Vinson & Elkins (V&E) has promoted 10 lawyers to the firm’s partnership, effective 1 January, 2016. The new partners are: Mike Heidler and Stephen Stout in Austin; Shaun Rogers and Danny Tobey in Dallas; Stephen Jacobson, Julian Seiguer, David Wall and Mingda Zhao in Houston; Dan Komarek in New York; and Jessica Mussallem in San Francisco. "These lawyers have each demonstrated a strong commitment to V&E and our clients and we are excited to welcome them to the partnership," says V&E chairman Mark Kelly. "We are confident they will continue to make significant contributions not only to their individual practice

Michiel Kotting is to private equity firm Northzone as a General Partner. Kotting has spent the last five years at Accel in London. As a Partner focusing on fintech, security, infrastructure and marketplace businesses, he sits on the board of Accel’s investments in Catawiki, Fiverr, Vinted, Packlink and KNC. He was also closely involved in their investments in Spotify, Avito, Funding Circle, Calastone and Aorato.   Kotting got his start in tech when founding Digital Jones, an artificial intelligence company, which he sold to Shopping.com, where he joined the management team. His experience further adds to the strong entrepreneurial profile

Private equity firm Spire Capital Partners has promoted Kerri McNicholas to Vice President following what the firm describes as ‘two and a half years of exceptional contributions to the Spire investment team’.  Most notably, McNicholas was a critical deal team member that was relied upon heavily as new investments were made out of Spire's current investment fund. In addition to assisting in the initial acquisitions of Lighthouse eDiscovery, Surgent Professional Education and Performance Assessment Network, McNicholas continues to work closely with portfolio company management teams to evaluate strategic acquisitions and grow the businesses.   In addition, Karl Rodger recently joined

Delphinus Medical Technologies has added two new senior-level advisors to its Board of Directors. With more than 35 years of combined experience with emerging healthcare innovators, John Neis and Michael Fulton, MD, will help guide the company as it develops commercialisation plans for SoftVue, the firm’s whole breast ultrasound system that allows physicians to image the entire breast for diagnostic imaging purposes.   The appointments cap off Delphinus’ Series C venture round, which garnered more than USD39 million. This unprecedented venture capital funding is the single largest amount ever raised for a healthcare imaging company in the Midwest, as well

Venture capital fund AXA Strategic Ventures (ASV) has added four new investments over the second half 2015 to its portfolio in the US. “Our world is becoming more transparent, digitally enabled and customer centric,” says ASV US’s General Partner, Manish Agarwal. “These developments are changing financial services and we are excited that our portfolio is helping shape this trend. Through these new companies, we want to capture innovation and invest in technologies that will tomorrow transform our industry.”   Bee is building the ‘bank of the future’ – a mobile-first, in-person bank for all Americans. Bee was launched in New York

Pamplona Capital Management has appointed Justin Perreault as a partner as it continues to build its US-based private equity presence. Perreault, who will be based in Boston, has over twenty years of information technology private investing and operating experience, and will be focussing on investing in the technology, media and telecom sectors. He joins the business from Commonwealth Capital Ventures, where he co-managed three growth and early stage technology funds with USD600 million of committed capital. Prior to starting at Commonwealth Capital Ventures in 1999, he also worked at Object Design Software, Inc, Harvard Private Equity Group and McKinsey &

Sam Tabar has been named Chief Operating Officer for FullCycle Energy Fund. As COO, he will be responsible for the company's fund management strategy. "I am excited and honoured to take on the role of COO at FullCycle Energy Fund. I look forward to partnering with our talented senior leadership team to deliver our mission of moving away from high cost, polluting fuels to lower cost and environmentally friendly fuels," says Tabar.   Tabar has spent much of his career overseeing budget strategy for financial institutions. He was Head of Capital Strategy for Merrill Lynch (Bank of America). In this

The Board of Gloo Networks, a technology company established to acquire and operate companies in the media sector, has appointed Arnaud de Puyfontaine, as Non-Executive Chairman of the Company, effective immediately. De Puyfontaine is Chief Executive of Vivendi, the French media group. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Schibsted, a Scandinavian media group.   Along with the other Directors, he will be responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of Gloo. His extensive experience of media (and especially digital media) will be key to the successful implementation of the Company’s strategy.   Rebecca Miskin, Gloo Chief Executive Officer