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Cowen Group has appointed Craig E Zaph as head of debt capital markets in the company’s investment banking team.
Zaph is based in New York and reports to Kevin Raidy, head of investment banking.
“Craig Zaph rounds out a series of important investment banking hires in recent months and brings momentum to Cowen’s debt capital markets (DCM) practice,” says Raidy. “Providing clients with a full range of innovative debt financing solutions has been a cornerstone of our capital markets franchise. Craig’s leadership will further this effort. Craig has a significant amount of experience in originating and structuring debt products,
21 Centrale Partners has promoted Fabrice Voituron and Antoine Vigneron to partner.
Gérard Pluvinet, founding managing partner of 21 Centrale Partners, says: “We are eager to offer fulfilling careers, allowing the best of our teams to fully express their talent. Fabrice and Antoine have gained much experience at
Voituron joined 21 in 2012 as principal. He is involved in following 21’s participations in Skill&You, DGF and Impact.
Prior to joining 21, he spent 11 years at Omnes Capital as a principal in LBO and development covering investments and exits, fundraising and transversal topics for the management company.
MUFG Investor Services has appointed Kate Stallard as executive director, business development – EMEA.
She will be responsible for driving forward MUFG Investor Services’ asset servicing solutions by developing strategic relationships with private equity, real estate and infrastructure firms.
Stallard will support new and existing clients with a series of solutions including fund administration, asset financing, custody, depositary, trustee, FX, banking and jurisdictional regulatory services.
Formerly the founder of financial services consultancy IRIS Partners, Stallard brings 20 years of senior investment services experience to her new role.
Prior to founding IRIS Partners, she was head of private
NewAlpha Asset Management, a specialist in management company incubation and private equity, has appointed Vladimir de Maack (pictured) as international investor relationship manager based in Paris.
De Maack has 13 years of experience in asset management, acquired within the Societe Generale Group.
As head of sales development at Lyxor AM in Luxembourg and Belgium since 2011, de Maack developed the Lyxor AM offer regarding alternative management and solutions dedicated to institutional clients. He implemented several solutions to optimise own accounts within the regulatory frameworks of Basel III and Solvency II.
De Maack started his career in 2003 and
Bill Fickling has been named portfolio manager for TCA’s Opportunities Fund I, a small-cap, private equity fund that invests in underserved growth stage companies.
In this role, his focus will be on overseeing portfolio investments and securing returns from equity positions where TCA has capital invested.
“Bill has been a trusted advisor and one of our operating partners for several years,” says TCA founding partner and CEO Bob Press. “When the decision was made to extend our business model and start a private equity fund, we knew his instincts and expertise made him the perfect choice to manage the
Seyfarth Shaw has added partners John D Shire and William B Eck to the firm’s corporate department in Washington, DC.
Shire arrives from the Washington, DC office of Fox Rothschild, while Eck joins from the Washington, DC office of Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, PC, a prominent California-based health law boutique firm.
“John and Bill are exceptional corporate lawyers. 2016 has been a year of growth for our transactional and regulatory practices, especially in the healthcare, M&A and energy areas,” says Paul Mattingly, chair of Seyfarth’s corporate department.
“They are both strong gifted team members who augment our existing
Denver-based private equity firm Revelstoke Capital Partners has expanded its team with two new operating partners – Steve Geringer, chairman of AmSurg Corp, and Greg Steil, founder of ATI Physical Therapy.
Geringer and Steil will also join the board of directors of Fast Pace Urgent Care, Revelstoke’s newest portfolio company.
“I’ve worked closely with Steve and Greg for many years. Their combined knowledge in clinic-based healthcare operations and healthcare services is unmatched,” says Simon Bachleda, managing partner and co-founder of Revelstoke, and chairman of the board of Fast Pace. “Both are successful entrepreneurs, experienced CEOs and invaluable board members.
Silverfleet Capital portfolio company Sigma Components has appointed Mark Rollins and Ed Riley as non-executive chairman and chief financial officer respectively.
Based in Hinckley, Leicestershire, Sigma is a precision engineering components manufacturer for the commercial aerospace sector.
The new appointments complete Sigma’s board of directors, which has been strengthened since Silverfleet’s acquisition to support the company’s growth plans.
Rollins has an extensive career in the manufacturing and aerospace sectors. He is a former CEO and financial director of Senior Plc, the engineering and manufacturing group, where he played an instrumental role in transforming the business.
Riley also brings
Artivest, a tech-driven investment platform providing access to alternative investments, has appointed Jon Feigelson as general counsel and chief compliance officer.
Feigelson joins from TIAA, where he most recently served as senior managing director, general counsel, head of regulatory affairs, and director of corporate governance.
At Artivest, Feigelson will be responsible for providing strategic, regulatory, and transactional legal counsel across the firm's alternative investment offerings.
Feigelson brings over 20 years of legal, compliance, and governance experience in the financial services industry to Artivest. Prior to TIAA, Feigelson served as managing director and general counsel for ABN AMBRO Bank's
Alternative investment firm HIG Capital has appointed Appu Mundassery as the company’s head of direct lending in Europe.
Based in London, Mundassery joined HIG in 2009 as a managing director.
With affiliates in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, HIG’s European direct lending team manages a portfolio of directly originated par loans to small and mid-size companies with EBITDA up to EUR25 million.
John Bolduc, HIG executive managing director who oversees HIG’s global credit platform, says: “Appu has done a terrific job helping us develop our direct lending business in Europe and under his leadership, I am
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