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FRANCE - Ciclad appoints investment executive from Roland Berger
Ciclad has hired Julien Godard as investment executive to strengthen the team which is currently investing its EUR 120m 4th generation fund, Ciclad 4.
UK - Catalyst recruits food expert
Catalyst Corporate Finance has further strengthened its consumer and food team with the appointment of Simon Peacock from United Biscuits.
UK - Baird Capital Partners Europe further expands team
Baird Capital Partners Europe, the international mid-market private equity firm, today announces the expansion of its team with the appointment of two new professionals, bringing its UK staff to 14. Baird now has 66 professional staff in its global private...
UK - Ingram Forrest Corporate Finance strengthens team
Ingram Forrest Corporate Finance, the independent corporate finance arm of Barber Harrison & Platt, has strengthened its senior team with the appointment of Don Gray as a corporate finance director.
UK – Bridgepoint appoints new head of investor services
Bridgepoint has announced the appointment of John Barber as a partner. He will be head of investment services and will take over from Graham Dewhurst at the beginning of 2007. He will also be serving on Bridgepointтs operating and investment committees....
NETHERLANDS - VNU appoints David Calhoun as chairman of executive board and CEO
VNU has announced that David L. Calhoun, vice chairman of General Electric Company, has been named chairman of the executive board and chief executive officer of VNU by the company’s supervisory board. Calhoun succeeds Rob Ruijter, who has served as interim...
UK - Smedvig appoints new associate
Smedvig Capital has announced the appointment of Nicola Lando as a new associate. She joins Smedvig from Mercer Management Consulting.
ESTONIA - Estonia's development agency to hire more representatives abroad
Enterprise Estonia, Estonia's economic development agency, will recruit new employees to take up positions at its new field offices abroad. New staff will set up and run international offices in San Francisco Bay Area and in Kiev.
SWITZERLAND - Rimer to pursue medtech
According to press reports, one of the four Rimer brothers, Richard, has left Index Ventures to launch his own business focused on med tech and medical devices.
UK - Lovells boosts private equity team in London
Lovells has continued its programme of strengthening its London private equity capability with the recruitment into the partnership of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Carey partner Tom Whelan and Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson senior associate Stephanie...
UK - Lloyds TSB boosts acquisition finance team
Ian Brown is to join Lloyds TSB as a managing director within the bankтs acquisition finance team. In a newly formed role, Brown will head a team specifically created to target larger financial sponsors and win more lead managed underwriting roles for...
GERMANY - Michael Schneider to chair BayBG supervisory board
Michael Schneider has been elected to chair the supervisory board of BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft. Schneider is acting head of the executive commitee of LfA Förderbank Bayern, the largest single shareholder in BayBG.
UK - Clayton, Dubilier & Rice strengthens European team
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Inc (CD&R) has announced that Marco Herbst has joined the firm as a senior principal. Herbst, formerly of Duke Street Capital, will be based in CD&R's London office.
UK - Corbett Keeling appoints new chairmen
Corbett Keeling, the specialist management buyout adviser, is pleased to announce that it has had a record period in its financial year ended 31 July 2006. This is mainly due to multiple successes in its core area of advising management teams on financing...
UK - Sir James Crosby joins Bridgepoint Advisory Committee
Bridgepoint, the European private equity firm, has appointed Sir James Crosby to its European Advisory Committee. Sir James recently stepped down from the board of HBOS Plc where he had been chief executive since 2001. He had previously been CEO of Halifax...
UK - Pinsent Masons strengthens corporate finance team
Pinsent Masons has announced a fourth major corporate signing in Manchester with the move of highly regarded corporate finance specialist, Chris Moss, to the firm as a partner.
UK - Frontier Capital Management appoint chief operating officer
Frontier Capital Management has announced the appointment of Colin Hodges as its chief operating officer. Frontier was founded by Michael Azlen in 2004 in order to deliver a unique multi asset fund to the institutional, high net-worth and private banking...
UK - Warburg Pincus announces appointment of Charles Miller Smith
Warburg Pincus has announced that Charles Miller Smith has become a senior advisor to the firm. He will be based in London and will participate in the firm's European investment activities.
UK - Octopus makes two new appointments
Octopus Investments announced that it has appointed two new members to its private equity team; Richard Taylor and Jane Vinson. Taylorтs role will be to source and develop private equity deals working with advisory firms in the north of England т concentrating...
FRANCE - Electra Partners bolsters its Paris office
Electra Partners Europe has announced three new additions to its Paris office.
UK - Pinsent Masons makes new appointment to corporate finance team
One of the leading corporate lawyers in the North West, Stephen Levy, is joining Pinsent Masons' Manchester team in a move which underscores the top-level reinvigoration of the firm's regional corporate practice.
UK - Latham & Watkins appoints new structured finance partner
Latham & Watkins has announced that Mark Nicolaides has joined the firm's London office as a partner in the finance department.
FRANCE - DLA Piper appoints new partner for its Paris office
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, the global legal services organisation, has announced the appointment of Frédéric Bucher as a partner in the Paris office's corporate group.
UK - First Reserve Corporation strengthens London office
First Reserve Corporation, a leading US-based private equity firm that specialises in the energy industry, has announced the strategic hire of Neil J. Hartley as director. He will be based at First Reserve International in London.