Castle Harlan, the New York private equity investment firm, has promoted Tariq Osman to managing director. Osman’s (pictured) promotion reflects his multiple contributions to CHI over the last five years, as well as his prior five years of experience at CHI’s Australian affiliate, CHAMP. Recently, he has been particularly active in CHI’s investment activities in energy services and equipment businesses. Osman has been with Castle Harlan since 2008 and previously was a vice president. Before joining Castle Harlan, Osman spent five years with Castle Harlan’s Australian affiliate, CHAMP Private Equity, where he focused on private equity transactions across a wide

Independently owned global placement agent and advisory firm Atlantic-Pacific Capital has appointed Brian Wade as partner. Wade will continue to work closely with institutional investors in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast US, including public and corporate pension plans, endowments, foundations, financial institutions, fund-of-funds and family offices. Wade has over 15 years of experience in limited partner, general partner and third-party distribution roles during his alternative investment career. Prior to joining Atlantic-Pacific, he was a managing director in Credit Suisse Asset Management’s institutional distribution group. Before Credit Suisse, he was the director of investor relations at JLL Partners, a middle-market private equity

Split Rock Partners, a venture capital firm focused on software, internet services, and healthcare has promoted David Allison to principal in its Menlo Park office. Allison (pictured) has been with the firm since 2009 and has focused on investments in the healthcare sector. In the past three years, Allison’s role within the firm has grown to include sourcing direct and secondary investments, co-sponsoring portfolio investments and portfolio management.  He is currently a board member at EBR Systems, and actively supports Split Rock portfolio companies, including Histogenics, Holaira, DFine, Transcend Medical, Twelve and RF Surgical. "David has been a key member

Prolog Ventures, a life science venture capital firm, has named John Steuart as a managing director. He will join managing directors Brian Clevinger, Greg Johnson and Ilya Nykin, who co-founded Prolog in 2000. Steuart (pictured) has more than 25 years of experience managing healthcare and technology companies and venture capital funds. He began his investing career at the pioneering venture capital firm Alafi Capital, where for a time he worked closely alongside Clevinger. The two later also collaborated on the leadership team of Megan Health, a spinout of Washington University in St. Louis. Steuart went on to serve as the

Genstar Capital, a middle market private equity firm that focuses on investments in the insurance and financial services, software, life sciences, healthcare, and industrial technology industries, has promoted Eli P Weiss to principal and David J Golde to vice president. Weiss (pictured) joined Genstar in 2008 and was named a vice president in 2011.  Prior to joining Genstar, he was an associate at Hellman & Friedman. Previously, Weiss worked for Greenhill & Co in New York as an analyst in the mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and principal investing groups. Weiss serves on the boards of directors of Evolution1, Innovative Aftermarket

Pan-emerging makers private equity firm Actis has appointed Sergio Brandao as a director focusing on energy opportunities in Latin America. Brandao (pictured) will be based in Actis’s São Paulo office, where the firm now has a team of 12 investment professionals focusing on the consumer, financial services and energy sectors.   Barndao joins Actis from Rio Bravo Investimentos where he was partner and co-fund manager. Prior to that he worked at Skanska, Unocal and the AES Corporation, and for a decade at Royal Dutch Shell in the US, UK, the Netherlands and Brunei.   Actis has recently made a number of

The Employee Stock Option Fund (ESO Fund), a specialist in stock option financing for employees of venture-backed companies, has appointed Michael Banks as a venture partner. Banks (pictured) is the founding partner of Windy Hill Capital, a seed capital fund, and has spent the last 16 years with leading venture firms investing in entrepreneurs at compelling technology companies like Pure Digital Technologies, Peregrine Semiconductor, Tapjoy, Silverpop and Kanjoya. "As a board member of a variety of successful start-ups, I became aware that many departing employees were struggling financially to exercise their vested equity positions. As an investor, I saw the

Law firm K&L Gates has expanded its Boston office with the additions of two new partners, Mark L Johnson and Paulo J Marnoto, and eight new associates. Johnson (pictured) joins the firm’s corporate securities and finance practice from Cooley, while Marnoto joins the firm’s private equity and fund formation practice from Ropes & Gray. With a practice that has focused on corporate, securities, and capital markets matters for nearly 30 years, Johnson advises issuers, investment banks, and investors in public offerings and other financings by US and international issuers in an array of industries, particularly in the technology and life

International direct investment firm OceanBridge Partners is expanding in both the US and in Europe where it has opened a new London office. Simultaneously it has appointed new partners to join the founders in order to take advantage of the investment opportunities which are now emerging. OceanBridge has adopted a new approach to private equity by offering an innovative way to make direct investments outside the rigid framework of a conventional fund structure. OceanBridge was conceived out of the recognition that the conventional private equity model may have limited appeal for certain types of investors. Typically, these investors are reluctant