Burrill, a San Francisco-based firm specialising in life sciences, has announced the promotions of Tiba Aynechi to director, merchant banking, Garrett Vygantas to director, venture capi

Foresight Group, the independent alternative asset manager, has announced the promotion of Russell Healey to partner.

MassMutual subsidiary Babson Capital Management, an investment management firm based in Springfield and Boston, Massachusetts and Charlotte, North Carolina, has added four team members

Early-stage venture capital firm vSpring Capital has announced that analyst Jon Walker has been promoted to manager of marketing and investor relations for the Salt Lake City-based firm

Early-stage venture capital firm Charles River Ventures has announced that Hassan Ahmed has joined the firm as a senior adviser.

Piper Jaffray has appointed Michael Coyne to lead the firm’s transportation and logistics business. Coyne joins Piper Jaffray as a managing director and will work out of the firm’s New York office. He will report to Larry Zimmerman who recently joined the firm as the head of industrials and financial sponsor coverage business.   Coyne brings more than 13 years’ experience to Piper Jaffray where he advised in deals with public and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged finance investment grade debt and restructuring and convertible securities. Coyne joins Piper Jaffray after serving as an independent consultant for public logistic

BMO Capital Markets, the investment and corporate banking arm of BMO Financial Group, has hired senior investment banker Eric Luftig as managing director in its leveraged finance group.

KKR has appointed Arthur Brohinsky, former executive vice president of SmartOps, as a director responsible for leading the firm’s Lean Six Sigma efforts.

Offshore law firm Mourant du Feu & Jeune has announced a further two promotions to senior associate level as the firm looks to strengthen its funds and trust litigation practice are

SMH Capital has announced that Stephen P. Hines has joined the firm as a managing director in its investment banking practice in New York.