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UK - Addleshaw beefs up funds practice
Law firm Addleshaw Goddard has made two appointments to its London funds team.
FINLAND - EQT recruits new partner and Finland head
Thomas Ramsay has been appointed partner in the equity business line and head of EQT Partners in Finland.
UK - David Ward joins South Yorkshire Investment Fund
David Ward has been appointed as investment manager at South Yorkshire Investment Fund (SYIF).
FRANCE – Crédit Argicole strengthens team
Crédit Argicole Private Equity has strengthened its team by recruiting Frantz Paulus as investment director in their co-investment team.
NORWAY - Nordic Capital recruits new Norwegian partner
Tom Vidar Rygh has joined Nordic Capital as a partner. He will be responsible for Nordic Capital’s focus in Norway where the GP is looking to source more deals going forward.
SPAIN – Proa pulls out of bid; recruits new partner
Proa Capital, yet to officially open its doors, has decided to pull out of the auction for biscuit manufacturer Marbú Dorada y Chiquilín, currently owned by US multinational Kraft.
FRANCE – Advent International grows team
Advent International has recruited Alice Escoffier as assistant director. Escoffier joined Advent from 3i where she worked for four years in the buyouts team.
CEE - White & Case opens in Bucharest
White & Case has opened an office in Bucharest, headed by Todd Shollenbarger. He formerly led the southeast Europe practice group at Linklaters before moving to private equity firm KD Private Equity as the head of its Bucharest office. He leads a team...
CEE - Clifford Chance opens an office in Kiev
Clifford Chance, the world's largest law firm, will open an office in Kiev later this year.
UK - Zeus appoints new investment director
Zeus Private Equity has appointed Jonny Allatt as investment director in its southern team.
UK – Hawkpoint names new energy and power team
Hawkpoint has appointed a new team to specialise in the energy and power sectors.
UK - Infinity appoints property specialists
Infinity Asset Management has appointed two property specialists to its newly established £100m property fund.
FRANCE - Weinberg Capital Partners strengthens team
Weinberg Capital Partners has appointed Benoît Guigou as an analyst. Guigou joins Weinberg CP after three years at Ernst & Young.
CEE - CVC recruits Istvan Szoke
CVC has recruited Istvan Szoke to build its business in Central and Eastern Europe. The nomination will be effective from April 2008.
UK - Palamon appoints new VP
Palamon Capital Partners has appointed Valerio Boccardi as a Vice President.
GERMANY - Granville Baird bolsters Hamburg team
Moritz Freiherr Schenck and Matthias Zillmer have joined the Hamburg office of Granville Baird as partners.
LUXEMBOURG - NautaDutilh appoints two new partners
Benelux law firm NautaDutilh has appointed Jean-Marc Groelly and Jean-Michel Schmit as partners in the firm’s Luxembourg office.
UK - Nova appoints new investment partner
Nova Capital Management has announced that Mike Nevin has joined the team as an investment partner. Previously chief financial officer of Hi-Tec Sports Group, Nevin started his career with Deloitte, later working in Transaction Services at PriceWaterhouseCoopers....
FINLAND – Martin Grotenfelt to become partner at Intera Equity Partners
Martin Grotenfelt has join Intera Equity Partners as a partner. He joins the firm from Altor Equity Partners where he has worked on deals including Dynapac, PaloDEx and PIAB. Prior to joining Altor in 2003, he worked at the Boston Consulting Group in...
UK - Ingram Forrest makes two new appointments
Ingram Forrest Corporate Finance, the independent corporate finance arm of Barber Harrison & Platt, has announced two new appointments. Don Gray who was previously a corporate finance director in the firm has recently been promoted to partner and John...
FRANCE – Chequers Capital strengthens team
Chequers Capital has appointed four new associates. Axelle Dumousset and Xavier Morion both previously worked in the structured finance department of Société Générale since 2005. Xavier Poitevineau was previously working in BNP Paribas’ M&A and...
UK - Parish Capital hires Catherine Lewis La Torre as venture partner
Parish Capital Advisors has expanded its capabilities in Europe with the hiring of Catherine Lewis La Torre. Lewis La Torre, formerly a co-founder of the Finnish fund-of-funds group Proventure, has joined Parish Capital as a venture partner.
FINLAND - Borenius & Kemppinen announces three promotions
Borenius & Kemppinen has announced three promotions in its tax division.
UK - Latham & Watkins appoints Daniel Maze to leveraged finance team
Latham & Watkins has announced that Daniel Maze will join the firm’s London office as a partner in the Finance Department, effective from 1 March. Maze specialises in acquisition finance, including senior finance, second lien and mezzanine facilities,...