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Dentons has recruited three partners to work in its private equity and corporate/M&A practices in Europe.
They are Christopher Rose (CEE/UK), Alessandro Dubini (Italy) and Simon Vogel (Germany).
Rose joins as head of Dentons’ Europe venture technology group, splitting his time between Moscow, London and Warsaw. He joins from Squire Patton Boggs, where he was head of the emerging markets private equity group.
Rose specialises in cross-border private equity and venture capital investments and exits, as well as M&A and joint ventures. He has advised on over 200 transactions on behalf of leading private equity and venture capital investors. He
AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets (AXA IM – Real Assets) has appointed Steve McCarthy as the new Head of North America, and Aaron Kutner as US Director of Acquisitions, effective immediately.
Olivier Thoral, current Head of North America, will return to AXA IM – Real Assets’ headquarters in Paris where he will assume new responsibilities.
In his new role as Head of North America, McCarthy, who for the last three years has been AXA IM – Real Assets’ US Head of Asset Management & Transactions, is now responsible for defining, recommending and executing all aspects of the business’
Law firm Goodwin has expanded its private equity and private investment funds practices with the appointment of six new partners, 15 associates and five trainees in the London office, all of whom join from the London office of King & Wood Mallesons (KWM).
The group comprises the bulk of the former SJ Berwin investment funds team and includes Michael Halford, Ed Hall, Laura Charkin, Shawn D’Aguiar, Patrick Deasy, and Ajay Pathak. They join Goodwin as partners.
“A fully built-out, integrated private investment funds offering is instrumental to the continued growth of Goodwin’s international private equity practice,” says David Evans,
Downing has appointed Richard Lewis as an investment director focusing on its growth capital portfolio.
He joins from Radius Equity, where he headed up the investment team which raised money from high net worth investors on a deal by deal basis.
Prior to this Lewis spent nine years working in the principal investment arm of Mitsui & Co where he completed a number of growth capital investments in the UK, US and Israel.
Kostas Manolis, partner, says: “We are delighted to welcome Richard into the Downing team. In Richard’s most recent role he was focussed on making investments
New York law firm Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen has appointed Jared R Gianatasio, Jason W Soncini, and Christopher M Terry as partner at the firm.
"Jared, Jason and Chris each have a proven track record of excellence and a commitment to exceptional client service,” says managing partner Andrew Chonoles (pictured). “They have shown a great ability to collaborate with their colleagues and to advise clients on complex legal issues to help them achieve their goals. We are honoured to call them partners, and look forward to their future successes.”
Gianatasio has extensive experience representing market participants in the
Noerr has promoted six of its lawyers to partners, as 1 January.
Fabian Badtke, Sophia Habbe, Michael Hawkins, Alexander Israel, Patrick Mückl and Nikolai Warneke will reinforce the partnership in their role as equity partners.
Tom Billing, Helge Heinrich and Alexandru Ene (Bucharest office) will work as senior counsel and national partners (salaried partners) in the future.
The firm appointed a further 10 lawyers as associated partners and four as counsel.
“We are pleased to welcome six more lawyers into our team of partners. They have convinced us with their excellent work and therefore stand for Noerr’s
Infrastructure and private equity investment manager Foresight Group has promoted Minal Patel, Ricardo Pineiro and Matt Smith to partner as of 1 January 2017.
The promotions follow continued expansion in the group during 2016.
Staff numbers increased by 21 per cent to more than 150 as Foresight opened two new offices during the year, while assets under management increased by 28 per cent to GBP2.3 billion.
Foresight opened a new office in Sydney, Australia to support the deployment of the AUD100 million Australian Bioenergy Fund and to explore opportunities in the Solar sector. In the UK the deployment
Invest Europe has appointed Marc Nahum as director of membership, a new role created to deepen engagement with the private equity association’s 650 members and connect with fund managers and investors across Europe.
Nahum brings over 15 years of experience in private equity fundraising and investor relations, having previously worked for Actis, DB Private Equity, The Carlyle Group and Credit Suisse.
“Invest Europe provides an invaluable range of services for our members and this new senior role will deepen our engagement with fund managers and investors across the continent,” says Invest Europe chief executive Michael Collins. “Marc’s significant industry
Scott Graves has joined Ares Management as a partner in the firm’s private equity group based in Los Angeles.
Graves will lead the Ares Special Situations Funds platform as portfolio manager and head of distressed.
His primary responsibilities will include overseeing investments within the special situations strategy and expanding Ares’ distressed capabilities across the firm. Additionally, Graves will serve as a member of the Ares’ Special Situations and ACOF Investment Committees.
“We have had the pleasure of knowing Scott professionally and personally for the better part of 20 years. Scott has exceptional experience in investing, leading teams and
Alternative Investments Forum (AIF) has appointed veteran institutional investor Melissa Waller as president of its newly formed AIF Institute.
The AIF Institute is the branch of AIF dedicated to educating institutional asset owners about the use of alternative investments such as private equity, private credit, hedge funds, real estate and real assets to achieve their portfolio objectives.
Waller (pictured) joins AIF following her service as deputy treasurer and chief of staff for the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer, where she oversaw strategic planning, operations, policy implementation and a staff of more than 400 employees. The North Carolina Retirement Systems,
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