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Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) has appointed Tracy Hogan as Chief Financial Officer.
In this role, Hogan will be responsible for managing the firm's financial, operational, and administrative activities. These activities include partnership accounting, financial reporting, tax and treasury, regulatory compliance, information systems, and human resources.
"We are incredibly excited to welcome Tracy to our team," says Todd Chaffee, General Partner at IVP. "Tracy's extensive finance and accounting experience in the private equity industry will strengthen our financial operations, and her in-depth regulatory and compliance experience will also be valuable to the firm.”
Prior to joining IVP, Hogan was the Chief
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has hired Mark Lucas and Daniel Oates as partners in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice, in the New York and London offices, respectively.
“Mark and Dan are fantastic additions to our team of lawyers, bringing impressive legal knowledge and business judgment to help navigate a range of M&A and private equity transactions,” says David Greenwald, chairman of Fried Frank. “Their experience advising some of the leading players in the market will enhance the value we deliver to clients.”
Lucas was previously a Vice President & Associate General Counsel in the Legal
James L Learner is to rejoin Kirkland & Ellis International as a partner in its Corporate Practice Group in the London office, effective 1 February 2015.
“Jim was instrumental to helping our London office grow from 14 lawyers to more than 115 lawyers during his 12 years there, and in institutionalizing many of our important client relationships,” says Jeffrey C. Hammes, Chairman of Kirkland’s Global Management Executive Committee. “We are thrilled to welcome our friend and colleague back to the Firm.”
Learner has extensive experience advising clients on complex transactions, principally representing private equity firms in their leveraged buyout and
Berkshire Partners has appointed Dave Bordeau, Marni Payne and Raleigh Shoemaker as Managing Directors effective 1 January, 2015.
They join the 19 current Managing Directors of Berkshire in managing the firm and its affiliated investment funds. Berkshire’s 22 Managing Directors have an average tenure of over 16 years with the firm.
Bordeau joined Berkshire Partners in 2006 and has significant experience with Berkshire’s consumer products, retail and business services companies. Prior to joining Berkshire, Bordeau worked in private equity and investment banking, holding positions with Ripplewood Holdings and Gleacher Partners. He received an AB from Princeton University and an MBA
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has promoted Matthew Pitman to its partnership with effect from 01 January 2015.
Pitman is based in the firm’s London office and is an investment funds specialist focusing on all classes of private funds.
His practice covers a wide range of transactional and investment work, including fund formation (for both liquid and illiquid assets), indirect investments, advising on investment management issues, joint ventures and managed accounts.
Simmons & Simmons’ Senior Partner Colin Passmore, says: ‘‘Matt’s promotion recognises his strong contribution to our award-winning asset management and investment funds practice and comes at
Independent accounting firm Weaver has held the official opening of the firm's newest office, located in the greater Los Angeles area.
The new Weaver office is at 1600 Rosecrans Ave, Bldg 7 in Manhattan Beach, California adjacent to several sound stages and movie studios on the secure MBS Media Campus.
Michael Hearne, CPA, has joined Weaver as a partner in tax and strategic business services for the new office. Hearne and Matt Anderson, assurance partner, will work together to grow Weaver's Los Angeles practice with particular focus in the financial services industry. The partners previously worked together on the expansion of Rothstein
Growth equity and venture capital firm North Bridge has promoted Roshen Menon to General Partner. Menon joined North Bridge in 2007 as a Principal.
“Roshen’s promotion formally recognizes his substantial contributions to our team, to our portfolio companies and to North Bridge Growth Equity for the integral role he’s played developing our healthcare focus,” says Doug Kingsley, Managing Director of North Bridge Growth Equity. “We’re excited to have Roshen join the partnership as we continue to grow our community of entrepreneurs, and continue to invest in exciting growth companies that are using technology to re-invent the industries in which they
Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) has promoted Ted Coons and Daniel O’Keefe from principals to general partners, while Sean Giese has been promoted from vice president to principal.
Coons and O’Keefe are based in the New York TCV office. Giese is located in TCV’s Palo Alto headquarters. The moves expand on TCV’s commitment to growing teams of world-class technology investment professionals in its New York and Palo Alto offices.
Jay Hoag, TCV founding general partner, says: “Ted, Dan and Sean have been instrumental in contributing to the growth and success of our portfolio companies. We are thrilled to see these three
Waypoint Capital has received competition clearance from the Turkish and Polish authorities for to take full responsibility for Euromedic International.
Euromedic has also appointed Richard Smith as non-executive Chairman, effective 12 December, 2014.
Ric Smith hard was most recently CEO of Integrated Dental Holdings, having previously worked for Lloyds Pharmacy (part of the Celesio Health Group) as Managing Director. He began his career at Unilever before spending over 30 years working in a series of roles across customer service, multisite operations management, marketing, finance and operations, notably at Somerfield Stores plc.
Stefan Meister, Waypoint Group COO, says: “Richard
Ben Rothberg and Christoph Steffan have joined Tikehau Capital group in London as credit analysts, effective 1 December.
Rothberg joins from Credit Industriel et Commerical (CIC), where he worked in the Acquisition Finance team and brings over 5 years’ corporate lending experience to the Tikehau credit team.
Steffan joins from Morgan Stanley, where he worked in the credit lending department and brings 4 years’ experience to the Tikehau credit team.
Both analysts report into Rodolfo Caceres, Head of Credit Research and will primarily cover leveraged loans from the London office.
These hires are part of Tikehau’s strategy to expand
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