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Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic investor focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, has appointed Katie Ossman as vice president.
Ossman (pictured) augments Water Street’s team of senior investment professionals and former executives of healthcare corporations including Baxter International, CVS Caremark Corporation, Johnson & Johnson and McKesson Corporation.
Ossman will support Water Street with identifying new investment opportunities, and developing and implementing strategic plans to expand its group of health care companies. Prior to Water Street, Ossman worked as an associate with Avista Capital Partners, where she focused on investments in the health care, consumer and industrials sectors. She began
Monroe Capital has appointed Bradley Nii as managing director in its Los Angeles office.
Nii will serve as the firm’s group head for the Southern California region.
Warren Woo, also located in Los Angeles, will continue in his current role as a partner of Monroe Capital Partners Fund, an SBIC fund formed in 2011.
“We are very excited to add Brad to the Monroe Capital team,” says Ted Koenig, president and CEO of Monroe Capital. “Brad has an accomplished career providing financing solutions to middle-market companies and brings with him over 25 years of experience in corporate lending,
Manulife Financial is expanding its global third party private asset management business.
The new business unit will be called Manulife Asset Management Private Markets.
The business unit will bring together specialised private asset teams that currently manage funds for third party investors, as well as provide investors with access to Manulife Financial's other specialised private asset investment teams that historically have primarily served its general fund.
"We have invested successfully in these private asset classes for decades and our investment teams are among the most experienced in the business," says Warren Thomson, senior executive vice president and chief
Jersey-based specialist fund services firm Ipes has bolstered its senior management team with two new hires.
Jonathan Buesnel has been appointed as the new business/technical director while David England has taken up the position of compliance manager for Ipes Jersey.
Having been appointed to the board of Ipes Jersey, Buesnel will be responsible for managing the new business take on process whilst providing technical oversight.
Buesnel has more than 17 years offshore experience in the financial services sector. He joins Ipes from Moore Management where he was responsible for business development and client relationships having previously been a
Ice Miller has appointed veteran transactional attorney Edward Braum to its Columbus, Ohio, office.
Braum, who joins the firm as a partner in the business group, focuses his practice on complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and debt and equity investments.
Before arriving at Ice Miller, Braum practiced for 14 years in the New York office of Goodwin Procter in the business law department and private equity group.
Braum represents private equity and venture capital investment funds and their portfolio companies in an array of businesses and has significant experience in the life sciences, healthcare
Credit Suisse is to spin off the DLJ Investment Partners business (DLJIP), including the existing investment team led by Igor DaCosta and Charles Harper, to Portfolio Advisors.
Portfolio Advisors, an independent, employee-owned firm that provides tailored private equity, private credit and real estate investment solutions to both institutional and high net worth clients through separately managed accounts and commingled fund-of-funds programmes, will become the new investment manager of DLJ Investment Partners (DLJIP I), DLJ Investment Partners II (DLJIP II), and DLJ Investment Partners III (DLJIP III).
DaCosta (pictured) and Harper will continue to manage the DLJIP funds and all
Scandinavian municipal waste collector RenoNorden, a portfolio company of CapVest, has appointed Staffan Ebenfelt as group chief executive officer, effective January 2014.
Ebenfelt has spent the past 13 years with Coor Services Management, a Nordic facilities manager, most recently as executive vice president. Prior to his current position, he was head of Coor’s Swedish business for 12 years as well as being responsible for the group’s operations outside the Nordics, including Hungary, Poland and Belgium.
RenoNorden is focussed exclusively on household waste collection for 4.3 million inhabitants on behalf of municipalities. CapVest, the European mid-market private equity firm, acquired
Private equity firm TA Associates has made two strategic hires in newly created senior roles.
Jeffrey C Hadden has joined TA as chief operating officer and general counsel, and Kevin L. Masse has joined the firm as chief portfolio officer. Both serve in TA’s Boston office. The hires were effective 4 November.
Hadden is responsible for the general oversight of TA’s global non-investment operations. He oversees all legal matters, including compliance, and marketing and human resources functions, including recruiting, training and performance reviews. Hadden joins TA from Goodwin Procter. He served as TA’s outside general counsel since 1987 in his role as
Kewsong Lee is to join alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group as deputy chief investment officer for corporate private equity.
Lee comes to this newly-created position at Carlyle from Warburg Pincus where he was managing director and member of the executive management group. Lee begins his duties in late December and will be based in New York and Washington, DC.
Carlyle co-chief executive officer and chief investment officer William E Conway, Jr says: "Carlyle's greatest strength is the depth, continuity and collegiality of our global investment professionals. Kew will be a great addition to this team and will play
Patton Boggs has established a public finance practice and enhanced its private fund investment and infrastructure transactions capabilities with the addition of four attorneys – three in its New York office and one in Washington DC.
Joining the firm in New York are Alphonso E. (Al) Tindall, Jr., Sani A. Williams and Deborah Hartmann Henry.
Joining the firm in Washington DC is Alethia N. Nancoo.
Nancoo and Tindall join as partners, while Williams and Henry join as of counsel. The group brings extensive experience in international, domestic and municipal public and project finance, private fund investment and infrastructure
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