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The Riverside Company has recruited Erick Bronner (pictured) to lead the firm’s Investor Relations department. Bronner brings 20 years of private equity fundraising and investment banking experience, most recently as a Founding Partner at Mercury Capital Advisors, a global private equity fundraising and investment advisory firm.
Prior to Mercury, Bronner was a Managing Director in Merrill Lynch’s Private Equity Funds Group. As Global Head, Fundraising and Investor Relations, Bronner assumes the reins from Christine Croissant, who is moving into a part-time role with the Investor Relations team.
Bronner will spearhead Riverside’s efforts to meet the needs of a growing base of international investors as head of a department that numbers seven individuals today and
Aquila Capital, the Hamburg-based alternative investment company, is expanding its position in the agricultural investment space with the appointment of seven highly-experienced ‘farmers who speak finance’.
The expanded team enables Aquila Capital to meet a growing demand for a globally diversified portfolio of agricultural investment solutions.
Aquila Capital has an advisory team whose background lies in farming rather than in the financial industry. The team is therefore strongly placed to provide high-level advice and insight into the fast developing trends in the global agricultural arena.
The expansion of its agricultural team is designed to widen Aquila Capital’s reach
Hogan Lovells has expanded its private equity practice with the hire of Lars Benger in Dusseldorf. He will join the firm in May 2012.
Benger was previously Counsel in the private equity team of Clifford Chance in Frankfurt. He has experience in working on M&A transactions for large and mid-cap private equity houses, in particular on complex cross-border leveraged buy-outs and advising strategic investors.
Recent high profile private equity transactions on which Hogan Lovells’ has advised include advising Gores on its USD85 million acquisition of Mexx from Liz Claiborne; Kelso Place Asset Management LLP on its acquisition of the
Stephen Hickey has joined CVC Credit Partners (CCP) as member of the Management Committee, Partner and Chief Risk Officer. He will be based in New York where he will have global responsibilities including chairing the newly formed Global Portfolio Committee, overseeing investments and the development of the firm’s business and products.
Hickey joins from Goldman Sachs where he spent 20 years in various senior roles including Global Head of Leverage Finance, Co-Head of Global Loans, Member of the Firmwide Risk and Firmwide Capital Committees and Head of Loan Sales and Secondary Trading (Proprietary Investing and Flow Trading). Steve had
Cordea Savills, the international property investment manager, has appointed John Claxon as a Director of Investment to lead the company’s expansion of its UK segregated mandate business.
Claxon, who will report to George Tindley (pictured), Executive Director and Head of Investment, UK, has 25 years’ experience of managing and advising real estate portfolios. He joins from BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management, where he was Head of the UK Investment Management Business. At BNP, he focused on segregated mandates and was discretionary manager for some major UK pension fund mandates, for which he delivered robust performance returns.
Tindley says: “I
Evercore Partners has appointed Steve Wellington as a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s investment banking business based in London, focusing on financial restructuring, distressed M&A and debt advisory.
Randolph Sesson has also agreed to join the firm’s Investment Banking business as a Senior Managing Director, also based in London, where he will be Head of European Transportation.
Wellington has specialised in financial restructuring advisory and leveraged finance underwriting for the past 16 years. He worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch from 1999 to 2012, most recently as Head of Restructuring Advisory EMEA where he advised a wide range
Doug Henderson has joined Oak Hill Advisors as Partner. Based in London, Henderson will lead the firm’s European performing credit business and enhance its established distressed capabilities.
Henderson has more than 25 years of experience and extensive relationships in the leveraged finance market, including the last 12 years in London. He joins OHA from Goldman, Sachs & Co, where he most recently served as Chairman of the European Credit Finance Group in the Investment Banking Division, with oversight of the firm’s EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Asia) loan, high yield, restructuring, structured finance and real estate finance businesses. In addition,
Fleming Family & Partners Private Equity, the private equity business of Fleming Family & Partners, has appointed two new Investment Directors.
Llewellyn John joins FF&P Private Equity from Nova Capital Management where he was Associate Partner having joined the firm in 2006. John was part of the Nova Capital team which worked with FF&P Private Equity on the very successful joint investment into EIS Optics, which the firm exited in October 2011 returning 3.5x investment to shareholders.
Whilst at Nova Capital he worked on a number of transactions including the GBP75m acquisition of Scientific Equipment from Barloworld, the
Pan-European private equity real estate investment manager Tristan Capital Partners has appointed Nik Haigh as a Director of Client Relations, where he will be specifically responsible for expanding the firm’s relationships with investors in the US and Canadian markets.
Haigh re-joins Tristan, having previously served with the Asset Management team of Tristan’s predecessor, Curzon Global Partners, from 2004 to 2009. Over the past three years Haigh led the European division for a major international not-for-profit, spearheading institutional and individual fundraising where he developed effective relationships with corporate, government, foundation, and high net worth partners. Haigh will be an integral part
Private equity firm HIG Capital has appointed Carl Harring as a Managing Director in its London office.
Harring joins HIG from HgCapital, where he led a number of small and medium-sized European LBOs. Before that, he spent nine years at Apax Partners in London, where he invested in a number of highly successful transactions across Europe.
Harring says: “I am very excited to join HIG The firm is a leader in its field and has a unique business model focused on providing deep operational and strategic resources, and a very flexible capital base which enables it to invest both
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