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UK - Endless hires Indra Valeinis as investment executive
Endless LLP has recruited Indra Valeinis as investment executive. Valeinis is the tenth hire to the transaction team at Endless LLP since its inception in December 2005. She began her career in 2000 with Arthur Andersen and has also worked at Deloitte....
FRANCE - EdRIP appoints life science partner and recruits three staff
Paris-based Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (EdRIP) has recruited three additional staff and secured a new venture partnership. Olivier Litzka has been appointed as co-director of the life science team, while Laurent Toutois and Sophie Nordmann...
UK - Close Growth Capital appoints Justin Slabbert as associate
Close Growth Capital (CGC) has appointed Justin Slabbert as an associate. Slabbert joins CGC from Bearing Power, a multi-national industrial distribution company where he was director for business development. He previously worked in the private equity...
SPAIN - Catalana d'Iniciatives has a new Madrid director
Private equity firm Catalana d'Iniciatives has promoted Nicholas Ruiz to director of its Madrid office. Previously an investment director, Ruiz has worked in a number of operations at the firm's offices in Madrid and Barcelona.
UK - CDC appoints general counsel and chief compliance officer
CDC Group Plc, the UK government-backed emerging market private equity fund-of-funds investor, has appointed Mark Kenderdine-Davies as general counsel and chief compliance officer.
UK - Hotbed appoints new investment director
Hotbed has appointed Johnny Markham as investment director in its commercial property division. Markham has experience in investment, property development and corporate property solutions, having worked for a number of high-profile clients such as British...
UK - Quester appoints Sergio Levi as director
Quester has appointed Sergio Levi as a director. Levi first joined Quester's ICT team in January 2006, specialising in investments in the semiconductor and electronics sector. As a director, he will be responsible for sourcing, implementing and managing...
FRANCE - Truffle Venture hires fresh talent
Paris-based Truffle Venture has recruited an energy specialist and a new financial controller.
UK - Baker Tilly's corporate finance team continues to expand
Baker Tilly has strengthened its national corporate finance team with the appointment of three new partners. Kirsty Sandwell, Alistair Hynd and Angela Toner join as partners taking Baker Tillyтs total number of corporate finance partners to 27. Sandwell,...
UK - Joseph A Stanislaw joins Climate Change Capital
A leading energy expert, Joseph A Stanislaw, has joined the international advisory board of Climate Change Capital, the UK based investment banking group dedicated to investment in clean energy and a low carbon economy.
UK - Dunedin appoints new directors
Dunedin has announced that Giles Derry and Mark Ligertwood have been appointed directors. Mark Ligertwood joined Dunedin in 1999 following a six-month secondment from Ernst & Youngтs Corporate Finance department where he qualified as a chartered accountant....
UK - Liverpool Ventures appoints new managing director
A new managing director has been appointed to Liverpool Ventures. Liverpool Ventures provides specialist support services to businesses applying to and backed by, the ТЃ27m Liverpool Seed Fund, an MSIF Fund. Malcolm Stewart, 45, joins the Liverpool Ventures...
ITALY - Allen & Overy to end activities in Turin
Law firm Allen & Overy (A&O) has decided to end its operations in Turin following the departure of Carlo Pavesio, the only A&O partner left in the city. Pavesio left to set up his own practice. From January next year, Pavesio & Associati will be fully...
IRELAND - Irish Venture Capital Association elects new chairman
Niall Carroll, managing director of ACT Venture Capital, has been elected chairman of the Irish Venture Capital Association.
UK - Sovereign Capital expands team
Sovereign Capital has expanded its team with the appointment of investment executive Alex Dampier.
SPAIN - First Tuesday to discuss financing for web-based companies
Financing for internet-based and 'new-tech' companies will be one of the topics discussed at the fourth Barcelona edition of First Tuesday, to be held tonight at the Carpe Diem Lounge Club. The agenda of the business networking forum also includes advice...
UK - Ingenious appoints David Mansfield as a main board director
Ingenious, the media investment and advisory group, has appointed David Mansfield as a main board director. Mansfield joined the advisory board of Ingenious Media Active Capital Plc, the AIM listed fund, early this year and now joins the company in an...
UK - Probitas Parnters makes new London appointments
Placement agent Probitas Partners has announced that Jonathan Leinmuller and FranУЇois Garcin have joined their London team. Leinmuller joins as a director from Matrix Private Funds Group, another placement agent. He has a degree in Economics from Bristol...
FRANCE - Willkie Farr & Gallagher bolsters its Paris office
Law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher has appointed Pierre Ullmann as associate in its Paris office. Emmanuel Galifer, who has worked with Ullmann since 2004 also joins the law firm.
US - Clayton, Dublier & Rice appoints new partner
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) has announced that Charles A Banks, former chief executive officer of Wolseley Plc has joined the firm as a partner. He will be based in CD&R’s New York office. Banks led Wolseley, the world's largest specialist trade distributor...
UK - Kevin Dunn appointed new European head of leveraged finance for GE Commercial Finance
Kevin Dunn has been named as the new European head of leveraged finance for GE Commercial Finance. Based in London, Dunn will oversee the entire European leveraged finance operation, with offices in Paris, Milan and Frankfurt. Dunn replaces Sandeep Kamat,...
SWEDEN - Roschier recruits seven new lawyers to Stockholm office
Roschier has strengthened its operations in Sweden through the recruitment of seven new lawyers to its Stockholm office. Fredrik Rydin, a specialist in acquisitions finance, has been appointed partner and recruitment continues on all levels.
SPAIN - 3i director joins Magnum Industrial Partners
Inaki Echave has left 3i's London office to join Magnum Industrial Partners, a Spanish buyout firm recently launched by ex Santander Angel Corcostegui. The firm has begun the fundraising for its first fund, capped at EUR 750m. Echave's work at 3i included...
SWITZERLAND/FRANCE/ITALY - Argos Soditic's founder to leave the firm
According to press reports Edoardo Bugnone, founder of private equity firm Argos Soditic and a former chairman of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA), is to leave the firm weeks after the closing of its latest fund.