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Moelis & Company, an independent investment bank, has apointed Pablo de la Infiesta as a Managing Director and Head of the Private Funds Advisory (PFA) group in EMEA.
He will join the Firm’s London office in October and will provide capital raising, secondary and other advisory services to private fund sponsors and limited partners globally.
De la Infiesta has over 20 years of private equity fund placement, secondary advisory, and investment banking experience. He joins Moelis & Company after 11 years at Lazard where he was most recently a Managing Director and European Head of the Private Capital Advisory
Private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners (TSG) has named Jessica Duran Chief Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and Managing Director, effective 5 July, 2017. Duran succeeds Wallace Wertsch, who will remain with TSG as an advisor.
“We are excited to welcome Jessica to the TSG team,” says Chuck Esserman, CEO and Founder of TSG Consumer Partners. “Her financial acumen and experience working with a wide variety of private equity firms and funds will help us better serve our investors and support our partner companies.
“On behalf of the entire TSG team, we’d like to thank Wally for his significant
Scott D Peterman (pictured), has joined Orrick as a partner in the firm’s M&A and private equity practice in Hong Kong.
Peterman, who joins from Jones Day, is the sixth partner to join Orrick’s global M&A practice over the past year and will be the firm’s fifth partner in Hong Kong. Last month, the firm announced the addition of Mark Lehmkuhler, a former Davis Polk partner, to our M&A practice in Hong Kong.
“The addition of Scott and Mark are two great steps forward in advancing our Greater China strategy,” says Xiang Wang, Orrick’s Asia Managing Partner. “They add
Dr Gunther Thumann has been formally appointed Chairman of Jersey Finance.
Dr Gunther Thumann graduated summa cum laude with a PhD in economics and statistics from the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg and, between 1978 and 1994, was an Economist in the German civil service and subsequently Senior Economist for the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.
After joining Salomon Brothers in London as Managing Director, in the late 1990s he founded a consultancy specialising in central banks. In 2007 Dr Thumann was appointed Partner, CEO and Chairman of the board of Brevan Howard Capital Management in Jersey (Channel Islands)
Mid Europa Partners, a private equity investor focused on Central and South Eastern Europe, has appointed Alain Beyens as an Operating Partner.
Beyens’ experience and skills will enable him to play a key role in supporting Mid Europa’s portfolio companies to build strong and differentiated competitive positions though operating excellence and successful execution of buy-and-build approach. Alain’s primary objectives will be to support accelerated value creation in existing portfolio companies, assist in commercial evaluation of new investment opportunities, and lead the on-boarding of new portfolio companies.
Commenting on the appointment, Robert Knorr, Co-Managing Partner of Mid Europa, says: “We
Venture capital investor Octopus Ventures has appointed Stephen Morana as a Venture Partner.
Morana brings with him 20 years’ experience working with some of the most successful UK digital businesses such as Betfair, Zoopla and boohoo.com.
In his role as Venture Partner, Morana will be supporting Octopus Ventures’ portfolio businesses in their growth strategies. Having been integral in three British businesses achieving unicorn status, and driving two to IPO, the high-growth companies will benefit from Morana’s first-hand experience in scaling up an organisation. Morana will be working with a variety of Octopus’ portfolio businesses to advise them on growth
Ogier has promoted two senior investment funds specialists in its Cayman team in recognition of their experience and technical skill.
Ben Gillooly (pictured), has been promoted to Counsel, while Justin Savage has become a Managing Associate.
Gillooly Ben works with major financial institutions, hedge fund managers and their onshore counsel with a particular focus on Latin American financial markets. He is Caymanian and has been qualified in the jurisdiction for more than ten years. Gillooly also has experience working in Hong Kong.
Ogier introduced the new Counsel role to the firm’s structure at the start of the year.
Inflexion has promoted Andrew Mainwaring and Andrew Priest to Partner with immediate effect. A further five promotions have also been announced across the firm’s team.
This follows Inflexion’s very recent investment in ProLabs, representing the tenth investment in under a year.
Mainwaring is a Partner within Inflexion’s Enterprise Fund team. The Fund is dedicated to accelerating growth in lower mid-market companies, bringing Inflexion’s full suite of value accretive expertise to companies with an equity requirement of GBP10 million to GBP20 million. Mainwaring co-led our recent investment in K2 Partnering Solutions and was closely involved in the buyouts of Shimtech
SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has appointed Matt Smith (pictured), a highly-experienced regulatory tech specialist, as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Smith’s appointment is aimed at helping drive the firm’s growth as it markets its secure and scalable data storage platform which incorporates best-in-class analytics. The SteelEye product has been designed to help financial firms meet their obligations under MiFID II, whilst also acquiring valuable insights into their businesses.
Smith brings over 18 years of technology and management expertise to SteelEye. He joins from Bloomberg where he was a senior product manager working on a range
MARU Group (MARU), a technology-enabled market and customer insights group which is backed by private equity firm Primary Capital Partners, has appointed Heather McRae as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with immediate effect.
This appointment further strengthens the Group’s operational expertise, as it pursues its acquisitive growth strategy.
McRae brings over 25 years’ experience in the financial services sector, in numerous senior finance positions. Heather joins from the Group’s portfolio company, Maru/edr, where she was appointed CFO in February 2016.
Prior to joining Maru/edr, Heather held a number of senior finance roles at the global advertising and marketing services
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