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SPAIN - Livingstone Partners appoints new partner
Livingstone Partners has appointed Bill McDonald as partner.
UK - Bridges hires CFO
Bridges Ventures has hired Rory Maw as chief financial officer.
UK - Aberdeen executives create Spirit Capital
The senior executives of Aberdeen Asset Managers Private Equity, a subsidiary of Aberdeen Asset Management Plc, have completed a buyout of the business and re-branded as Spirit Capital Partners LLP.
UK - BDO hires McDaid
BDO Stoy Hayward has hired Neil McDaid as a debt advisory director within its corporate finance team.
GLOBAL - HIG appoints former Apax exec
HIG Capital has appointed Tim Armstrong as managing director.
UK - HSBC Private Equity hires investment manager
HSBC Private Equity has hired Basil Sakellis as investment manager.
UK - Darwin hires Katie Beck
Darwin Private Equity has hired Katie Beck to its investment team.
SPAIN - Catalana d'Initiatives appoints director
Catalana d’Initiatives has appointed Alfredo Gatius as director of investments.
UK/GERMANY – Wellington Partners hires Daniel Waterhouse
Wellington Partners has strengthened its presence in London with the appointment of the former Yahoo! manager and 3i sector partner Daniel Waterhouse.
UK - Cardano hires private equity specialist
Cardano, a manager of pension fund assets, has hired Anna Dayn to its investment management team.
GERMANY - Target Partners hires associate
Target Partners has hired Christian Thaler-Wolski as a new associate.
UK - Sovereign promotes partners
Sovereign Capital has promoted Dominic Dalli, David Myers and Kevin Whittle to partner.
UK - Hipperson joins KKR
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & CO (KKR) has appointed Simon Hipperson to its infrastructure investment team.
RUSSIA - Aurora Russia appoints new chairman
Aurora Russia has appointed Dan Collinson Koch as its new chairman.
GLOBAL - Lehman Brothers restructures management team
Lehman Brothers is restructuring its management team, appointing Eric Felder and Hyung Soon Lee as global co-heads of fixed income to replace Andrew Morton, who is leaving the firm after just seven months in the position.
UK - Goldman Sachs appoints Allen as adviser
Goldman Sachs Capital Partners has appointed Charles Allen, former chief executive of ITV, as a senior adviser.
UK - DFJ hires venture partner
DFJ Esprit has hired William Reeves as venture partner in its London office.
UK - Dunedin hires analyst
Dunedin has hired Simon Rowan as analyst.
SWEDEN - GP Bullhound recruits two
Investment bank GP Bullhound has hired Andreas Zartmann as director and Carl Bergholtz as analyst.
UK - Kirkland & Ellis hires new partner
Kirkland & Ellis International has hired Jane Scobie as a partner in the tax practice group.
UK - Brown Rudnick hires new partner
Brown Rudnick has hired Sonya Van de Graaff as partner.
Germany - TVM promotes Schuster
Munich-based venture capital house TVM Capital has promoted Steffen Schuster to general partner.
Germany/China - Freshfields re-posts private equity partner
Freshfields Bruckhuas Deringer will relocate Dr Heiner Braun, one of its Frankfurt-based private equity partners, to its Shanghai office on 8 September 2008.
UK - Phil Greves to launch Elysian in the North
Former 3i director Phil Greves has been appointed to set up the first office in the North of England for Elysian Capital.