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Lower mid market growth investor Lyceum Capital has expanded its team to 24 with the appointments of Mark Swallow as Operations Manager, and Adam Lewis as Investment Executive.
This follows the promotions of Humphrey Baker and Martin Wygas to Investment Director earlier this year, and reflects the firm’s strong deal flow and pipeline of opportunities for platform investments and add on acquisitions.
With 12 years’ experience, Swallow joins from Sage Group plc where he was Head of Finance for Sage Pay. Prior to that he held roles at Discovery Communications Europe, Accord Group and Casio Electronics. At Lyceum, Swallow
Sophie Rouland has joined mid-market private equity firm Activa Capital as an Investment Director.
Rouland, 39, previously worked for 10 years at Barclays Private Equity France, now Equistone Partners Europe.
Prior to Barclays Private Equity, Rouland worked for three years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Paris in the audit and transaction services departments. She is a graduate of EM Lyon.
Charles Diehl, Partner of Activa Capital, says: "We are very happy to welcome a new Investment Director at Activa Capital. Sophie will bring her strong experience and sector knowledge to our team of 14 professionals which has considerably grown
Gresham, the mid-market Private Equity firm, has appointed Michaela Ellison as its new marketing manager.
Ellison will be based in the London office but will oversee marketing activity across Gresham’s four offices including Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol.
Eliison joins from mid-market accounting firm Grant Thornton where she spent three years in the marketing team targeting national private equity houses and private equity-backed businesses.
Paul Thomas, Partner, Gresham Private Equity, says: ‘Michaela is a great appointment for Gresham and we are delighted that she is joining us’.
Michaela said, ‘I am really excited to join the Gresham team,
Future Capital Partners (FCP), the GBP6 billion alternative investment boutique, has appointed Anthony Rogers as Business Development Manager.
Rogers will be responsible for raising awareness of and presenting FCP’s range of innovative investment products to financial advisers, accountants and tax planners in the South East region.
Initially, Rogers will focus on promoting FCP’s ground-breaking investment opportunity ‘Future Fuels’ which will allow UK investors to invest in the rapidly growing Renewable Transport Fuels (RTF) sector for the first time. He will also be responsible for endorsing the firm’s luxury real estate development investment opportunity in Montenegro, which is funding the construction
E Eric Rytter has joined the Corporate group in international law firm Dorsey & Whitney’s New York office as a Partner and Head of the Office’s Private Equity practice group.
Rytter’s practice focuses on advising private equity funds, other financial sponsors, their portfolio companies, and international corporate entities on a broad range of legal issues and transactional scenarios, including domestic and cross-border acquisitions, leveraged acquisitions, growth equity investments, financing arrangements and other corporate advisory matters.
Rytter routinely counsels clients on the strategic legal needs of their businesses, including matters related to commercial contracts, corporate governance, director and officer fiduciary
O’Melveny & Myers LLP is pleased to announce that prominent UK entertainment transactions lawyer Lisbeth “Libby” Savill will be joining O’Melveny & Myers LLP in August as a partner in the Entertainment, Sports and Media Practice. She will be based in O’Melveny’s London office. Savill is the former head of Olswang LLP’s Film and Television team.
“Libby has worked with some of the motion picture industry’s most important and influential players, from major US studios to leading US- and UK-based producers, distributors, and financiers, many of whom already are clients of our firm,” says Joseph Calabrese, chair of O’Melveny’s Entertainment,
iCON Infrastructure, the independent investment firm focused on investments in core infrastructure in Europe and North America, has appointed Iain Macleod as a partner, with effect from July 2012.
Macleod joins the iCON team that has led private institutional investment in European infrastructure since the early 2000s and has been responsible for over EUR2.5 billion of institutional investment in mature infrastructure assets over the past decade.
Macleod has two decades of corporate finance and infrastructure experience. He joins from Deutsche Bank where he spent over 11 years in roles including Head of Transportation and Infrastructure for EMEA and Head of M&A
The General Assembly of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) has elected Vincenzo Morelli (pictured), Partner Emeritus and Senior Advisor to global investment firm TPG, as its Chairman for the year to June 2013.
Morelli has a long track record in management, particularly in helping struggling businesses to return to profitability. As Operating Partner at TPG Capital Europe from 2005 until 2012, Morelli managed corporate governance and operational change across TPG’s European portfolio companies. Morelli continues to chair two of TPG’s portfolio companies. For the past three years since its inception, Morelli has been Chairman of the
Robert B Kaplan, Co-Chief of the Asset Management Unit of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement, is to join Debevoise & Plimpton as a litigation partner resident in the firm’s Washington, DC office.
In his role at the Asset Management Unit, Kaplan co-led a team of 75 lawyers and industry experts focused on investigations related to potential violations of securities laws by advisers to hedge funds, private equity funds, mutual funds and separately managed accounts. He partnered with senior leadership in other divisions of the SEC to establish law enforcement priorities in the asset management industry and
Jonathan M A Melmed has been appointed as head of Morrison & Foerster’s private equity practice in New York. He was previously a partner with Chadbourne & Park and head of that firm’s Canada practice.
Melmed represents private equity funds and portfolio companies, along with hedge funds, public companies and investment banks in M&A deals and other transactions. He brings particular experience in the alternative energy, infrastructure, media, telecommunications, and life sciences sectors.
Melmed’s clients have included Strategic Value Partners, OMERS Capital Partners, EnerTech Capital, BMO Capital, Morguard and Harbinger Capital Partners.
Melmed follows several other recent corporate partners to MoFo in
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