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Lea Lazaric Calvert has agreed to join Evercore’s Private Capital Advisory business (PCA) as a Managing Director. Lazaric Calvert will be based in London where she will focus on advising leading financial institutional investors and fund sponsors on secondary transactions.
Lazaric Calvert, who will join Evercore in July, was most recently an Executive Director at UBS where she was a member of the Private Funds Group, responsible for the coverage of a number of institutional investors in countries including the UK, Germany and Switzerland. Lazaric Calvert has extensive fund placement experience, having advised a number of leading private equity general
Woodbridge International has opened a new office in Bologna, Italy. Woodbridge’s Italian office will serve sellers and buyers of middle market companies based in Italy. Leading the team in Bologna are three accomplished Senior M&A Advisors.
Roberto Dunatov is a Chartered Accountant and Registered Auditor whose previous positions include executive roles in auditing and corporate finance for PriceWaterhouse’s branches in several Italian cities. His responsibilities encompassed Practice Development, M&A, Technical Matters, Eastern Europe and Financial Institutions.
Mario Maestroni has worked with a number of high-tech companies in Italy, USA, Yugoslavia and the Far East. Mario has held executive positions at
Law firm Paul Hastings has appointed investment funds partner Duncan Woollard as a partner in the Corporate practice in the firm's London office. Woollard will be joining the firm from King & Wood Mallesons.
Woollard advises on a wide range of private equity and fund structuring matters. He specialises in the raising of investment funds in the private equity sector as well as in venture capital, infrastructure, direct lending, real estate, mezzanine lending and distressed debt. His practice encompasses advice to general partners, institutional investors and investment advisers on all aspects of complex fund-raisings, including on fund structuring, fund management businesses,
Mark Mifsud, Kate Downey and Alexandra Conroy are to join Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson as partners in the Asset Management Practice, based in the firm’s London office.
Mifsud, Downey and Conroy advise fund sponsors and financial institutions across a broad range of asset classes, including private equity, venture and growth, infrastructure, credit and real estate. They also provide advice on carried interest, co-investment and other incentive arrangements.
"We are pleased to welcome Mark, Kate and Alex to Fried Frank's London office, where they will be instrumental in extending our premiere funds practice in the US to Europe and
LetterOne Technology, a strategic long-term investor in international technology markets, has strengthened its advisory board with the appointment of Jeremie Berrebi and Gennady Gazin.
Gazin currently serves as Vice-Chairman of the Board at Studio Moderna, a multi-channel and direct-to-consumer retailer in Central and Eastern Europe. From 2007 to 2012 he was CEO of EastOne, an international investment advisory group. Prior to joining EastOne, Gazin worked in McKinsey and Company’s telecommunications practice and served as the Senior Partner responsible for the firm’s CIS practice. Gennady is a member of the Supervisory Board of VimpelCom Ltd and chairman of the board of
Barclays has appointed Steve Rickards as head of offshore funds. He will lead the creation and implementation of the bank’s offshore funds strategy and report directly to Paul Savery, managing director of personal and corporate banking in the Channel Islands.
“Steve has 30 years’ experience with Barclays in corporate banking and international finance centres,” says Savery.
For the last four years Rickards has been heading up the Guernsey Funds team providing debt solutions for private equity and working with locally based fund administrators.
Savery says: “Barclays’ funds segment has seen some terrific cross functional success over the past year
The Quoted Companies Alliance, an independent membership organisation for small to mid-size quoted companies, has appointed Judith MacKenzie to its Board.
MacKenzie is a Partner of Downing LLP and is responsible for the Public Equity Division which predominantly focuses on Micro-Cap investments of under GBP150 million market capitalisation. In this role she is known for her selective approach, researching companies thoroughly before investing and holding them for long periods.
Prior to joining Downing in October 2009, MacKenzie was a partner at Acuity Capital, managing AIM-quoted VCT and IHT investments and a small-cap activist fund. Previously Ju MacKenzie dith was for
Sidley Austin has appointed Charlie Wilson as a partner in the firm’s M&A and private equity practices based in Singapore.
Wilson has practiced law in Asia for 17 years and regularly advises clients on transactions throughout Southeast Asia. For example, Wilson has acted as international counsel for Indonesia’s national oil company in its proposed acquisition of a US-based oil company’s Venezuelan oil assets. He has also advised a number of sovereign wealth and global private equity funds in connection with their investments and dispositions in Southeast Asia.
“Charlie’s experience handling prominent M&A deals in Southeast Asia makes him a strong
Longitude Capital, a private investment firm that focuses on venture growth investments in drug development and medical technology, has promoted Sandip K Agarwala to Managing Director.
Agarwala joined Longitude in 2013 and focuses on structured investments in both biotechnology and medical device companies. He was responsible for the creation of the firm's royalty investment vehicle, CrownWheel Partners, and its associated infrastructure. Agarwala led the firm's investments in multiple royalty transactions, assembling a diversified portfolio of healthcare revenue interests. Looking forward, he will continue to lead Longitude's royalty investment strategy.
"Sandip has contributed significantly to our investment platform at Longitude Capital,"
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has appointed Simon Adcock as a Portfolio Director.
Adcock, an ACA qualified accountant, has almost 20 years of Big 4 advisory experience, latterly as partner and regional head of Deloitte’s Corporate Advisory business, an area he helped to establish in 2005 to support privately owned and private equity-backed mid-market companies going through change, restructuring or refinancing.
He began his career at KPMG in Birmingham before joining Deloitte in 2004, making partner in 2010. He also spent two years in Australia, establishing the Deloitte Corporate Advisory business there.
Adcock will provide a national resource
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