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UK - John Browne joins Apax advisory board
John Browne, the former chief executive of BP, has joined Apax Partners as chairman of its advisory board.
UK - Boyden strengthens team
Boyden Interim Management Ltd has strengthened its UK team with the creation of a key senior position. John Bloor has been appointed director of restructuring and turnaround, reflecting the gathering momentum of demand for Boyden's input to business recovery....
UK - Phoenix Equity Partners promotes Chris Hanna to partner
Phoenix Equity Partners has promoted Chris Hanna to the position of partner.
UK - Corbett Keeling appoints Vincent Thompson
Corbett Keeling has appointed Vincent Thompson as an associate. Thompson qualified as an accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell in 1978 and has since worked for the corporate finance division of Morgan Grenfell and Hambros Bank. In 2003, he joined the...
UK - Sovereign Capital announces promotions
Sovereign Capital has promoted two members of its team, Jose Rodriguez and Paul Egan, to the position of assistant director. Egan joined Sovereign Capital in June 2005 and has extensive experience of the business to business support services sector.
FRANCE - OFI Private Equity recruits CADIF debt specialist
OFI Private Equity has announced it has hired Erwann Le Ligne as investment executive.
GERMANY - Faegre & Benson boosts Frankfurt office
Law firm Faegre & Benson has hired corporate partner Markus Wenserski from fellow US firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher to join its Frankfurt office. Wenserski specialises in private equity and M&A and had been a partner at Willkie since 2004.
GLOBAL - SJBerwin loses three partners to Kirkland & Ellis
SJ Berwin LLP has announced that three private equity partners, Mark Mifsud, Richard Watkins and Justin Dolling, will move to rival law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLPтs fund formation team.
UK - Mark Barrow leaves Close Brothers Corporate Finance
Unquoteт can reveal that Close Brothers Corporate Finance has lost Mark Barrow, a director and head of Close Brothers' private equity coverage team. Barrow joined Close in 1996 and had been made head of the team in March 2005. Darren Redmayne, co-founder...
UK - Phoenix Equity Partners appoints John Rastrick
Phoenix Equity Partners has appointed John Rastrick to its team. Rastrick will have specific responsibility for Phoenix's activities and investments in the North of England, where he will be based.
UK - AIG expands its European leveraged loan group
AIG Global Investment Group has further strengthened its European leveraged loan group, with the appointment of Margarita Sabarny and Rebecca Reeve to its London office.
UK - AlixPartners names three new London managing directors
AlixPartners, the international corporate turnaround, performance improvement and financial advisory firm, has promoted three of its London team to the position of managing director: Laura Barlow, Andrew Grantham and David Hutchinson. The three professionals...
GERMANY - Waterland appoints care sector adviser
Waterland Private Equity Investments has appointed Ir B F Dessing as industry expert to advise the investment team with its investment decisions in the care sector.
UK - Double appointment at MTI Partners
MTI Partners, the technology venture capital investor has made two new appointments. Sarah Bates joins the board of MTI as a non-executive director. Bates, who has a BA in Law from Cambridge University and an MBA from the London Business School, worked...
UK - Enterprise Ventures appoints John Simpson
Enterprise Ventures, the Northern-based venture capital company, has appointed John Simpson as finance director and as executive director to the boards of Enterprise Ventures Ltd and Enterprise Ventures Group Ltd.
UK - Sullivan & Cromwell appoints Tim Emmerson as partner
Sullivan & Cromwell has elected Tim Emmerson as a partner of the firm. He will join its London office during the first quarter of 2007.
UK - Vision Capital appoints chairman to portfolio of food businesses
Vision Capital has announced the appointment of Gareth Voyle as chairman of the portfolio of food businesses it has agreed to acquire from Northern Foods. The appointment follows the announcement on 22nd November of exchange of contracts for the acquisition...
UK - NESTA looks to private sector to aid distribution of £50m fund for start-ups
The new NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts) ТЃ50m fund for start-ups is to be overseen by a team drawn primarily from the private sector. The committee, which includes Apax partner, Adrian Beecroft and MTI CEO and managing partner,...
GERMANY - New principal at Waterland Private Equity
Waterland Private Equity Investments has appointed Jörg Dreisow as principal of its German branch. He had previously been investment director and will now co-lead a team of six.
SPAIN - Latham & Watkins to launch operations in Spain
US law firm Latham & Watkins announced Monday that it will open offices in Madrid and Barcelona on 1 January.
UK - Maxwell leaves Standard Life following dispute over SLIPE's future
Industry veteran Jonny Maxwell has left Standard Life Investments Private Equity, citing disagreements over the future of the division which he set up.
NL- Gilde Buy Out Partners hires three new team members
Gilde Buy Out Partners has announced that it has strengthened its team with three hires.
FRANCE - CVC hires industrial expert for its Paris office
CVC Capital Partners has announced the appointment of Patrick Verschelde as industrial partner in Paris.
UK - PPM Capital appoints new chairman for Paramount Restaurants
PPM Capital has appointed a new chairman to portfolio company Paramount Restaurants. John Conlan, the founder of First Leisure Plc and Chorion Plc, and more recently chairman of Barrucuda Plc, the managed pubs and bars business formerly backed by PPM...