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CenterSquare Investment Management, an investment boutique of BNY Mellon, has appointed Scott Crowe to Chief Investment Strategist. In this newly created position, Crowe reports directly to Todd Briddell, CenterSquare's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer.
Crowe will focus on CenterSquare's listed real estate and infrastructure businesses and his duties will include the identification and development of new investment strategies to provide comprehensive real asset investment solutions to CenterSquare's client base. He will also work to enhance CenterSquare's already robust research and investment processes, and will work alongside Briddell to assist with investment risk oversight, providing additional insights into strategic
Proskauer has appointed Bruno Bertrand-Delfau (pictured) as a partner in the firm’s private investment fund’s practice based in London.
Bertrand-Delfau has extensive experience in private equity secondary transactions, notably advising Ardian (formerly AXA Private Equity). He has worked on many landmark transactions in the industry – both in Europe and the US – and advises institutional investors on their primary investments in private equity funds and other related transactions.
Nigel van Zyl, head of the European Private Investment Funds Group, says: “We are thrilled to have Bruno join our team. His experience strengthens our position in the private equity industry
Saurabh Bhat has joined Venus India Asset-Finance Private Limited as its CEO and a member of the board of directors.
Prior to joining Venus, Bhat was the CEO and Director at Ambit Finvest Limited, an NBFC which was part of the Ambit Group and which focused on structured lending in mid-market and SME space. At Ambit, Saur Bhat abh was instrumental in growing the asset book through several structured transactions, launching the debt syndication business for Ambit as well widening the liability profile for the NBFC through banking and other capital market limits.
Prior to joining Ambit, Bhat
Hawksford has appointed Moira Ashby as an associate director. Ashby (pictured) will be part of the team responsible for defining, building and growing Hawksford’s corporate business.
A tax specialist, she has had extensive exposure to a large variety of corporate clients including trading businesses, banks and life assurers. Over the past nine years she has been involved with complex engagements ranging from UK and Jersey tax compliance through to structuring advice, transactions, due diligence and FATCA/CRS advisory.
Ashby joins Hawksford from Ernst & Young in Jersey where she worked for four years in the financial services tax team. Prior
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has appointed Gregg Beechey (pictured) as a partner in the firm’s Asset Management Practice in London.
Beechey is a regulatory attorney who focuses on alternative investment funds and the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). He counsels a range of financial sector clients in connection with issues related to financial promotion, authorisation and ongoing compliance, structuring and marketing, regulatory capital, agreements with customers and service providers, anti-money laundering and Financial Conduct Authority regulation generally.
This development follows Fried Frank's announcement in May about the expansion of its Asset Management Practice to Europe
LIFE, the global diaspora organisation of Lebanese finance executives, has appointed Wissam Kairouz as the new chairman of its New York Committee.
Kairouz (pictured) is a managing director at Morgan Stanley's Leveraged & Acquisition Finance Group in New York, where he oversees the group's industry practices in Healthcare, Media and Financial Services. Before joining Morgan Stanley in 2009, Wissam was a managing director in the Global Leveraged Finance group at Merrill Lynch; before that he worked in fixed income investment management with BlackRock.
"I look forward to Wissam growing our thriving New York chapter both in size and in breadth
KKR has appointed Dominique Lafont (pictured), former President and Chief Executive Officer of Bolloré Africa Logistics, as a Senior Advisor to the firm, effective immediately.
Johannes Huth, Head of KKR Europe, Middle East and Africa, says: “Over the last few years, we have been building our Africa team which is led by Kayode Akinola. The appointment of Dominique Lafont as senior advisor to the firm is a perfect addition as we look forward to making further investments across the continent through our private equity, infrastructure and energy investment platforms.”
Kayode Akinola, Director of KKR and head of KKR’s efforts
Frazier Healthcare, a provider of growth capital to healthcare companies, announces that
Tadataka Yamada has re-joined Frazier Healthcare, a provider of growth capital to healthcare companies. He will serve as a Venture Partner on the Life Sciences team, focusing on creating companies as well as providing strategic guidance to existing portfolio companies.
He will also serve as a Senior Advisor to the Growth Buyout team, where he will provide advice on opportunities in pharmaceutical services and spin-outs from large healthcare companies, and sit on boards of portfolio companies such as PCI, a large pharmaceutical services company in the Frazier
Blackstone has named Liping Zhang as a Senior Managing Director and its Chairman for Greater China.
Based in Hong Kong, Zhang (pictured) will advise and provide guidance to firm management and its regional business units as the firm continues to expand its presence in the region.
Zhang has more than 30 years of financial industry, corporate management and government sector experience. He joins from Credit Suisse where he most recently served as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Greater China and Vice Chairman of Global Investment Banking.
“Liping Zhang is one of the preeminent figures in finance in China, and his
Jungle Ventures has appointed Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of the Indian Conglomerate, Tata Sons, as a Special Advisor.
Founded by Anurag Srivastava and Amit Anand, Jungle Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund, with a firm focus on helping build innovative technology led companies out of the Asia-Pacific. Jungle has already made investments in 30 leading Asian startups, including the likes of Zipdial (recently acquired by Twitter), LiveSpace, Tradegecko, CrayonData, Fastacash and travelmob (acquired by Nasdaq listed HomeAway). In his role as Special Advisor, Tata has formally committed to spend time with Jungle’s portfolio of companies to help them
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