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Akina, a specialist advisor to private equity vehicles, has promoted Ralf Gleisberg to partner with immediate effect.
Gleisberg joined the company in 2005. He advised on fund investments in France, the Benelux and the Nordic countries and helped defining country strategies.
Gleisberg was also instrumental in setting up the portfolio monitoring for Akina advised investment vehicles.
Gleisberg has over 15 years of experience in the financial industry with focus on private equity and corporate finance.
Christopher S Bödtker, managing partner of Akina, says: “In his years with us, Ralf has continuously demonstrated a high level of expertise
Private financial cloud provider Options has appointed former NYSE Euronext executive Richard Hughes as senior vice president, managing director for Europe.
Hughes, who was most recently responsible for global business development at NYSE Technologies, NYSE Euronext’s commercial technology division, will be responsible for overseeing the firm’s wider European division and associated efforts to drive new business growth, deliver service excellence and further develop Options’ regional relationships and broader European presence.
Hughes brings 25-plus years’ experience in building and developing high performing teams and selling complex business integration solutions to the financial services industry.
In addition to his most
Paraag Davé, Tom Shelford and David Torbet have been made partners of Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm.
Senior partner Mark Salter also joins Bowmark’s management committee alongside Kevin Grassby and Charles Ind.
The internal reorganisation follows the recent fundraising of Bowmark Capital Partners V, which closed in December 2013 at its cap of GBP375 million. The new fund’s investment period begins this month and it will invest in growth-oriented service companies, typically with enterprise values of up to GBP100 million.
Salter has played a key role in Bowmark’s development over the past 12 years, including leading
Darryl Eales is to step down from his role as chief executive officer of private equity investor LDC on 1 May after 11 years in the position.
Chris Hurley, deputy CEO, and Martin Draper, chief investment officer, will lead the business as co-heads and chief executives of LDC.
As part of an existing succession plan, Eales (pictured) will step down from the LDC board but will continue his involvement with the business in a part-time advisory chairman role and support the final phase of the transition plan to new leadership. He will also retain a number of board roles
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has appointed Michael “Ben” Garcia as special counsel in the firm’s global securities practice group in the New York office.
Garcia brings corporate finance and capital markets experience to Milbank.
He regularly advises issuers and underwriters in cross-border securities offerings, with a deal book that spans from Latin America to Europe, Asia and North America. He has counselled leading financial institutions and investment banks, as well as private equity firms and corporate issuers. In addition to advising on debt and equity offerings, he has advised on M&A transactions, commercial financings, leveraged buyouts and IPOs.
The Presidio Group, a personal and corporate financial services firm, has named eight professionals as equity partners, bringing the total number of employee-partners to 15.
The new employee-partners are: Bruce Brugler; Colin Carter; Antonio Casal; Jerry Deren; Tom Emig; Pablo Ferreri; Kelly Lawson; and, Barry Rudolph.
“Growing our partnership base not only aligns the interests of the senior management team at The Presidio Group, thus ensuring a unified and cohesive organization, but also further strengthens the interests of the firm with those of our clients,” says Karl Schade, chief executive officer and managing director of The Presidio Group. “We
New York-based private equity firm GenNx360 Capital Partners has appointed industry veteran Glen Bushery as chief financial officer, effective immediately.
Bushery’s public and private accounting experience spans almost 30 years. For the past decade, Bushery served as chief financial officer and chief compliance officer at Falconhead Capital, a lower middle-market private equity firm based in New York City, where he was responsible for administration, finance, compliance and HR.
Prior to Falconhead, Bushery served as controller for Vestar Capital Partners, another New York City-based private equity firm, where he was responsible for the oversight of the financial reporting process and
Shirin Tang, a corporate lawyer with experience in M&A, private equity and joint venture transactions, has joined Morrison & Foerster as a corporate partner in Singapore.
"We are delighted to welcome a lawyer of Shirin's calibre to MoFo. Her reputation for M&A work precedes her, and we know she will be instrumental in growing our practice in Singapore," says Eric Piesner, managing partner of the firm's Singapore office and firmwide managing partner for Asia.
"Morrison & Foerster has consistently been where the M&A action is in Asia, which is one of the main reasons I decided to join the
Law firm K&L Gates has added Jim Wu, a former general counsel with Yahoo! Asia Pacific, as a corporate partner in its Taipei and Palo Alto offices.


Wu has functioned in a leadership or in-house counsel role for a variety of different entities during the past decade and a half, advising on corporate governance matters; mergers and acquisitions, investments, and strategic partnerships; private equity financing; and corporate securities affairs.
This included seven years with Yahoo! Inc., where Wu served in such positions as general counsel, Asia Pacific; director of corporate development, North Asia; and associate general counsel and vice president
Kinetic Partners, the global financial services advisory firm, has made two promotions in its team in Hong Kong.
AnnMarie Croswell has been promoted to member and Katrina Banh to associate director within Kinetic Partners regulatory compliance team in Hong Kong.
Since establishing in Hong Kong two years ago, Kinetic Partners has seen significant growth in the number of clients based in Hong Kong requesting support for Securities & Futures Commission (SFC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registration, as well as on-going compliance advice.
Demand from larger firms and investment banks for support with transaction monitoring and reporting
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