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Chancery Investment Partners (CIP), a provider of tax efficient private equity investments, has hired Patricia Reynolds as business development director.
Reynolds joins CIP from Carey Pensions, the UK administration and trustee company of Guernsey-based Carey Group.
Prior to Carey, Reynolds was at The Royal Bank of Scotland for over 15 years, where she spent nine years as senior business financial planning manager with responsibility for the sale of retail financial services products including SIPPs and savings and investment products to the bank’s retail business and commercial banking clients.
Gary Robins, partner at CIP, says: “Patricia has a fantastic relationship
Weldex, a UK crane hire company backed by private equity firm Dunedin, has appointed Bill Caplan as chairman.
Dunedin backed the GBP55m management buyout (MBO) of Weldex in June 2010.
Until recently, Caplan served as an executive director on the board of Aggreko.
Prior to joining Aggreko, Caplan spent 18 years working for UPS’ international parcels and supply chain solutions divisions.
Nicol Fraser, partner at Dunedin, who sits on the board of Weldex, says: “Bill has a great deal of experience in managing and growing large-scale international operations for privately and publicly held companies and we are
Private equity firm Phoenix Equity Partners has promoted David Burns and Richard Daw to managing partners of the firm, alongside James Thomas who has been a managing partner since 2001.
Sandy Muirhead, who has also been a managing partner of Phoenix throughout this period, is stepping down as a managing partner.
Burns and Daw have both been with Phoenix for 13 years and are long-standing members of the firm’s management committee. In their new roles, they will take shared responsibility with Thomas for day to day management of the firm and for its investor relations activity.
Muirhead will
Venture capital firm Lux Capital has promoted Zack Schildhorn and Shahin Farshchi to partner and Adam Goulburn to principal.
“We’re incredibly proud of the growth and contributions from Zack, Shahin and Adam,” says Peter Hebert, co-founder and managing partner of Lux Capital. “Each has proven themselves over a period of years and has demonstrably added value to the firm by actively sourcing, leading and structuring new investments, observing or serving on boards, recruiting talent, managing teams of people, networking and representing Lux at industry events – all towards helping add value to our portfolio companies and working on behalf of
European sector-focused private equity firm HgCapital has made 15 internal promotions.
In the service team, Andrew Land has been promoted to partner, and both Simon Cottle and Thorsten Toepfer have been promoted to director.
Land joined the firm in 2011 from Och-Ziff Capital Management and has spent the last 15 years in European private equity. He led HgCapital’s recent acquisitions of Zenith and Leasedrive and sits on the boards of Voyage Care and Relay Software.
Cottle joined the firm in 2011 from Cognetas, having worked previously at Deutsche Bank. He currently sits on the boards of Parts Alliance
Private equity and real estate secondary manager Landmark Partners has hired Geoffrey Mullen as a principal with the firm.
Mullen joins Landmark to enhance and expand the firm’s business development and investor relations team.
Most recently, he was a managing director at Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, where he led institutional business development, marketing, and distribution.
“Understanding our investor’s objectives and delivering strong performance have been key to Landmark’s growth and success for almost three decades,” says Landmark managing partner Tim Haviland. “Geoff has extensive industry knowledge and experience working with institutional investors. He has built and led
Perella Weinberg Partners has appointed Jorma Ollila, former chairman and chief executive officer of nokia and current chairman of the board of directors of Royal Dutch Shell and Outokumpu Oyj, as advisory partner.
Ollila will provide senior counsel to the firm and its clients, particularly in Europe.
Joseph Perella, chairman and chief executive officer of Perella Weinberg Partners, says: "Jorma is a well-respected executive and he represents everything we prize in a senior advisor. He offers invaluable international business perspective and insight that will be beneficial to both the Firm and our clients. We are very fortunate to have
Private equity fund administrator Ipes has appointed Mark Coppin as operations director for Ipes UK.
Coppin (pictured) brings with him more than 16 years financial services experience during which he has specialised in private equity accounting and administration.
A member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) Coppin has joined Ipes from Langham Hall where he was in charge of the private equity reporting team, advising clients in private equity funds, venture funds and fund of funds.
Coppin says: “I joined Ipes because it has a pure private equity focus and real strength and
Andrew Crawford has joined General Atlantic (GA) as a managing director based in New York.
He will lead GA’s global investment activity in the retail and consumer sector.
General Atlantic’s most recent investments in this sector include Tory Burch and AND Designs.
“We are pleased to welcome Andy to our global team and to lead our efforts in the retail and consumer sector,” says William Ford, CEO of General Atlantic. “Andy’s investing acumen, retail and consumer expertise and leadership qualities will be a significant addition to our team.”
Crawford says: “I have long admired General Atlantic and
Hycroft, a specialty investment bank focused exclusively on the alternative investments market, has appointed Tom Bratkovich as managing director.
Bratkovich will head Hycroft's San Francisco office and provide coverage for the US West Coast and select Asia-Pacific markets.
At Hycroft, Bratkovich will lead the firm's limited partner advisory and portions of the firm's transactional practice, have a strong role in the distribution of primary and secondary offerings, and play a key role in Hycroft's anticipated principal investment practice supporting Hycroft's general partner clients in their financing and restructuring needs.
Scott A Myers, managing director of Hycroft, says:
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