Harris Williams & Co has appointed Michael Wilkins as a managing director leading the firm’s Technology, Telecom & Digital Media (TTDM) Group’s efforts on the West Coast in the US.   Wilkins joins the firm with a wide range of experience and industry knowledge as well as strong relationships with strategic buyers and leading private equity and venture capital groups worldwide.   Prior to joining Harris Williams & Co, Wilkins was a managing director at Sagent Advisors where he co-founded the firm’s technology practice. During his time at Sagent, Wilkins headed the internet and digital media practice covering the online

Sean E Murphy has joined Evercore Partners’ Investment Banking business as a Senior Advisor. Murphy, who will be based in Chicago, will focus on advising clients in the health care industry. Murphy was most recently a Corporate Vice President and Head of Business Development and Mergers and Acquisitions at Abbott Laboratories, Inc. His career at Abbott spanned three decades, including operations management, such as running the vascular business after the acquisition of Perclose, and leading Abbott’s external development effort for ten years. In that capacity, Murphy led over USD30 billion in transactions across the pharmaceutical, medical technology, diagnostics, and nutrition

UK-based private equity firm Electra Partners has added Chris Hanna as an investment partner. Hanna, who joined 1 September, joins from Phoenix Equity Partners where his investments included Nationwide Autocentres, NFT, ASCO and Ashtead Technology Rentals. Hanna will work alongside Alex Fortescue and the other Investment Partners in investing Electra Partners’ GBP350 million investment capacity in what the company expects to be a very good period for investing. Alex Fortescue, Chief Investment Partner of Electra Partners, says: “I am delighted to welcome Chris to Electra Partners. He brings great experience and a successful track record. We have a very talented

F&C Investments, the London-listed GBP108 billion asset management group, has hired Stuart Hastie as an Associate Director with responsibility for business development in its Edinburgh-headquartered private equity funds team. Hastie’s role includes investor relations, fund raising and new product development. Hastie joins F&C with 15-years experience in the investment and banking industries. Immediately prior to joining F&C he spent four years with Lloyds Banking Group as a relationship manager with responsibility for the origination and monitoring of private equity and loan funds. He has previously worked in project finance roles in New York for both ING and HBOS, having begun

Ray LaSoya has joined US law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan as a Partner, with immediate effect. LaSoya will be resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office and will serve as the National Chair of Stroock’s Private Equity Practice Group. LaSoya has worked on a variety of complex corporate transactions, including tender offers, acquisitions and divestitures, public offerings and private equity investments.  He counsels clients in the areas of public disclosure, reporting and corporate governance.  He represents both public and private companies, including private equity investors and their portfolio companies, in their day-to-day legal affairs and in transactions across

Andy Miller (pictured) has joined the Highland Capital Partners as a General Partner. Based in Highland’s Menlo Park office, Miller will work to partner with the most promising mobile and technology companies in the Valley. Miller joins Highland from Apple Inc, where he reported directly to Steve Jobs and was Vice President, Mobile Advertising. At Apple, he headed up the iAd team, the mobile advertising network for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad line of mobile devices. Previously, Miller was the Co-Founder and CEO of Quattro Wireless, the mobile advertising company that was seeded by Highland and ultimately acquired by

Louis S Caiola, Jr has joined Dome Equities as a partner responsible for distribution of the firm’s real estate private equity offerings. Previously, Caiola was a Senior Vice President at UBS and a Director at Deutsche Bank where he advised high net worth, family office and institutional clients on investment strategies. Prior to UBS and DB, he was a Principal in the Institutional Equities department of Thomas Weisel Partners. "We are extremely pleased to have Lou join our team as a Partner at Dome Equities," says Managing Partner Eric Jones. "Lou’s experience with high net worth and family office investors

TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has appointed Jeffrey A Del Papa as a Senior Vice President in the Services Group.  He will focus on recapitalisations, management-led buyouts and growth capital investments in business services companies. Del Papa joins TA from Thoma Bravo, where he served as a Vice President, originating, evaluating and executing investments and consolidations in the software sector. He was previously an Associate with Summit Partners, focused primarily on investments in the software, healthcare, consumer and financial services sectors.  He also served as an Analyst with UBS Investment Bank. Del Papa received a BS in Finance from