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Octopus Investments has hired Simon Reynolds into its Multi Manager team. He will be working alongside fund managers Colin Lunnon and Bish Limbu and will be adding to the idea generation and research process across all asset classes. He will gradually take over some of the day to day portfolio management responsibilities in support of Colin and Bish.
Reynolds joins from the Australian multi manager Ipac, part of the AXA Group. Simon began his career at Mercer before joining AXA’s multi manager team in 2002. Before leaving for Australia in 2005, Simon worked alongside Colin and Bish in the Barclays
ECI Partners (ECI), the UK mid-market private equity firm, has invested in CarTrawler, the Dublin-based provider of online car rental distribution systems. In addition, Mike McGearty, the former COO of CarTrawler, has been announced as the new Chief Executive who will lead the next stage of the business’s development.
Bobby Healy will continue as the company’s CTO and Niall Turley will remain Director of Supply. The funding from ECI will be used to support the continued growth of CarTrawler organically and through acquisition and Chris Watt, Director at ECI, will join the board. Richard Prosser will join the board
James Metcalfe, the global head of power and utilities investment banking at UBS AG, is joining Alinda Capital Partners, a leading infrastructure investment firm, as its seventh Partner.
Metcalfe will work alongside Alinda Partner, Graeme Bevans, to focus on core infrastructure investments.
Core infrastructure investments are a new strategy for Alinda, which has previously focused on value added infrastructure investments.
Bevans joined Alinda in July 2010 from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, where he was head of infrastructure investing. Since joining Alinda, Bevans has focused on developing core infrastructure strategies for the firm.
Investments in utilities and
Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets has strengthened its Acquisition Finance team in the North West with the appointment of director, Matt Widdall.
Widdall joins the bank from Deloitte’s corporate finance advisory practice in Manchester where he gained 12 years experience advising on company acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, restructurings, and debt and equity finance raising transactions.
During this time, Widdall advised on a number of high profile private equity-backed deals, including Endless LLP’s investment in Darwen manufacturer, Crown Paints.
He will join Neil Price and Kerry Morley at the firm’s Manchester office, where he will work closely with sponsors and management teams
Carey Olsen senior associate David Crosland (pictured) was called to the Guernsey Bar last month having passed his Bar exams to become an advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey.
Crosland is a member of Carey Olsen’s corporate group where he undertakes a wide range of corporate transactions, with a particular focus on private equity, and the launch, administration, restructuring and listing of both closed and open-ended investment funds. As well as private equity funds, he has advised funds listed on the LSE, AIM, Euronext and the CISX.
Prior to joining Carey Olsen in 2007, Crosland trained at Clifford Chance
Deloitte has appointed Bob Contri as leader of its financial services industry group in the United States. Contri currently serves as Deloitte’s leader to the banking and securities sector.
Contri succeeds Jim Reichbach, who held the role for the last three years. Reichbach will now serve as senior leader to several of Deloitte’s most important financial services clients and as leader of Deloitte’s global banking and securities practice.
“We are in a unique time, as the strategies that financial institutions undertake today will determine who the leaders are tomorrow,” says Contri. “Whether it is regulatory reform, sweeping changes to the
Lloyd A Sprung has agreed to join the Evercore Partner’s Investment Banking business as a Senior Managing Director. Sprung, who will be based in New York, will focus on advising clients on debt capital markets and corporate restructuring transactions.
Sprung was most recently a Managing Director at Miller Buckfire & Co where he was responsible for leading restructuring, financing and strategic advisory assignments across a variety of industries. With over 17 years of capital markets and restructuring experience, Sprung has advised on numerous significant transactions, notably representing Interstate Bakeries on its bankruptcy restructuring—the Turnaround Management Association Large Company Transaction of
The Honorable R James (Jim) Woolsey and Richard (Dick) Foster have joined venture capital firm, Lux Capital as Venture Partners. Woolsey will help identify novel breakthroughs and new investment opportunities in Energy that offer significant economic and environmental benefits, and can help end America’s addiction to foreign energy resources. Foster will leverage his experience and network to seek new technologies and business models for Life Sciences and healthcare IT investment.
“We are excited to bring Jim and Dick onto the Lux Capital team,” says Josh Wolfe, Managing Partner at Lux Capital. “Both are first-rate individuals, experts with tremendous intellect and
Carne Global Financial Services has appointed Roisin Cater as an independent director for the boards of client funds in the Cayman Islands.
Cater is a highly experienced Cayman Islands lawyer with an extensive track record in the funds business, including with law firm Mourant, where she was Managing Partner, and the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX), where she worked as a Senior Listing Executive. She was appointed to the board of the CSX in 2007, and is also a member of the listing committee, reviewing and approving listing requests. She originally trained with Linklaters London.
John Donohoe, Chief Executive of
Jeffrey A Legault has joined Goodwin Procter’s Business Law Department in its Private Equity Practice. Legault will be based in Goodwin’s New York office and his practice will focus on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. He joins Goodwin from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, where he had practiced since 2005.
Legault has advised a wide range of clients, including private equity firms, large corporate entities, both public and private, and global investment banks. Prior to his work at Cadwalader, Legault worked in Shearman & Sterling LLP’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group.
“Jeff will be a great
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