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ITALY - Rainone promoted at PM&Partners; two managers take the backseat
Private equity firm PM&Partners has just appointed senior manager Riccardo Rainone as the firm's fourth partner.
UK - Rutland appoints Daniel Freed
Rutland Partners has announced that Daniel Freed has joined its investment team. Freed joins Rutland after spending three years at CIBC World Markets where he worked on European M&A transactions across a wide range of sectors prior to which he worked...
UK - Bank of Ireland appoints Christophe Tardy as director of leveraged syndicated finance
Bank of Ireland has appointed Christophe Tardy as director of Leveraged Syndicated Finance. Tardy will join Bank of Ireland in early July and will be based in London. Previously Tardy spent 15 years at Societe Generale becoming part of the European syndicated...
UK - Fearghal Ó Ríordaín joins SEP from Accel
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has announced the appointment of Fearghal Ó Ríordaín, formerly of Accel Partners. Ó Ríordaín will operate from SEP’s London office. Prior to SEP, Ó Ríordaín spent five years at Accel Partners. He was a founding...
UK - Calyon strengthens leveraged finance team
Calyon has strengthened its leveraged finance team in the UK with the appointment of a team of six from the Bank of Ireland. Grant Gardner joins as managing director with executive directors Allan Clawson and Nathan Hawkes, director Nick Bellis, assistant...
UK - Advent grows ICT investment team
Advent Venture Partners has announced the appointment of Paul Fisher to the ICT investment team. Fisher gained experience of early-stage transactions at First Capita, where he was Associate Director. Prior to joining First Capital, Fisher worked in...
UK - Scottish Equity Partners strengthens team
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has made new two appointments to its expanding investment team. The two new hires are Sriram Srinivasan and Mark Gracey both of whom will be based in SEP’s London office. The duo, who are from India and Australia respectively,...
UK - Aberdeen Growth Capital appoints Ned Dorbin
Aberdeen Asset Managers Growth Capital has appointed Ned Dorbin as senior investment manager to the South East team. Dorbin will focus on new investment opportunities involving smaller UK companies requiring up to £4m of equity finance.
UK - Heatons appoints two new partners
Manchester law firm Heatons has announced the appointment of Mary Erb and Jim Truscott to equity partners. The move takes Heatons' total partner count to six and comes as the firm celebrates its first anniversary after severing ties with its two affiliate...
UK - Ingenious Corporate Finance appoints senior UBS bankers
Ingenious, the media investment and advisory group, announces that Adam Joy and David Curley are to join Ingenious Corporate Finance as managing directors.
UK - Travers Smith grows partnership by 9
Travers Smith has announced that 9 new partners will be admitted the partnership as of 1 July 2007, taking the number of partners up to 65. The new additions are Matthew Ayre (Banking), Tim Lewis (Financial Services), Steve McNab (Environment and Planning),...
GERMANY - ING expands its leveraged finance team
ING Wholesale Banking has made a further addition to the German division of its Leveraged Finance and Sponsor Coverage group based in Frankfurt with the appointment of Dr Heinz Staake as director. Staake joins from Bank of Scotland’s Frankfurt office,...
GERMANY - Latham & Watkins strengthens Munich office
Volkmar Bruckner has joined Latham & Watkins as partner in the Munich office. He joins from Dechert where he was responsible for both corporate/M&A and private equity activities.
UK - OC&C appoints Michael Rzesnitzek as new partner
OC&C Strategy Consultants has appointed Michael Rzesnitzek as a new partner. He will start at OC&C on 1 October 2007. Rzesnitzek, a publishing expert with international experience, will bring his expertise in the media to OC&C.
UK - ICG appoints Garland Hansmann
Intermediate Capital Group has appointed Garland G. Hansmann as portfolio manager for its fund management subsidiary Intermediate Capital Management Ltd.
SWEDEN - Segulah recruits new partner
Segulah has recruited Percy Calissendorff as a new partner. He will join the team as of September 3rd 2007. Percy is a Swedish citizen with over ten years of private equity experience. Over the last five years, he has been a partner at UK based private...
NL - New partner at LSP
Dr Joep Muijrers has joined the Life Sciences Partners investment team as partner, operating from the Amsterdam office. Previously Muijrers was a director for corporate finance and capital markets at Fortis Merchant Banking, where he focused exclusively...
UK - Marsh strengthens private equity team
Marsh has strengthened its private equity and M&A (PEMA) team with the appointment of David Pellegrino to the new role of business development leader for PEMA in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Pellegrino has relocated to London from Marsh’s New...
UK - Enterprise Ventures appoints Julian Viggars
Enterprise Ventures has appointed Julian Viggars to manage its technology investment arm. Viggars, previously technology portfolio director at EV, will head up a team of four focused on early-stage technology investment in the Northern regions and oversee...
UK - Michael Joseph joins DE Shaw
Michael Joseph has joined DE Shaw, the US investment group, to head up its London-based investment team. Joseph was previously a senior director at Lloyds TSB and LDC.
ICELAND/NORWAY - Glitnir appoints new CEO
Lárus Welding has been appointed new CEO of Glitnir, after Bjarni Ármannsson, who has served as the bank´s CEO for the past 10 years. Welding has previously been managing director for Landsbanki´s London Branch since 2003. Welding joined Landsbanki...
UK - Bryan Garnier strengthens corporate finance division in London
Bryan, Garnier & Co has strengthened its corporate finance operation in the UK with the move of Bruno Tourne, head of the firm's technology group, to London. Tourne is planning several new hires to bring even more local market knowledge to the firm.
UK - Dundas & Wilson promotes Nadim Meer to partner
Dundas & Wilson has announced the promotion of private equity specialist Nadim Meer to partner. Meer is a corporate lawyer who also advises on M&A deals. Meer, who recently advised on the secondary buyout of ADP Dental Company will focus on developing...
BALTICS - GILD Bankers is joined by a new partner Mr. Kimmo Irpola
GILD Bankers has appointed a new partner - Kimmo Irpola, who has extensive experience in private equity investment management in Finland, Germany and also in Central and Eastern Europe. At GILD Bankers Irpola joins the Investment Management team, where...