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European mid-market buyout investor Equistone Partners Europe Limited has added Richard Briault-Hutter and Roman . Hegglin to its investment team.
Briault-Hutter, who begins his role as Investment Manager with immediate effect, joins Equistone’s London office from corporate advisory firm Duff & Phelps where he held the position of Director. Before this, he worked as an Associate Director at DC Advisory (formerly Close Brothers Corporate Finance), where he focused on the consumer and travel sectors within the firm’s M&A team. Briault-Hutter holds a BA in Economics from the University of Manchester.
Briault-Hutter’s appointment follows the recent appointment of Hegglin to
PwC Legal has appointed dual qualified banking partner Laetitia Costa as Head of the Banking and Finance Team in London.
Costa previously worked for Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in London, where she was a partner in that firm’s Leveraged Finance Group. She will be responsible for driving further development of the PwC Legal banking and finance offering and overseeing its continued growth. Costa has over 15 years' experiences in leveraged finance, real estate and debt restructuring transactions advising arrangers, funds, private equity firms and corporations.
She advises on all type of senior and subordinated financings for domestic
Bedell Trust has announced the establishment of an operation in Cayman to further extend its international presence.
Bedell Trust, which has a network of offices in key locations and an acknowledged reputation in corporate, trust, fund administration, international finance, employee benefits, private wealth management and bespoke family office, will provide a comprehensive range of trust and corporate services to clients from its Cayman operation.
Grant Barbour, a Director of Bedell Trust Cayman Limited, who will head up the Cayman business, commented:
‘The Cayman Islands are one of the leading Caribbean jurisdictions for locating investment structures and is popular with many
Ipes Group, a provider of outsourced services to Private Equity in Europe, has appointed Jim Faulds as Chairman.
Faulds is an experienced Non Executive Director and Chairman. He spent his executive career in advertising, founding Faulds Advertising, and growing it to become Scotland's largest advertising agency in 2002, when he exited from the business. Since then, Faulds has served as Chairman and Non Executive Director on the boards of a number of listed and private equity backed companies including Wood Mackenzie and Giles Insurance Brokers. He currently chairs Change Recruitment and Jumpstart.
Faulds succeeds Pernille Fabricius, who has been Chair
Tullett Prebon Alternative Investments (TPAI), the alternative investments arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, has appointed Alastair Sword as its global head.
The TPAI team of ten focuses on the placement of illiquid alternative assets. Since its formation in 2009 it has developed significant experience in LP to LP fund transfers, managed auction processes, as well as direct asset divestments across the hedge fund, private equity and real estate space.
Prior to taking up his position with TPAI, Sword was Head of Asian Sales at Roubini Global Economics having previously been a Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Independent investment banking firm Freitag & Co is expanding its advisory board with the addition of Robert Steven Miller, Dr Stefan Schmittmann and Matthias Wissmann, effective 1 June.
Professor Dr Hans-Jörg Bullinger, Chairman of the advisory board, says: ”The experience and calibres of our new board members are a perfect match with the competence and positioning of Freitag & Co. We look forward to working with them.“
As CEO or Chairman Miller has restructured AIG, Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler Corporation (Vice Chairman), Delphi, Federal Mogul, Hawker Beechcraft or United Airlines (Director). Currently, he is CEO of IAC, Luxembourg. Miller is a
Kirkland & Ellis International has appointed Stuart Boyd as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice based in London. Boyd focuses his practice on private equity.
“Stuart has built a reputation as one of the leading private equity lawyers in London,” says Jeffrey C Hammes, Chairman of Kirkland’s Global Management Executive Committee. “He is a dynamic and talented lawyer and a perfect fit for the practice as we further build out our European transactional offering to clients. We look forward to welcoming him to the Firm.”
Boyd will join Kirkland from the London office of Linklaters, where he advised private
Guggenheim KBBO Partners, a global financial services firm headquartered in Dubai, has hired Mohammad Barraj as a Managing Director of Investment Banking.
"Guggenheim KBBO is pleased to welcome Mohammad, who has established a reputation for providing superior client service and counsel over the last 10 years," says Hani Buttikhi, Senior Executive Officer at Guggenheim KBBO Partners. "We believe our clients will benefit from Mohammad's unique blend of industry knowledge and execution capabilities. As the Guggenheim KBBO platform grows, we will continue to develop our differentiated offering for clients based on our thought leadership and depth of relationships in the region."
Investment advisory and placement firm for hedge and private equity funds Aqueduct Capital Group, has appointed Dr Pawan Chaturvedi as head of investments.
Chaturvedi joins Aqueduct from the UCLA Investment Company, where he was a senior investment director focused on all aspects of portfolio management and the private markets portfolio. Prior to UCLA, he was a partner at private markets advisor Altius Associates and a member of their executive management committee. His new role at Aqueduct will be working in collaboration with partners Tom Roupe, Frank Edwards and Steve Lessing.
Roupe, co-founder of Aqueduct, says: “Pawan is an extremely talented
BlackRock has named Mark Wiseman as incoming Senior Managing Director and a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee (GEC).
Wiseman will become Head of BlackRock’s Global Active Equity business and will become Chairman of the BlackRock Global Investment Committee, the investment sub-committee of the GEC. He will also help support BlackRock Alternative Investors. Wiseman will report to Robert S Kapito, President of BlackRock, and will join the firm in early September.
Wiseman currently serves as President & Chief Executive Officer of CPP Investment Board, which manages approximately CAD280 billion on behalf of the Canada Pension Plan and its 19
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