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Lazard has appointed Christopher Mulshine as a managing director in its private capital advisory group, effective immediately. He is based in New York.
“Chris brings more than 15 years of experience as a trusted advisor to institutional investors and fund managers,” says William Riddle, managing director and head of Lazard’s private capital advisory group. “His insight and relationships will further bolster our expertise in credit and debt strategies as we increase our capabilities in this area to meet client demand.”
Mulshine joins from Credit Suisse Securities, where was head of capital services in the Americas. From 2005 to 2008
Maples Fund Services has appointed James Perry as head of institutional investor solutions, effective immediately.
In this role, Perry will be responsible for further shaping the firm’s offerings and enhancing its service delivery to institutional investors.
Perry brings more than 20 years of investment management experience, the past 10 serving in senior investment roles overseeing portfolios of public assets in California and Texas.
Previously he served as chief investment officer of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System.
The Citco Group of Companies has launched Citco Capital Solutions, a capital advisory service that will focus on arranging debt and equity capital for sponsors and investors in alternative investment vehicles.
Citco Capital Solutions is led by managing director Michael Peterson (pictured), and Shiraz Allidina has also joined the firm as a director.
Leveraging Citco’s experience and broad relationships across the global alternative investment space, Citco Capital Solutions provides a full suite of capital advisory services, including arrangement of subscription lines, project finance and warehouse lines, as well as joint-venture, preferred and co-invest equity.
Peterson says: “Citco has
Business Growth Fund (BGF), the UK’s most active investor of growth capital, has appointed Diana Noble to the board of the company.
Noble has extensive background in private equity, venture capital and international development and is currently chief executive of CDC, the UK’s development finance institution managing net assets of GBP3.4 billion.
Established in 1948, CDC provides investment capital to fund growth in ambitious and promising businesses throughout Africa and South Asia.
Noble was a partner at Schroder Ventures (now Permira) for 12 years, founder CEO of e-Ventures and founder managing director of Reed Elsevier Ventures.
She
Livingstone, the international mid-market M&A and debt advisory firm, has promoted Neil Smith to director and Harsha Wickremasinghe and Lewis Gray to associate.
Smith focuses on the debt advisory and special situations sector. He advises clients on a range of debt-related assignments, including new capital raises, refinancing, dividend recapitalisations and restricting. He joined Livingstone in 2013.
Wickremasinghe has dedicated his time to Livingstone’s consumer sector efforts since joining in 2007, for which he also leads the deal origination programme. Wickremasinghe has recently been involved in a number of transactions including Fleetway Travel, Destinology and Iglu.com.
Gray joined Livingstone
Jersey’s proactive approach to developing new funds legislation together with its commitment to enhancing links with overseas markets will ensure its funds industry can look forward to a positive future, according to Mike Byrne (pictured), the new Chairman of the Jersey Funds Association (JFA).
Elected into the position of Chairman at the recent AGM (1 July) of the trade association that represents Jersey’s funds industry, Byrne, a partner at PwC Channel Islands, is joined by Tim Morgan, partner at Mourant Ozannes, who will serve a second term as Vice Chair.
Also on the updated committee are Nick Taylor (Ashburton Investments) who remains as
Woodbridge International, a global mergers and acquisitions firm, has appointed M&A professional Georges Hazan to its team of investment bankers.
Hazan will be heading up Woodbridge’s office in Paris, France to serve clients throughout France as well as in other French-speaking countries.
Prior to joining Woodbridge, Hazan was, respectively, founder, CEO and managing director of various strategic consulting firms that provided a range of corporate financial advisory services to international clients including family businesses, multinational corporations, start-ups, private equity and various non-profits.
Hazan has special expertise in advanced technologies and innovation services (IT, health, NBIC). He serves in
Sanne Group, a provider of outsourced corporate, fund and private client administration, reporting and fiduciary services, has appointed Andrew Shrimpton as compliance director with immediate effect.
In this role, Shrimpton will be based in Sanne’s London office and will be responsible for ensuring the activities undertaken by Sanne’s UK authorised entities are in accordance with the regulatory and statutory requirements and in accordance with relevant procedures.
Shrimpton brings a deep breadth of expertise and experience to Sanne, having acted as a respected compliance adviser to the asset management industry over the course of a 30 year career.
His
Evercore is to transfer the control of its Mexican private equity business Evercore Mexico Capital Partners (EMCP) to a new entity formed by the existing principals of the business.
Under the plan, the EMCP team, led by Alfredo Castellanos, has formed a new entity, Glisco Partners, which will assume all responsibility for management of the existing EMCP funds, which currently manage USD266 million of invested capital.
Dr Pedro Aspe, the chairman of Evercore Partners Mexico, will continue to serve on the investment committee for the EMCP funds.
As consideration for the transfer of ownership, Evercore will receive a
CoInvestor, a new alternative assets platform for sophisticated private investors, has made a wave of senior appointments to strengthen its board and advisory board, and help guide the business through its early stage growth as it seeks to transform the alternative asset investment landscape in the UK.
Launched in December 2015, CoInvestor’s online platform enables private investors to build their own portfolio of direct investments by co-investing alongside experienced fund managers on a deal by deal basis.
The platform has already attracted top fund managers including Oxford Capital and MMC Ventures, and has just signed a new partnership with
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