon also advised HMC’s portfolio teams on complex investment structures tailored to the endowment, including separately managed accounts, single-member funds
Offshore law firm Carey Olsen has expanded its finance practice in the Cayman Islands with the appointment of Dylan Wiltermuth who has joined the firm as Counsel.
Wiltermuth (pictured), is an experienced Cayman Islands lawyer who specialises in all aspects of structured finance and securitisation transactions as well as public and private mergers and acquisitions. His recent capital market experience includes a substantial number of CLO closings and advising a number of leading global banks and issuers.
He joins Carey Olsen’s rapidly expanding team in the Cayman Islands, which is widely recognised for advising global financial institutions on innovative
Exaltare Capital Partners has appointed Benjamin Kahn as a Managing Director. Kahn joins from HIG Growth Partners where he served as a Principal in the Boston office and had worked for nine years.
“We are excited to have a professional with Ben’s background and level of private equity experience join our team. Ben has a proven track record investing in and managing portfolio companies across Exaltare’s four key industry verticals. With the recent closing of our initial institutional private equity fund, Ben will help lead our investment effort as we look to further build the portfolio,” says Omar Simmons, founder
Palatine Private Equity has strengthened its UK team with the appointment of Gareth Wilson as Portfolio Operations Director to boost operational efficiencies across its portfolio.
Wilson is an experienced management consultant and joins the firm having worked as an independent consultant leading key strategic and cost saving projects for a number of private equity backed companies. He has also worked as a Senior Associate at McKinsey & Company and Together Group, where he provided strategic advice and guidance to its chief executive.
In his new role at Palatine, Wilson will be responsible for improving the performance of the firm’s
Loyens & Loeff, lawyers, tax advisers and civil law notaries, has appointed Barbara Voskamp as a partner in its Singapore office.
Prior to joining Loyens & Loeff Barbara worked at EY as tax partner in the International Tax Department. As head of the European desk she assisted ASEAN based companies with tax matters in respect of their European holdings and, as coordinating partner, advised European companies on their tax matters throughout ASEAN.
Willem Jarigsma, Managing Partner, says: “We are confident that with Barbara we will be even better placed to service the increasing number of Asian clients that invest in or through our home market in the Netherlands,
Adams Street Partners, a private markets investment management firm with over USD30 billion of assets under management, has appointed James Walker as a Partner and Chief Operating Officer.
Walker will report to Jeff Diehl, Managing Partner and Head of Investments, will join the Executive Committee of the firm, and will chair the firm’s Operating Committee.
“Jim is an exceptional professional who brings extensive strategic and operational leadership experience to our firm,” says Diehl. “As Adams Street completes its 45th year and looks toward the future, it is vitally important that we are able to execute on the increasingly complex needs of
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