Twin Brook Capital Partners (Twin Brook), the middle-market direct lending subsidiary of Angelo, Gordon & Co, has appointed Timothy Schifer, former Director of Portfolio Management at Madison Capital Funding, as a Managing Director focused on underwriting and portfolio management.  Twin Brook also announced that Vishal Sheth, former Director on Angelo, Gordon’s finance and accounting team, has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Messrs. Schifer and Sheth are based in Chicago.   “Tim is a well-respected industry executive with significant expertise underwriting and managing middle-market loan transactions. Having previously worked closely with Tim for more than a decade, we have witnessed first-hand

Sky9 Capital, a China venture capital firm, has added KS Chay, Dr Kok Peng Teh, Bob Xu, and Jason Zeng to its advisory board to provide strategic advice and foster long-term partnerships. Chay is Founder and Chairman of Enspire Capital, and previously he co-founded Singapore’s first Nasdaq-listed technology company, Creative Technology Ltd (SGX:C76). Teh is currently Senior Advisor and Board Member for China International Capital Corporation, and he was President of Government of Singapore Special Investments (GIC) for over a decade until 2011. Xu co-founded New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE:EDU), the largest provider of private education in China,

Macquarie Capital, the corporate advisory, capital markets and principal investing arm of Macquarie Group (Macquarie) has appointed Anand Subramanian as a Managing Director and Co-Head of Private Capital Markets in its San Francisco office. Subramanian has more than two decades of industry experience, having spent the majority of his career raising private capital for growing companies, and has a track record for launching new successful business lines. He joins from Qatalyst Partners, where he executed on a number of significant transactions after establishing its private capital business. He was previously Head of Technology Private Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley where

Goodwin, a leading Global 50 law firm, has expanded its international Private Equity and Private Investment Funds practices with the appointment of Alexandrine Armstrong-Cerfontaine as partner in its London office.   Armstrong-Cerfontaine focuses on fund formation and transactions, advising private equity sponsors on their investments and corporate finance, drawing on her experience on business management, corporate finance, restructuring, compensation, retirement plans and advising financial sponsors and management in setting-up complex compensation schemes as part of leverage buyout transactions. She also has a general experience in syndicated financings (including leveraged financing and restructurings) and a particular experience in fund financings.  

YFM Equity Partners’ (YFM) British Smaller Companies VCT (BSC) has appointed Rupert Cook as an independent non-executive director.
 Cook specialises in corporate and business development, with twenty five years’ experience of technology, sales, marketing and general management, including fifteen years in corporate finance and investment. Earlier in his career, he was a senior manager at Cap Gemini plc and then Director of Advisory Services at Interregnum plc. 
   Cook is the founder of Red Penguin Ventures Limited, and was previously a partner at Realise Capital Partners LLP, both of which are firms which advise and invest in a range of

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig has added two new private equity tax shareholders – Chang Choi in Northern Virginia, and Kevin Zaragoza in New York. “This continues to be an exciting time for both the firm and our private equity and tax practices. The addition of specialists with the expertise, talent, and experience as Chang and Kevin possess is in keeping with our ongoing strategic growth and commitment to provide our clients with high-level, sophisticated, service in one place,” says Bruce I March, Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s global Corporate Practice.   “Both Chang and Kevin are excellent additions to our

NRD Capital Management, an Atlanta-based private equity firm specialising in franchised and multi-unit business investments, has appointed John Teza as Director, supporting business development and portfolio company growth.  The addition of Teza, who has nearly two decades of experience leading and working with franchised and multi-unit restaurant brands, is part of NRD’s growth strategy coming out of their recently closed second fund, NRD Partners II. The second fund, which closed on July 11th, had total investor limited partner commitments of USD104 million, exceeding the fund’s target of USD100 million.   “After recently closing Fund II, bringing John on-board was the