Middle market private equity firm Peak Rock Capital has appointed Carsten Beck as a Principal in its Brussels, Belgium office. In this role, Beck will oversee the firm’s business development group in Europe, helping to manage relationships and oversee the firm’s transaction sourcing efforts in the region.  Peak Rock has experienced tremendous growth since closing its inaugural fund in 2013. The Firm has since completed ten platform acquisitions and has hired twenty-five investment professionals in North America and Europe. “We are extremely proud of the outstanding team of professionals that we have built," says Anthony DiSimone, Chief Executive Officer of Peak Rock. "We are

Palamon Capital Partners has elected Alexandre (Ali) Rahmatollahi to the Partnership. Rahmatollahi joins Palamon from Morgan Stanley where he spent nearly eight years in its Investment Banking division, most recently as an Executive Director with responsibility for Financial Sponsor coverage.  Prior to that he was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company in its General Strategy Consulting and Private Equity Practices.  A Swiss-Persian national, Ali graduated from Boston University as a NCAA First Division All-American Athlete with a degree in Business Administration.  He later received an MBA from Columbia University.   Louis Elson, Managing Partner of Palamon Capital Partners, says:

Ipes, a provider of outsourced services to Private Equity in Europe, has made two senior appointments to help support the continued growth of the business. Andy Pitter has been appointed as Head of Ipes in Jersey, while Nigel Strachan, who was previously Managing Director of Ipes in Jersey, becomes Group Head of Business Development.   Pitter joins Ipes from Kleinwort Benson where he worked for more than 30 years, 20 of those as a Director. He has worked with a variety of private equity, real estate and debt fund clients.   Strachan will continue to be based in Jersey but

Dentons, the global law firm, has added Jennifer R Williams as a partner in the firm's Corporate group. Williams joins as one of the leaders of a new program focused on providing a comprehensive package of legal services to private equity portfolio companies and similar companies.  This new and unique service is designed to provide cost savings as well as risk management tools for clients at both the portfolio company and private equity firm levels. Although the service is primarily focused on private equity clients, it has applications in other businesses.    The new program will draw upon the talents of

Perella Weinberg Partners has appointed Bruce H Mendelsohn as a Partner in the firm’s Advisory business. Based in New York, Mendelsohn will lead the Firm’s restructuring practice, working closely with Partner Kevin Cofsky and the other members of the restructuring team. Mendelsohn has more than 25 years of restructuring experience. He was most recently at Goldman Sachs where he was Head of the Americas Restructuring Group and part of the Leveraged Finance Team. During his 17 year career at Goldman Sachs, he established an impressive track record running Goldman’s restructuring advisory and rescue financing business where, since 2008, he focused

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced that corporate and TMT partner Dr Bernd Meyer-Witting has joined law firm Paul Hastings’ Frankfurt office as a partner as of 1 January 2016. Meyer-Witting joins from Clifford Chance, where he was a corporate partner and head of the German TMT practice.   Meyer-Witting advises domestic and foreign corporate clients from a wide variety of sectors (particularly Telecommunications, Media & Technology, Renewable Energy and Industrials) on a broad range of legal issues, in particular on M&A, joint ventures and commercial contracts.

“Bernd will be a great asset to the Frankfurt office,

Private equity firm TA Associates has promoted nine investment staff members in the firm’s Boston, Hong Kong, London, Menlo Park and Mumbai offices, effective 1 January, 2016. “We are pleased to recognise the many accomplishments of these individuals, who demonstrate the breadth of talent of our global investment staff,” says Brian J Conway, Chairman and a Managing Director at TA Associates. “The promotions are well-earned, as each of these professionals has made significant contributions to the firm, our investors and our portfolio companies during their careers with TA.”   William D Christ has been promoted to Managing Director from Director.

Tax and private equity lawyer Olga Loy has rejoined Jenner & Block as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office.  Loy, who joins the firm's tax and private equity practices, brings more than 15 years of experience in representing private equity funds in structuring and negotiating M&A deals and handling fund formation matters.   Loy plans and structures other complex business transactions, including corporate mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalisations and venture capital investments.  She also advises investment advisers, hedge funds, registered investment companies and broker-dealers across a broad range of investment management, securities and general corporate matters.  In addition,

Encore Consumer Capital has promoted Daniel Gross and Kisen Nathu to Director. The pair both joined Encore as Associates. Gross joined Encore in 2008 and was instrumental in exited Encore investments PhillySwirl and Zuke's. He is a board director of current Encore investments Atlantic Aqua Farms, Full Sail Brewing Company, ThunderWorks and Van Law Food Products, Inc. His prior work experience includes LEK Consulting. He received his BA from Northwestern University and MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. 
Nathu joined Encore in 2007 and played important roles throughout the life-cycle of exited Encore investments Aidells, FreshKO, Isopure