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Securities and investment banking firm Jefferies has appointed Kamlesh Bhatia as a managing director responsible for private placement origination within the firm’s equity capital markets group.
Bhatia brings to Jefferies more than ten years of investment banking experience, including five years in the equity capital market groups at Piper Jaffray and Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he originated, structured and executed over USD3bn of privately negotiated equity and equity-linked transactions for public and private clients.
Prior to this, Bhatia spent four years in investment banking at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Credit Suisse First Boston.
“Kamlesh Bhatia’s expertise in
Starwood Capital Group, a private equity firm focused on real estate and energy investing, is hiring Rodolfo Senra and Vitor Senra to open the firm’s first office in Brazil headquartered in Sao Paolo.
As directors of Starwood Capital do Brasil, the two executives will be responsible for expanding Starwood’s presence in Brazil, leading its acquisition and asset management activities there and managing the Brazil asset management group.
Rodolfo and Vitor Senra both join Starwood Capital do Brazil from Sollers Investimentos, a Brazilian real estate investment firm focused on the office, warehouse and residential markets. The two men founded the firm
Investment banking firm Evercore Partners has appointed Lincoln C. Singleton as a managing director in the firm’s private funds group.
Singleton will be based in Evercore’s New York office where he will be responsible for managing the group’s relationships with limited partners in the south-east and Texas.
Previously, he was a managing director at Durham Asset Management, the distressed credit manager, where he played a significant role in increasing its assets under management from USD420m to USD1.35bn.
Singleton’s appointment strengthens Evercore’s private funds group in North America and builds on the recent hire of Christian von Massenbach as a vice
Castle Harlan’s president Justin Wender has resigned from the firm and its associated companies, effective immediately.
The New York private equity investment firm has appointed Howard Morgan and Bill Pruellage, two of its senior managing directors, as co-presidents.
Morgan and Pruellage will assume all the responsibilities formerly handled by Wender.
Castle Harlan says: "This management realignment is an important step in the evolution of the leadership of our firm and partnership. Morgan and Pruellage have 40 years of combined investment experience. In addition to sharing the role of President, Morgan and Pruellage will continue to actively lead investments for the
The Blackstone Group has appointed Dr Robert Galvin as chief executive officer of Equity Healthcare.
Equity Healthcare is Blackstone’s health management programme which aims to improve quality and contain costs in providing healthcare to the employees and their families of private equity portfolio companies.
Currently Equity Healthcare encompasses 34 companies, the combined healthcare spending of which exceeds USD2bn annually.
Before joining Blackstone, Galvin was executive director of health services and chief medical officer for General Electric for 15 years. There he was in charge of the design and financial and clinical performance of GE’s health programmes. He was also responsible
Okapi Partners, the proxy solicitation firm, has hired Geoff Sorbello as a managing director.
Sorbello joins Okapi Partners from ISS, a division of RiskMetrics Group which is now a subsidiary of MSCI.
While at ISS, Sorbello was responsible for providing governance services and advice, including M&A research, to the firm’s hedge fund clients. Sorbello worked closely with the firm’s proxy advisory services group, actively participating in dialogue regarding contentious mergers and acquisitions and proxy fights. Additionally, Sorbello managed relationships with many of the firm’s institutional investor clients.
Bruce H. Goldfarb (pictured), president and chief executive of Okapi Partners, says: "Geoff
Black Diamond Capital Management, an alternative asset management firm, has appointed Philip Raygorodetsky as managing director.
Raygorodetsky is joining the firm immediately and will be based in Black Diamond’s Greenwich, Connecticut office.
Raygorodetsky joins Black Diamond’s controlled distressed/private equity team, where he will work alongside the current senior team, including Chris Boyle and Chris Parker, to oversee portfolio companies acquired on behalf of Black Diamond’s controlled distressed/private equity funds.
Raygorodetsky has over 13 years’ experience in the controlled distressed field. Most recently, he served as senior managing director in GSC Group’s equity and distressed debt group where he was responsible
Arsenal Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm that invests in middle market industrial, healthcare and financial services companies, has appointed Stephen M. McLean as a partner.
McLean will strengthen Arsenal’s seven-member healthcare practice, help shape the sector investment strategy, and lead the sourcing, evaluation and management of investments.
McLean, a founding partner of Merrill Lynch Capital Partners and its successor funds, has also been an active investor and board member in the healthcare industry for the past 13 years focusing on the areas of life sciences, medical devices and information services.
"Steve has an exceptional track record of
Equity Risk Partners, an insurance brokerage and consulting firm focused exclusively on the needs of the private equity industry, has appointed Joseph Fitzpatrick as director – executive liability.
Fitzpatrick will focus his efforts on the firm’s financial institutions practice group, specifically on the brokering and servicing of hedge funds, mutual funds, alternative asset managers and other financial lines.
Fitzpatrick joins from Frank Crystal, where he was an associate director specialising in professional and management liability insurance products for major hedge fund managers including structured credit, event-driven arbitrage, global macro, real estate, equity long-short, emerging markets, activist funds and fund of
Law firm Dechert has appointed M. Holland West, a private funds and derivatives lawyer, as a partner in the financial services practice group in New York.
West was previously at Shearman & Sterling, where he was the head of its global hedge fund, private equity, derivatives and structured finance practices.
He was also previously a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft where he was the head of its asset management and derivatives practices, and an assistant general counsel at Goldman Sachs advising its capital markets, derivatives, and commodity businesses.
“Holland’s three decades of experience as a Wall Street lawyer adds
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