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The Boston office of global law firm K&L Gates has added James A Wright III (pictured), as a partner in the restructuring and insolvency practice. Wright previously practiced with Ropes & Gray.
Wright represents corporations, bondholders, private equity funds, hedge funds, institutional investors, and other parties in corporate restructuring matters including reorganisations, asset sales, liquidations, claim allowance adversary proceedings, setoff rights, and restructurings of portfolio companies. With an emphasis on large Chapter 11 cases, Wright has advised companies in the energy, oil and gas, financial services, health care, automotive, pharmaceutical, technology, and manufacturing industries in debtor-in-possession and committee representations. He has
Edge Investments (Edge), a specialist investment house focused on the creative industries sector, has promoted Steve Carle to the role of Chief Investment Officer for the Edge Performance VCT.
Carle joined Edge in 2015 as Investment Director following a successful 20 year career with the UK’s two leading mid-market private equity companies – 3i Group and LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group – before leaving in 2010 to take on a number of private successful business opportunities before joining Edge.
Over the last year, Steve has focused on managing both Edge’s GBP40 million Edge Creative Enterprise
GPB Capital has named Dotty Bollinger, who has more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry, as Managing Partner in charge of its new Healthcare Strategy.
GPB Capital focuses on acquiring mature, income-producing companies in necessity-based sectors, including retail automotive, waste management, and managed IT, and now, healthcare.
“Dotty has an impressive track record of working closely with healthcare companies to achieve the next level of growth and profitability, while delivering medical innovations directly to patients and driving outstanding financial results to investors,” says David Gentile, Founder and CEO of GPB Capital. “Dotty’s broad expertise and experience
Palatine Private Equity has continued to strengthen its offering in the responsible investment space with two new recruits to its returns-focused Impact Fund.
James Gregson joins the Manchester team as Investment Director, while Matt Coles has joined as Investment Manager in the London office.
Gregson joins from advisory firm BDO, where he spent 11 years, including seven in the M&A team advising clients on domestic and international transactions across a variety of sectors. He has particular mid-market expertise, advising on deals generally between GBP5m and GBP20m in value.
Coles previously worked at PwC for seven years, with four
Specialist lender Investec’s Growth & Acquisition Finance (GAF) team has made a senior hire to support its ambitions in the UK mid-market.
James Goût joins from Barclays to continue the expansion of the GAF business, which provides funding for entrepreneurs, management teams and private equity houses in the UK mid-market.
Known for its flexibility in structuring across the entire capital structure, offering revolving asset-based facilities, senior cash flow lending, mezzanine finance and minority equity, GAF places a strong emphasis on its partnerships and commercial approach to supporting growing businesses.
Goût joins from Barclays, where he has significant experience across the
Private equity firm Angeles Equity Partners (AEP) has added three to its team. Maxwell Schechter joins the firm as Vice President of Business Development, focusing on deal origination and marketing. James Lee and Shan Siddiqui join AEP as Associates concentrating on the evaluation, due diligence and execution of new investment opportunities.
Angeles Equity Partners I, and its parallel funds (collectively, “AEP I”) have USD360 million in capital commitments from a diverse group of institutional investors, including public and private pension plans, endowments, foundations, a sovereign wealth fund, and alternative asset managers in North America and Europe. AEP I focuses on
TowerBrook Capital Partners-backed Gravity Media Group (GMG), which acquires businesses serving the live broadcast sector, has appointed Paul Greensmith as its new Chief Financial Officer to oversee the company’s growth strategy.
Following recent acquisitions and investment, GMG’s current companies include Gearhouse Broadcast, Hyperactive Broadcast and Input Media – companies that supply technical equipment, facilities and services to capture live and near live content to broadcasters, production companies and rights holders around the world.
Paul Greensmith has over 15 years’ experience working as a Chief Financial Officer with private equity owners across a range of sectors. Roles included positions at
Global law firm Jones Day has appointed Charles Chau as a partner in the firm’s M&A Practice in Hong Kong.
An adviser for nearly 20 years to clients in Hong Kong, mainland China, and the Asia-Pacific region, Chau has extensive experience in public and private company acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, and pre-IPO investment transactions. His experience encompasses a wide range of industry sectors, including banking and financial services, health care, biotech, retail, real estate, and manufacturing.
“Charles brings tremendous experience to our transaction capabilities in the region,” says Joelle Lau, Partner-in-Charge of Jones Day’s Hong Kong Office. “Given the
Maven Capital Partners (Maven) has appointed Craig Hopwood as an Investment Director, based in the Manchester office.
Hopwood joins from HSBC where he was responsible for looking after a portfolio of larger private equity-backed businesses across the region including Fircroft, Tangerine and Innovia. Prior to this, he worked in the private equity teams at Northstar Equity Investors and Spirit Capital Partners LLP, having previously been part of PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ Corporate Finance Private Equity advisory team.
At Maven, Hopwood will be responsible for sourcing and leading new growth capital and private equity investments across the North of England. In addition to
Los Angeles-based private equity firm LightBay Capital has appointed David Leeney as a Managing Director and Head of Business Development. He will be responsible for coordinating LightBay’s deal sourcing and relationship management efforts.
Leeney brings more than 14 years of business development, origination, and investor relations experience to LightBay. Prior to joining the firm, Leeney spent ten years at The Gores Group, where he most recently served as the Head of Global Origination and oversaw business development for all of Gores’ investment vehicles, including its small-cap and mid-cap funds. Prior to Gores, Leeney worked as an investor relations consultant at
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