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Altegris, a provider of alternative investments, has named Jack L Rivkin as chief investment officer.
Rivkin will oversee the firm's research and investments group and will be a member of the Altegris investment committee.
He will also have overall responsibility for identifying, selecting and monitoring fund managers across multiple investment disciplines and will oversee asset allocation and research for Altegris products. He will be a key representative of Altegris in the investment community.
Rivkin has held senior roles in the investment industry with Neuberger Berman, Citigroup Investments, and PaineWebber, among others. His managerial achievements have been featured in
Vinson & Elkins has promoted seven lawyers to its partnership: Manuel Berrelez, Christopher Dewar, and Christina Tate in Dallas; Ryan Carney and Adam Larson in Houston; Jenny Doak in London; and Katy Gottsponer in Washington, D.C.


“The impressive work these lawyers have done on behalf of our clients has been notable and worthy of promotion to our partnership,” says V&E chairman Mark Kelly. “Each individual in this group has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to contribute substantially to the strategic objectives of their practice groups and the firm.”


The new partners span five of the firm’s key practice areas: complex
Gaw Capital Partners USA has appointed Ashish Gupta as senior vice president for acquisitions.
Gupta (pictured) will be based in the soon-to-be opened New York City office and is responsible for US investments for the firm, with a focus on projects located on the east coast and other select knowledge- and innovation-based markets such as Austin, Texas.
Most recently, Gupta was a senior vice president at Lehman Brothers where he was responsible for overseeing the restructuring, asset management and monetisation of a portfolio of debt and equity positions collateralised by approximately 30 million square feet of office space across several major US markets. Through restructurings
Trevor Falle, who for many years was chief executive of FirstRand’s offshore operations, which incorporates both Ashburton in Jersey and FNB International Trustees in Guernsey, has joined JTC Group as a group director.
Falle has 35 years’ financial services industry experience in the Channel Islands, London and the US and spent many years at Ashburton where he was the managing director from 2001 to 2007, a period of significant expansion for the Jersey based investment management group.
In 2004, while still at the helm at Ashburton, he was also appointed chief executive of FirstRand’s offshore operations, a role he
Moore Group has appointed new heads of Europe and Asia to focus its services regionally.
Jon Trigg has been promoted to European head of fund services and Jean-Francois Minier Asia head of fund services.
Trigg’s promotion comes six months after the private equity specialist joined Moore as a director. In his new role he will be responsible for developing Moore’s fund services capability in Europe. Trigg is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has over 13 years’ experience in the financial services sector and has worked in many areas from client to technical and operational. Trigg
Growth equity firm General Atlantic (GA) has promoted Robbert Vorhoff to managing director and Aaron Goldman and Amit Soni to principal.
Vorhoff is based in New York and leads GA’s global healthcare sector. Goldman and Soni are senior professionals in the firm’s New York and Mumbai offices, respectively.
“We are proud to have Robb as a managing director at GA. He is a highly talented professional who leads our investments in the healthcare sector, a dynamic industry in which we see high growth opportunities both here and abroad,” says William E Ford, chief executive of General Atlantic. “We are
KBL European Private Bankers (KBL epb) has appointed Marc Formisani, a senior professional with more than a decade of corporate finance experience, as head of mergers & acquisitions, based in Luxembourg.
Formisani will lead, coordinate and execute the M&A process, in close collaboration with all relevant stakeholders.
He has also been mandated to provide analysis and act as a trusted advisor to the KBL epb executive committee.
“Today, KBL epb has significant growth ambitions and the full support of our shareholder to achieve our goals,” says Jacques Peters, group chief executive, KBL epb. “Marc Formisani will play a
Syntaxis Capital, a provider of mezzanine finance in Central Europe, has boosted its responsible investment credentials with the appointment of Rupert Coull, an expert in environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles.
Coull will take on central responsibility for all elements of the firm’s ESG policy, as Syntaxis furthers its commitment to responsible investment.
Coull joins the firm with more than a decade’s experience in finance. Having initially qualified as a barrister, he spent eight years in investment banking, working for firms such as Cazenove and Merrill Lynch. Most recently he ran a large private equity portfolio at a pension
Revere Capital Advisors, the New York and London-based boutique financial services firm, has formed Revere Merchant Capital (RMC), a new merchant banking group.


Revere has recruited externally to assemble a senior team which is comprised of Albert G Pastino, executive vice chairman, responsible for the strategic direction of RMC; Colby W Collier, president, and responsible for the overall operation of the firm; and William H Haemmerle who joins as managing director and is responsible for M&A advisory, capital formation and all other investment banking services.


RMC will lead and co-invest in equity and debt financings in connection with change
Harry Green has joined Houlihan Lokey’s illiquid financial asset (IFA) practice as a director with a primary focus on transaction execution.
Green is based in New York, reporting to Jeff Hammer and Paul Sanabria, co-heads of IFA.
Green previously worked in the specialty finance and private portfolio group at Plainfield Asset Management, where he actively managed the specialty finance portfolio and ultimately was responsible for liquidation of these and other illiquid assets under the firm's management. For most of the prior decade he worked in private equity, most notably for six years at Doughty Hanson & Co.
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