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Investec has expanded its investment banking business with the appointment of Christian Hess as head of its newly created financial sponsor transaction group.
Hess brings a wealth of experience having advised private equity clients for 20 years, including as a founder member of the UBS Financial Sponsor Group and with various M&A execution and senior management roles during his 16 years at UBS. He was a member of the UBS European Investment Banking Department Executive Committee (2007-2012) and head of EMEA Investment Banking Department Coverage (2010-2012).
Hess then founded Hess & Co Capital Advisors and was one of seven
EISER Infrastructure Partners, an independent global infrastructure asset manager, has opened an office in Johannesburg, headed by Richard Onyango.
The new office will be used to support EISER’s role as an investment advisor for Green Africa Power (GAP), which is an initiative of the Private Infrastructure Development Group Trust (PIDG) to offer mezzanine finance and contingent lines of credit to privately-owned renewable power generation projects in the most under-developed countries in Africa.
Onyango’s new role is to lead EISER’s team in the region and will work closely with the London office to originate and execute renewable energy transactions that will
PineBridge Investments has appointed two senior investment professionals to its private funds group.
PineBridge appointed Justin Pollack as senior vice president and Stacia Rogers as vice president, product specialist.
Pollack will support secondaries activities and opportunities for the team, and Rogers will oversee growth initiatives and serve as the team's primary contact for various business development channels.
"We are excited to have such experienced and well-rounded investment professionals join our private funds group," says Steven Costabile, managing director and global head of the private funds group. "Stacia and Justin bring a wealth of knowledge in private market investing
Owain McNeill has joined Quintillion Limited, a European-based affiliate of US Bancorp Fund Services, as senior vice president of business development.
McNeill, based in London, will focus on the continued growth of the company’s alternative investment service offering throughout the European, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) market.
“We are excited to continue expanding our dedicated team of professionals serving the European financial community,” says Joan Kehoe, chief executive officer for Quintillion. “Owain’s experience and expertise in alternative investments and fund administration helps strengthen our team and provides additional support for our clients.”
McNeill joins Quintillion with more
David Wilton is to join Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP) as a managing director with a focus on private equity impact investing.
AIP will develop a private equity impact investing programme in partnership with the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, which seeks to drive private capital toward investments promoting sustainable and profitable economic growth.
Wilton joins Morgan Stanley from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), where he was chief investment officer and manager of its global private equity arm. During his time at IFC, he helped build out the private equity portfolio to more than USD4 billion invested
Covariance Capital Management, a provider of outsourced endowment management services to educational, healthcare and other non-profits, has appointed Kevin Nee as chief executive officer.
Nee will be responsible for the strategic leadership of the business, including new business development and day-to-day oversight of operations and finance.
Scott W Wise, who has led Covariance as president and chief investment officer since its launch in 2011, will remain in those roles.
“We are pleased to welcome Kevin to the Covariance team. We are confident that his background and expertise will be extremely valuable, particularly his experience as a long-term investor
TMF Custom House Fund Services, a provider of fund administration services to the alternative investment sector, has appointed Kevin Walsh as chief operating officer for fund services.
Walsh is based in Dublin.
"Kevin brings over 20 years of experience in the funds industry to TMF Custom House and will play a pivotal role in the company as we are positioned for further growth and expansion of our fund administration services following the finalisation of our acquisition by the TMF Group," says Mark Hedderman, CEO, TMF Custom House. "Kevin will oversee our global operating model and is responsible for the
Peter Hugh Smith is to join Capita Asset Services as managing director of Capita Financial Managers Limited in November 2014.
He joins from WAY Fund Managers where he has held the position of CEO since August 2012.
Chris Addenbrooke, chief executive of Capita Asset Services’ fund solutions arm, says: “Peter brings with him a depth and breadth of management, distribution and investment industry experience which makes him the ideal candidate to take Capita Financial Managers Limited forward. Peter’s previous roles include around 12 years as managing director of Russell Investments’ wholesale distribution business, and also time as a fund
International law firm Pinsent Masons has appointed corporate dealmaker Barry McCaig to head up its 280-strong Glasgow office.
McCaig has been with the firm for 14 years since qualifying as a lawyer and is one of 11 Pinsent Masons partners and directors in Scotland.
In the last year he has been integral in a number of big ticket acquisitions and fund-raisings.
He recently advised Blue Water Energy in the launch of exploration company Siccar Point Energy which has a GBP300 million war chest for North Sea oil and gas development, provided equity advice to TDR and Sun Capital
Miranda Lansdowne has been appointed managing director of the JTC Luxembourg office.
Lansdowne recently relocated from Jersey to Luxembourg to head up the JTC office in Europe’s largest fund domicile.
Lansdowne has worked at JTC Group since 2007 as a group director of fund services overseeing the management of the fund administration teams in Guernsey, Jersey, Luxembourg and the UK.
Further to her JTC responsibilities, she supervises the provision of services to several key private equity fund clients and holds a number of directorships in the funds sector.
Lansdowne will continue with her group responsibilities in addition
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