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Livingstone has added Krishan Raval, Joe Austin and Dustin Stevens, to the team in its London office.
Raval joins Livingstone’s Debt Advisory team. Raval trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with EY working in the Capital & Debt Advisory team for almost three years. While there he gained experience with a number of high profile clients raising finance through a variety of debt market instruments.
Stevens qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte working in South Africa and Chicago where he gained experience with clients across a variety of sectors. In 2015 Stevens moved to KPMG’s Deal Advisory
Audax Private Equity has partnered with management to acquire Altasciences Company, an early phase contract research organisation (CRO) in North America.
Audax acquired Altasciences from Kilmer Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Toronto, Canada. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Altasciences, headquartered in Laval, Quebec, encompasses Algorithme Pharma, Vince & Associates Clinical Research, and Algorithme Pharma USA. Altasciences offers expertise in the execution of a wide range of New Drug Application (NDA) enabling clinical trials and support services including data management, biostatistics, medical writing, and bioanalysis.
Geoffrey S Rehnert, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Audax Group,
Offshore law firm, Mourant Ozannes, has promoted 12 lawyers to the role of Counsel across its global network of offices, bringing the total number of Counsel across the firm to 31.
Six have been promoted in the firm’s Guernsey office, four in Jersey, one in the Cayman Islands and one in Hong Kong. Seven of those appointed work within the firm’s corporate practice, and five within the firm’s litigation practice.
Mourant Ozannes Global Managing Partner, Jonathan Rigby, said: “We are committed to developing and recruiting the best lawyers in their fields, and believe that providing our people with a
Campbell Lutyens, a global alternative asset advisory firms focused on fund placement and secondary transactions, has appointed Dr Teh Kok Peng to its Advisory Board.
Peng, was President of GIC Special Investments from April 1999 to June 2011, and remained an Adviser to GIC’s Group Executive Committee for two years after that. Prior to that, he was concurrently a deputy managing director of GIC and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Peng obtained a first class honours economics degree at La Trobe University in Australia, a PhD at Nuffield College, Oxford University and attended the AMP course at Harvard Business School
JP Morgan Asset Management has hired two seasoned private credit investors, Brad Demong and Leander Christofides, to join its Alternatives business as co-CIOs of a new Global Special Situations group.
Demong and Christofides previously held senior roles in JP Morgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank, most recently managing Leverage & Distressed Private Side Research and Trading for the EMEA region. They left the firm in 2016, and will now re-join effective today. Demong and Christofides will be based in New York and London, respectively.
The team managed by Demong and Christofides will operate globally and will report into Co-Managing Partners of JP
The Chicago office of global law firm K&L Gates has added David D Dueno as a partner in the private equity practice. He joins K&L Gates from international private equity firm Quantum Global Group, and previously practiced with international law firms in London, New York, and Chicago.
Dueno concentrates his practice on mergers, acquisitions, private equity, and finance in domestic and cross-border transactions in emerging markets, with a particular focus on Africa. He represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies, venture capital funds, and public and private companies across a variety of industries, including telecommunications, manufacturing, infrastructure, energy, financial services,
FundRock Management Company has appointed Enda Fahy (pictured), to head up the Illiquid Alternatives function at its Luxembourg Headquarters.
FundRock, one of the largest independent UCITS and AIFM investment management companies in Europe, has recently opened its Irish branch and has announced its intention to acquire a UK-based ACD. FundRock, as part of its five-year strategy, is also developing its current AIFM business to cover illiquid assets.
Over the 15 year course of his career to date, Fahy has acquired extensive experience in the Real Estate and Private Equity industries. Prior to relocating to Luxembourg, he was based in
BGF has expanded its investment team into the Republic of Ireland with the appointment of Leo Casey who will officially join in September.
Casey joins from IBI Corporate Finance where he was a director and board member. Based in Dublin, he has more than 17 years’ experience and knowledge of the Irish mid-market, helping Irish owner managed and family businesses secure growth capital and unlock value. Last year Leo completed significant deals on behalf of Ireland’s Americk Packaging, Arconics and Retail InMotion.
Before IBI, Casey worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in Paris, and began his career at PwC in
Jason Ganz has joined US Bancorp Fund Services as senior vice president of business development. Ganz, based in Atlanta, will focus on the continued growth of the company’s alternative investment service offering throughout the southern and western states.
“We are excited to continue to expand our dedicated team of professionals serving the hedge fund community,” says Bob Kern, executive vice president of business development at US Bancorp Fund Services. “Jason’s experience and expertise in hedge funds, fund of funds, private equity, and middle office services helps strengthen our team and provides additional support for our clients.”
Ganz has more than
NewAlpha Asset Management, the Paris-based global emerging manager acceleration specialist and private equity investor, has appointed Adrien Auric as Director of Operational Due Diligence.
Given the diversification of its business activities, New Alpha AM has chosen to reinforce its team in order to increase its investment analysis capabilities.
Prior to joining NewAlpha, Auric was in charge of Investment Due Diligence at Reinhold & Partners, a specialized consultancy firm working for top tier institutional investors. He also served as Independent Funds Director in various jurisdictions, including France, Ireland and Luxembourg.
Auric spent seven years with JP Morgan, initially (2007-2009),
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