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FRANCE - CDC Capital Investissement hires three investors
CDC Capital Investissement (CDC CI) has poached three new investors from Sigefi, Ernst & Young and Natexis Investissement Partners.
UK - RJD Partners appoints new Investment Manager
RJD Partners has appointed Frank Bulman as Investment Manager.
FRANCE - Cabinet Bremont strengthens legal and turnaround teams
Law firm Cabinet Bremont has hired Virginie Verfaille-Chavaux and Dimitri Sonier to boost its legal and turnaround teams.
UK - Campbell Lutyens grows team by four
Private equity advisory firm Campbell Lutyens has announced the appointment of four new team members to its fund placement and secondary advisory teams.
CEE - ICG appoints head for Central and Eastern Europe
European mezzanine specialist Intermediate Capital Group has appointed Aleksander Marcin Ferenc as assistant director responsible for originating and executing deals in Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining ICG, he was investment director at Baring...
UK - Aureos Advisers appoints new head of group operations
Brigit van Dijk - van de Reijt has joined London-based Aureos Advisers, the fund advisory service to Aureos Capital.
UK - Aberdeen Asset Managers Growth Capital appoints Ryan Bevington
Aberdeen Asset Managers Growth Capital has appointed Ryan Bevington as a senior investment manager to its Northern team. Bevington will focus on new investment opportunities involving smaller UK companies requiring up to ТЃ4m of equity finance, including...
UK - Inflexion portfolio company Parasol appoints new chairman
Inflexion has appointed Ray Pierce as chairman of its employment services company Parasol Group. Pierce has been well known to Inflexion for a number of years most recently in his capacity as Chairman of Crown Sports which Inflexion sold in May 2006....
UK - Gresham strengthens its team with two appointments
Gresham has further strengthened its investment team by recruiting Iain Wolstenholme as investment director and Peter Lahoud as research and origination manager. Wolstenholme joins Gresham from Ernst & Young. His experience includes a wide variety of...
UK - Endless makes new appointment
Endless has recruited James Woolley as investment manager. He joins Endless from the corporate finance and restructuring department of Ernst & Young.
GERMANY - White & Case strengthens Frankfurt team
White & Case has appointed Dr Benedikt Gillessen as partner to join its Capital Markets team in Frankfurt from March 2007. Gillessen joins from Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer where during his eight year tenure he focused on equity capital markets and especially...
UK - DLJ Merchant Banking Partners makes new appointments
DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (DLJMBP), the private equity affiliate of Credit Suisse, has appointed Allen M Yurko as an industrial partner. Based in London, he will work with Colin Taylor, managing director and head of DLJMBP Europe.
NL - Bencis Capital Partners appoints new partner
Menno van der Meer has joined Bencis Capital Partners as a partner as of 1 February. He will operate from the firm's Amsterdam office.
GERMANY - Earlybird strengthens technology team
Earlybird has appointed Gayathri Radhakrishnan as an associate focusing on technology investments. In addition, the venture capital firm has brought the total number of partners to six by promoting Wolfgang Seibold and Thom Rasche.
UK - Amadeus Capital portfolio company Cambridge Broadband appoints new chairman
Cambridge Broadband, a developer of carrier-class cellular backhaul solutions backed by Amadeus Capital, Accel Partners, TVM Capital and Adara Ventures has appointed John Cronin as the company's new chairman. He succeeds Herman Hauser, a founding partner...
SPAIN - Doughty Hanson boosts its real estate team
Fernando San Juan has recently joined Doughty Hanson's real estate team in Madrid.
UK - Endless recruits Nick Leitch to lead new Birmingham office
Endless, the buyout and turnaround fund focused on UK-headquartered businesses, is to open up a new office in Birmingham and has recruited Nick Leitch for the position of investment director to lead the office. The office, which is due to open in March...
UK - Capital Dynamics appoints Andrew Beaton and David Smith
Capital Dynamics has appointed Andrew Beaton and David Smith. Beaton and Smith had previously established GE Equity Europeтs co-investment business as well as the dedicated co-investment specialist Glenalta Capital LLP.
FRANCE - Bryan, Garnier & Co appoints new hardware and telecommunications director
European investment bank Bryan, Garnier & Co has announced the appointment of Olivier Beaudouin as a director in charge of hardware and telecommunications.
UK - Sir David Arculus joins August Equity portfolio company
August Equity's super yacht magazine publisher Boat International Media Ltd has appointed Sir David Arculus as its chairman. Arculus is currently a non-executive director at O2 Plc, Telefonica Plc and Pearson Plc. He was chairman of O2 from 2004 until...
UK - Pantheon strengthens client services team
Pantheon has made two appointments to its client services team. Marcus Alexis joins as US head of client services and Josephine Defty joins the European client services team. Alexis was formerly at Wellington Management Company.
UK - Ingenious backs dance act the Prodigy in £2m deal
Ingenious' two music VCTs have made a joint investment of ТЃ2m to support the release of dance act the Prodigyтs fifth studio album. With a further six deals in the final stages of negotiation, Ingenious Music VCT Plc is now approaching full commitment,...
UK - Smedvig Capital appoints David Mills to portfolio company
Smedvig Capital has appointed David Mills as the new non-executive chairman of portfolio company My Home Move Plc, the home conveyancing company. Smedvig backed the ТЃ5m management buyout of My Home Move in December 2005. In 2006 the business grew 42%...
UK - 3i makes high profile appointment in gas & power sector
3i has strengthened its gas and power team with the appointment of Ian Russell, the former CEO of Scottish Power Plc, as an industrialist in residence. Russell brings a wealth of experience and knowledge of the energy and finance markets to 3i, having...