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Alternative credit investment manager THL Credit Advisors has appointed Kevin Burke, a former senior managing director at Antares Capital, as a senior adviser to the firm.
Burke will work closely with THL Credit's senior management advising on investments, capital markets and strategic matters.
"Kevin's extensive experience across both the broadly syndicated loan market and the middle market will be a great resource to our Direct Lending and Tradable Credit strategies," says Chris Flynn, co-CEO of THL Credit.
Sam Tillinghast, co-CEO of THL Credit, says: "Kevin was one of my very first business contacts almost 30 years ago
ZEDRA, a specialist in trust, corporate and fund services, has widened the scope of its client offering with the appointment of Bridget Barker as executive director funds and corporate.
Barker (pictured) will participate in key networking events, global panel discussions and spokesperson opportunities.
Barker joins ZEDRA from city law firm Macfarlanes with almost 36 years’ experience and is one of only three Senior Statesmen for private equity funds listed in the Chambers Legal Directory, 2017. Her experience in legal issues, particularly related to fund raising in the areas of private equity and real estate, is extensive.
Barker has
Corporate advisory firm Clearwater International has appointed David Weavers as a partner based in its Manchester office.
Weavers arrives at Clearwater with over 15 years’ experience in M&A having previously worked for Rothschild and Deloitte.
The appointment follows Clearwater International’s strongest year yet, having completed a record breaking 106 deals worth over EUR9 billion in 2016 – a deal value increase of over 120 per cent from 2015; average deal values also nearly doubled during the period.
Michael Reeves, CEO, Clearwater International, says: "We’re thrilled to be welcoming a new partner to the business and to be further strengthening
Needham & Company has added key research, sales and sales trading professionals in healthcare services research; Boston equity sales; corporate access origination and client strategy; event-driven, special situations and merger arbitrage sales; and sales trading.
Kevin Caliendo, managing director, recently joined the firm. He brings 20 years of Wall Street experience, primarily on the buy-side, analysing and investing in the healthcare industry. Caliendo spent the past two years at Deimos Asset Management as a portfolio manager. Prior to that, Caliendo was a healthcare portfolio manager at SAC Capital, FrontPoint Partners, and Clearbridge Advisors.
Patrick “Pat” Malloy, managing director, has
Ciphrex Corp, a software company in the emerging field of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, has appointed venture capitalist Alyse Killeen to its board of advisers.
Killeen, now managing partner at StillMark Co, an investment advisory and venture investment group, is an advocate of decentralised consensus network technologies that enable transactions in digital assets.
She is a recognised and sought-after adviser to start-ups in the cryptotech space, including Netki and Factom. She is a board director of BitGive – the first Bitcoin non-profit – and her prominence in blockchain-related venture funding was featured in a recent Forbes magazine article.
Perella Weinberg Partners has appointed David Azéma as a partner in the firm’s advisory business.
Azéma will lead the firm’s investment banking practice in France, providing strategic and financial advice to clients in the country. He will be based in London.
Azéma joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was chairman of global infrastructure and vice chairman of global corporate and investment banking for Europe since 2014.
From 2012 to 2014, Azéma oversaw the French government’s holdings in strategic companies, including inter alia EDF, Engie, Orange, Renault, Safran and Airbus, as head of Agence des participations
The Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE) has made two changes to its board of directors.
Stephen Lansdown (pictured) will step down from the board with effect from the annual general meeting in June to focus on his other business interests.
Isle of Man-based Anderson Whamond has joined the board with immediate effect.
The announcements come after an extraordinary general meeting where shareholders of the CISE approved changing the company name to The International Stock Exchange Group (TISEG). This is part of a wider rebrand of the exchange to The International Stock Exchange (TISE) with effect from 6 March
Boston Private, a provider of wealth management, trust and private banking services, has appointed Mark Shang as the west coast leader of its private partnership practice.
In this role, he will oversee a team of professionals dedicated to meeting the cash management, lending, wealth management and trust needs of private equity and venture capital firms and their executives.
“Mark is a talented leader who brings over two decades of financial services and private equity experience and expertise to our Private Partnership clients,” says Gerald Graves, executive managing director, Boston Private Wealth. “We’re excited to have him on board and
Boston-based growth equity firm Brook Venture Partners has promoted Brennan Mulcahey, Jonathan Green and Kyle Stanbro to partner.
They join partners and board members Fred Morris, Ned Williams and Walter Beinecke, and director of finance and operations Jenn Mosto, as members of the senior management team.
The firm has also promoted Ryan Wittman and Amit Nagdev to associate.
Morris says: “Brook has doubled its assets under management over the past five years while evolving its focus from earlier stage investments to control, growth equity investments in technology and technology-enabled service companies. These three upcoming partners and two associates
Cortland Capital Market Services, a Chicago-based global investment servicing company, and its wholly owned UK subsidiary, Cortland EMEA Limited, have launched a global asset-based lending (ABL) platform.
Cortland's ABL Servicing focuses on serving investment managers, commercial lenders and commercial finance companies throughout the US and Europe.
Cortland has appointed industry veteran Ellen Cook to lead ABL Servicing Operations.
"Asset-based lending is an area in which many of our existing and prospective customers would like to participate," says Joanna Anderson (pictured), head of Cortland's credit services group. "We have the systems, processes and expertise in place to provide clients a
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