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Alternative asset management firm Napier Park Global Capital has appointed John P Havens as partner and non-executive chairman.
“We are thrilled to welcome John to the Napier Park team,” says Jim O’Brien, co-managing partner of Napier Park. “John is a seasoned, well-recognised leader in the financial services industry who has always stood for integrity and creating the best solutions to meet the needs of his clients. Our team will benefit greatly from the full range of his management talent and experience.”
Most recently, Havens (pictured) was president and chief operating officer of Citigroup and was instrumental in stabilising the
Northern Trust has expanded its alternatives group with two appointments focused on investment opportunities in venture capital and secondary markets for private equity.
James R ‘Trey’ Hart III , who is responsible for sourcing and analysing venture capital investment opportunities in the US and Asia, joined Northern Trust from Greenspring Associates, a global venture capital fund-of-funds based in Baltimore, Maryland.
Adam R Freda, who focuses on sourcing, valuing and executing private equity and venture capital transactions on the secondary market, was previously at Wind Point Partners, a middle-market leveraged buyout fund based in Chicago.
"These appointments help to
Lionel Leventhal has joined Houlihan Lokey’s illiquid financial asset (IFA) practice as a managing director and head of royalty and revenue interest financing.
He will focus primarily on royalty monetizations and revenue interest financings in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics subsectors with a broader mandate to expand coverage into similarly structured illiquid financial assets in other industries.
He is based in New York.
Prior to joining Houlihan Lokey, Leventhal spent 14 years at Paul Capital, where he was a general partner and co-founder of Paul Capital Healthcare, the first fund platform focused on royalty/revenue interest financing
Berkshire Partners, the Boston-based investment firm, has appointed Jon Meyer and Anil Seetharam as managing directors effective 1 January 2014.
They join the 17 current managing directors of Berkshire in managing the firm and its affiliated investment funds.
Meyer and Seetharam will continue in their current roles within Stockbridge Investors, the investment group within Berkshire that focuses on marketable securities.
Meyer originally joined Berkshire in 1999 as a private equity associate. Before re-joining the firm in 2008 as a member of the Stockbridge investment team, he served as a managing director for Farallon Capital Management, where he focused
The Edmond de Rothschild Group has appointed Dr Naveed Siddiqi as a partner in its BioDiscovery venture capital funds franchise.
Gilles Nobécourt, Raphael Wisniewski and Olivier Litzka, the three existing partners, say: "We are delighted that Naveed has joined the Edmond de Rothschild Group. He brings 13 years of venture capital investment experience in companies focused on innovation. He will be joining the life sciences team to select new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies of the recently raised EUR192m (USD250m) BioDiscovery 4 venture fund."
Prior to joining the Edmond de Rothschild Group, Siddiqi was a partner at Phase4 Ventures. His
Encore Consumer Capital has promoted Kevin Murphy to managing director and Bill Shen to director.
Murphy is a board member of Encore investments Atlantic Aqua Farms, MyChelle, Tarte and ThunderWorks. He has been with Encore since soon after the firm's founding in 2005.
Robert Brown, Encore co-founder and managing director, says: "Kevin was our first key hire and is a great asset to the firm. He is a strong leader of our investments and a great partner to our management teams. We are thrilled to promote him to managing director."
Prior to joining Encore Murphy worked at Genstar
Riverside Partners, a Boston-based private investment firm focused on middle market healthcare and technology companies, has promoted two investment professionals.
The promotions further strengthen the firm's investment team as it continues to invest Riverside Fund V, a USD561m equity fund.
David Del Papa (pictured) has been promoted to principal. He has over five years of private equity experience and joined the firm in 2012 as a vice president. He has been involved in all facets of the investment process and played a key role on several Riverside Partners investments including ITC Global, First Light Fiber (formerly Tech Valley Communications), Thinklogical,
Palamon Capital Partners has elected Julian Carreras, Pascal Jean-Noël Noth and Gary Pritchard to the partnership.
Carreras, previously a principal, originally joined Palamon in 2003 from Goldman Sachs. A Spanish national, he has consistently played an important role in executing the firm’s investment strategy across continental Europe with a particular focus on Spain and Italy. He sits on the board of SARquavitae, Spain’s largest provider of elderly care, where he also serves on the Executive Committee. He is also active in a board capacity in Palamon portfolio companies EnGrande in Spain, Sigla in Italy and Quality Solicitors in the UK.
Ogier has appointed Shameer Jasani as a partner in the firm’s Cayman Islands corporate and funds team.
Jasani’s practice is focused on investment funds, including hedge funds, funds of funds and private equity funds.
He advises investment managers on all aspects of their structuring, formation and ongoing operational requirements. He also regularly advises strategic and seed investors.
In addition to his investment funds practice, Jasani is one of Cayman's leading practitioners on intellectual property law matters, and also regularly advises on acquisitions, joint ventures and a wide range of other corporate law matters.
Jasani joined Ogier
Birch Equity Partners, a new private equity firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, has launched to focus on investing in established expansion-stage businesses with future growth potential.
Birch Equity Partners is a partnership between Holcombe Green, Jr, Vincent M Oddo and Dr R Kirby Godsey.
"Birch Equity Partners has been a vision of ours for some time and we are excited to finally get started," says Oddo, managing partner. "Our prior success growing and operating Birch Communications has enabled us to develop a unique set of assets and resources which we think will be very valuable to small and mid-sized
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