Law firm Morrison & Foerster has appointed Serena Tan as a partner in the corporate group in the firm’s Hong Kong office. A native Mandarin speaker, Tan comes to the firm from Debevoise & Plimpton bringing expertise in fund formation and fund management.   Her joining Morrison & Foerster also further builds on the firm’s recent expansion in Hong Kong.   Tan represents a wide range of sponsors and investors in the formation, structuring and related activities of buyout funds, growth capital funds, venture capital funds, co-investment vehicles, and other alternative investment funds. She also advises fund sponsors on carried

Pan-European private equity firm IK Investment Partners has appointed Johan Van de Steen as operating partner as of April 2017. Van de Steen will head IK’s strategy, operations and business control (SOBC) team.   Van de Steen, 51, has substantial hands-on industrial experience, acquired over more than two decades in the corporate, management consulting and private equity environments. He began his career in industry, working for Siemens before joining McKinsey & Company as a strategy consultant. He then became one of the founding European team members of KKR Capstone. He spent 15 years in private equity before joining IK.  

Global Loan Agency Services, the UK parent of the global GLAS companies, has appointed two veteran trust professionals to its global trust team. Martin Reed and Adam Berman, long-time specialists in corporate trust administration and corporate financial services, will help lead GLAS globally as vice-presidents of corporate trust and agency administration for the Americas and its newly established trust services.   This announcement comes after GLAS Trust Company recently received its US regulatory approval, allowing the organisation to further diversify its current product offerings. The new license offers GLAS the opportunity to significantly expand its market share.   Reed is

Campbell Lutyens, a global alternative asset advisory firm focused on fund placement and secondary transactions, has added Wayne Kozun to its advisory board. Kozun was until recently a senior vice president at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board where his various responsibilities included management of OTPP’s global public equities portfolio, the relationship investing team and the direct long term private equity investing team.    He co-chaired OTPP’s responsible investment committee and was responsible for the opening of OTPP’s Asian office in Hong Kong in 2013. He joined OTPP in 1995.   Kozun serves on the boards of the Pacific Pension &

Direct lender Beechbrook Capital, which backs small and medium-sized businesses in the UK with a turnover of between GBP10 million and GBP100 million and EBITDA of more than GBP1 million, has opened its first regional office in Manchester. The office, in Hardman Square, Spinningfields, will support the UK SME Credit fund, which provides finance to UK SMEs.   The Manchester office will be run by investment director Matt Kenny, who joined Beechbrook at the beginning of April. His previous roles include three years as an investment director with LDC, originating and leading mid-market private equity investments, and more than six

Pan-European private equity firm Agilitas has appointed Debojit Mukherjee as chief operating officer (COO) with immediate effect. Debojit joins Agilitas after seven years at Change Capital Partners, where he was chief financial officer and prior to that head of operations.   Earlier career positions have included director of operations and financial controller at Carbon Capital Markets and IBD analyst at Barclays Capital.   Debojit qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Bright Grahame Murray.    Martin Calderbank, managing partner at Agilitas, says: “We are very pleased to welcome Debojit to Agilitas. His operational and organisational skills will be an invaluable asset