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Law firm Sidley Austin has appointed Alyssa A. Grikscheit as a partner in the Latin America and investment funds, advisers and derivatives practices.
She will be based in the New York office and will focus on cross-border transactions and alternative investment funds.
Grikscheit has significant experience representing clients in Latin American, emerging market and other cross-border transactions, including M&A, joint ventures and fund formation.
“Alyssa brings considerable experience in cross-border transactions in emerging and developed markets and fund formation, particularly for funds involving international investments and alternative asset classes,” says Carlos A. Rodriguez, a partner in the firm’s Latin America
C.M. Capital has appointed finance and investment veteran Bruce W. Madding as president and chief investment officer.
Madding has had a long career in finance, accounting, investment and asset management, including 22 years with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation in Palo Alto, California, most recently as chief financial and investment officer.
"We are extremely fortunate to add Bruce as President of our executive team," says John C. Couch, chief executive of C.M. Capital. "His asset management skills and financial acumen are well-known throughout the investment community and will be invaluable to our clients, while his leadership and management expertise
Investment manager Insynergy has appointed Nicola Large as commercial director.
Working closely with chief executive and founder Spike Hughes, Large will have lead responsibility for managing the investment manager’s commercial and financial affairs.
With ten years of financial services experience, she will oversee the evolution of the firm’s developing corporate structure and ensure the highest quality reporting standards.
Large joins Insynergy from emerging markets focused private equity firm Actis, where she was an analyst in the investor development group. Focusing primarily on the African private equity and global infrastructure segments of the business, her responsibilities included the analysis of investment
Ian Pearson, the former Treasury and Business Minister and chief executive of a private equity and consultancy company, has been appointed as a senior adviser to Maven Capital Partners.
Maven is an independent private equity business which was established just over 12 months ago following a buy-out from Aberdeen Asset Management.
Pearson will work with Maven’s managing partner Bill Nixon to expand the business, which has offices in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Manchester, Birmingham and London.
“Small and medium sized businesses are the life-blood of the UK economy and providing growth capital to support their development is an important way of securing
Equity Risk Partners, an insurance brokerage and consulting firm focused exclusively on the private equity industry, has expanded its Chicago-based team with the addition of Brian Stratton as director – business development.
Stratton will be responsible for building and managing client relationships primarily within the firm’s employee benefits practice.
Stratton joins from Mercer, a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, where as a principal in the client development group he provided employee benefit consulting services to private equity firms and Fortune 500 companies. In his decade-long career at Mercer, he held a number of increasing management positions focused on new client
Atlantic-Pacific Capital, a placement agent and advisory firm, has appointed Sarah McFadden Sandström as a partner in its private funds business.
As part of the project management and advisory team, Sandström will work closely with general partner clients on positioning and executing institutional capital raises for funds based in Europe.
"Atlantic-Pacific immediately impressed me as being the most highly motivated team in the industry. The firm’s successes over the last two years in a difficult fundraising environment are a testament to teamwork, determination and a focused approach," says Sandström.
“Sarah’s global expertise is the perfect addition to our established
Venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners has appointed Manish Patel as a principal.
Based in Highland’s Menlo Park office, Patel will expand Highland’s reach into Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial community and help identify and work with the next crop of start-ups.
Patel joins Highland from Google where he has held diverse product management and executive management roles. His experience ranged from serving as a lead product manager for Google’s advanced imagery and 3D mapping initiatives to helping grow the company’s advertising and syndication efforts into billion dollar businesses. He was also the product manager responsible for launching the first search and
Telecoms industry veteran Chris Wade has been named executive chairman of VC-Net by the UK’s video conferencing and telecoms solutions provider and its backers MMC Ventures.
Wade says: “We are seeing the rise of the ‘smarter corporate’ who use video conferencing to create globally integrated businesses. As a result VC-Net’s current sales pipeline is more than 100 per cent greater than 12 months ago.
“Video conferencing technologies have progressed significantly and are now a really viable alternative to travel which is saving budget in a time when cost cutting is a top priority. It also allows corporates to respond to
IK Investment Partners, a Pan-European private equity firm, has appointed Kai Wärn as partner with future responsibility for strategy, operations and business control.
He is currently chief executive of Swedish-listed company Seco Tool and will begin at IK in January 2011.
Wärn will be based in IK’s Stockholm office.
Wärn has more than 25 years’ experience in the industry. He began his career with ABB where he spent nearly 20 years holding various senior international positions including roles in Belgium, Germany and the UK. Most recently he was responsible for the business unit robotics.
Following his departure from ABB in
Energy Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in North America’s energy infrastructure, has hired Rahman D’Argenio as a principal in the firm’s Short Hills, New Jersey office.
D’Argenio will be responsible for leading new investments as well as monitoring portfolio company activity across all of the firm’s major areas of investment focus in fossil and renewable power generation, midstream gas and electric transmission.
D’Argenio joins Energy Capital after having spent the past seven years with the First Reserve where he was most recently a director in the firm’s Greenwich, Connecticut office. His responsibilities at First Reserve included
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