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Waller Capital Partners has opened an office in San Francisco in support of the firm’s continued growth in the technology industry.
As part of this expansion, Waller Capital has also appointed Richard Juarez as a managing director to lead coverage in the cloud services and SaaS sectors.
Juarez has more than 16 years of investment banking experience, including a long career at Robertson Stephens & Co, and most recently as co-head of technology at Morgan Joseph TriArtisan. Throughout his career, Juarez has assisted technology clients on more than 50 transactions, including GlobalScape’s acquisition of TappIn, a raise of equity and
BDO has appointed Susan Walker as a senior director within the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) team based in London.
Walker has specialist experience in plc advisory and capital markets, and will help to enhance and develop this side of the M&A practice.
John Stephan, M&A partner at BDO, says: “We are delighted to announce the appointment of Susan Walker as a senior director in our national M&A team. Susan will focus on plc advisory work including takeover offers, listings and M&A for public companies which reinforces BDO’s commitment to its full service offering in mid-market M&A. This important hire
Thomas von Koch has been appointed as the new managing partner at private equity group EQT.
Founder Conni Jonsson, who has served as managing partner since the inception of EQT back in 1994 will, in his role as working chairman of EQT Holdings AB, continue to work full time for EQT and focus on investment advisory activities and increased interaction with EQT investors.
Both von Koch (pictured) and Jonsson will be members of all relevant EQT investment advisory related committees and portfolio company review committees.
“It has been an amazing 20 years leading EQT from a single buyout
Alternative assets law firm MJ Hudson has appointed two senior M&A/venture capital lawyers – Karma Samdup and Graham Nicholson.


Samdup, previously of CMS Cameron McKenna, joins as a partner of the firm to lead the venture practice.
Samdup brings to the firm his strong reputation for advising start-ups and high-growth companies, as well as angels and VCs in the technology and life sciences sectors.Samdup also has extensive experience of advising corporate and management teams on public and private M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions and joint ventures. 


Previously an equity partner in SJ Berwin’s private equity group,
Garth T Troxell has joined Summer Street Capital, a Buffalo, New York-based private equity fund, as a partner.
Troxell will be actively engaged in all aspects of Summer Street's investment activities and portfolio management, and will lead Summer Street's investor relations efforts.
Troxell has a diverse experience base spanning consulting, private equity, and investment banking. Prior to joining Summer Street, he served as a consultant to investment banking and private equity clients. From 2002 to 2012, he was with Altius Associates, the private equity consulting and fund of funds firm, most recently as a partner and executive director.
Pan-European mid-market private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners has appointed Jonathan Heathcote as a partner and Matteo Nichil as an executive to the firm.
Heathcote joins from Palamon Capital Partners where he was one of six partners responsible for the origination, execution and management of European mid-market investments, primarily in Spain, Germany and the UK.
Prior to this, Heathcote was a consultant to Stirling Square in 2007-08 and was involved in a number of notable transactions during that time, including the acquisition of Italian aerospace company Microtecnica. He was a partner at European Acquisition Capital in 2002-07 and
Jared A Hershberg has joined Winston & Straw’s private equity practice as a partner in New York.
Winston’s national private equity practice provides strategic advice and legal counsel to middle-market private equity funds, hedge funds, family offices, real estate funds, alternative asset managers, portfolio companies, and institutional investors.
Hershberg has been a key player in both domestic and global deals in areas where our corporate and private equity reach is expanding.
Hershberg’s practice focuses on private equity investments, private investment funds, and mergers and acquisitions. He advises private equity and other investment funds, limited partners and public and
Wealthcare Capital Management is to be acquired by NewSpring Holdings, a private equity investment company located in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
Wealthcare, a provider of goals-based wealth management technology and advisory services, will run as a standalone company out of its existing headquarters in Richmond, Virginia.
In its partnership with NewSpring, Wealthcare will retain its core group of employees dedicated to advisor relations, its operating and service structure, and its goals-based financial planning and wealth management services for advisors and their clients.
Founded in 1999, Wealthcare operates its technology licensing business serving the clients of over 30,000 advisors who are
CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, has appointed Mark Eckstein as director, environmental and social responsibility.
Eckstein will oversee a team that seeks to improve environmental and social standards across CDC’s portfolio of investments.
CDC’s more than 1,200 investments span 80 countries and include fund investments, debt investments and direct equity investments.
Most recently Eckstein was managing director of World Wildlife Fund US’s sustainable finance programme, and has spent much of his career focusing on the role that financial institutions can play in enabling more responsible and sustainable development. His 25-year career includes senior roles at the
FundersClub has named Engle Saez as executive vice president and chief marketing officer.
Saez has more than 20 years of experience providing branding, marketing, and revenue growth leadership to some of the world's leading consumer brands, including Starbucks, Eddie Bauer, Timberland, Sperry Top-Sider and Esprit de Corp.
Prior to joining FundersClub, he served as chief marketing officer at Blue Nile, where he was responsible for developing revenue and growth initiatives for the online jeweller.
"Engle is an experienced general manager with a solid record of building enduring, premium brands in the multi-channel retail space," says FundersClub co-founder and
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