Victory Park Capital (VPC), an asset management firm focused on middle market debt and equity investments, has appointed Karrie Truglia as vice president in New York City to further develop the firm’s debt capital markets activity. VPC has also promoted three investment professionals to vice president and hired four new associates and two operations personnel in its Chicago office. Additionally, VPC is expanding its team in Los Angeles with a relocation of Vice President Geoff Mikelsons, who will join Partner Jason Brown.   Truglia joins VPC with more than 15 years of experience in global and domestic financial services organisations. Previously,

HIG Capital has promoted Andrew Scotland (pictured) to Managing Director of Bayside Capital, the distressed debt and special situations affiliate of HIG Scotland joined HIG Capital in 2013 as a Principal. He is based in HIG’s London office and has over 17 years of investment banking and distressed investment experience across a variety of industries. Prior to joining HIG Capital, Scotland was a Managing Director in Royal Bank of Scotland’s Special Situations Group for more than six years, where he was the senior analyst focused on European distressed investments. Before RBS, Andrew was a Director in the Equity Research department

The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association EVCA today announces that it has changed its name to ‘Invest Europe – The Voice of Private Capital’.  Invest Europe is the voice of investors in privately-held companies in Europe. From its roots representing European venture capital, Invest Europe has grown to encompass private equity and infrastructure, as well as long-term investors such as pension funds and insurance companies that provide capital for investment, on behalf of millions of beneficiaries across the world.    Since 2007, private equity and venture capital firms have invested EUR350 billion in around 28,000 European companies, which

SSA & Company (SSA) has hired Paul de Janosi (pictured) and Jeff Krajacic to help lead its Private Equity practice. The appointments come amid increasing demand from private equity firms for on-the-ground management consulting expertise. De Janosi and Krajacic join Mark Habner, SSA's Senior Managing Director, who has built the firm's private equity practice over the last five years.   De Janosi joins SSA as a Senior Advisor, after a successful tenure at Celerant, where he established and ran the firm's private equity practice as President and Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions and private equity. Krajacic, who joins SSA

Baird, an employee-owned, international financial services firm, has appointed Terry Huffine (pictured) as a Managing Director in the firm’s Global Consumer Investment Banking group in London. With extensive transaction experience across several different Consumer sector verticals, Huffine will further expand Baird’s Global Consumer Investment Banking coverage in Europe and strengthen its comprehensive, capital markets industry platform.   Huffine was most recently a Managing Director and Head of Consumer at DC Advisory where he established and built out its fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) investment banking business. Prior to DC Advisory, he was a senior banker at ABN AMRO/Royal Bank of Scotland