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YFM Equity Partners has appointed James Savage as portfolio director.
Based in the London office, he will focus on actively managing YFM’s growth and buy-out investments as part of the portfolio team led by David Bell.
With over 12 years’ industry experience, Savage joins from Barclays’ Principal Investments team (formerly Barclays Ventures) where he was vice president, working on a range of transaction types, situations and across sectors with a primary focus on value creation and realisation. Prior to this he advised private equity sponsors and management teams at BDO.
David Hall, managing director of YFM, says: “We
bfinance, an independently owned investment consultancy, has appointed Anish Butani to strengthen infrastructure coverage in the private markets team.
Butani (pictured) joins from KPMG Corporate Finance, where he gained over 8 years’ experience as a senior member of the infrastructure corporate finance team based in London, advising investors on M&A transactions and valuations.
During his time at KPMG, Butani advised on transactions involving over GBP3 billion worth of assets, with a specific focus on secondary market M&A in the UK PFI and PPP sector. In addition, Butani provided valuation advice to a number of leading global infrastructure fund managers,
83North, the international venture capital firm with operations in Europe and Israel, has appointed David Buttress as a general partner.
Buttress will be based at the firm’s London office and will work alongside 83North’s five existing general partners.
Until February 2017 Buttress was the chief executive officer of Just Eat, a marketplace for online food delivery. He started the UK arm of the company in 2006 and more recently as CEO led the business through its rapid global growth to one of the biggest technology IPOs in Europe for a decade. The company debuted on the London Stock Exchange
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.
A record high of 251 fundraising and marketing professionals were hired by alternative asset management firms in the first quarter of 2017, according to data from the Context Jensen Partners’ Q1 2017 newsletter.
Context Jensen Partners (CJP) is a global corporate advisory and executive search firm that recruits capital raising talent for alternative investment managers.
“There is perhaps no better evidence that the industry has come of age than the number of senior professionals now working in a variety of distribution roles,” says Sasha Jensen (pictured), founder and CEO of Context Jensen Partners. “We view the record number of
Quantexa, a big data and analytics company backed by HSBC and Albion Ventures, has opened a new office in Brussels.
Further offices in Sydney and New York are due to open within the next 12 months.
Following on from last month's USD3.3 million fund raising, Quantexa's expansion reflects a growing customer base outside the UK. The Brussels office, with an initial staff of four, will put the company in closer proximity to its clients and forms part of its aggressive international growth plans.
Quantexa's clients include some of the world's largest financial institutions, many of which have extensive
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
Ipreo, a provider of workflow solutions and market intelligence to financial services and corporate professionals, has hired Stephen Grady as managing director, head of market structure and strategy.
Grady comes to Ipreo with more than 20 years of industry experience, most recently at Legal & General Investment Management, where he was head of LGIM's global trading team.
Prior to LGIM, Grady was global head of dealing and sales trading at Barclays Wealth. Previously, Grady was head of global dealing for Fortis Investments based in Paris.
He will be based in London.
"Having had the opportunity to
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 &
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