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UK- NVM grows Reading office
Richard Gibson has moved from the Edinburgh office of NVM Private Equity to its Reading office.
UK - Aberdeen Asset Managers Growth Capital expands team
Aberdeen Asset Managers Growth Capital has made three appointments: Andrew Symmonds joins as a portfolio manager within the portfolio management team; Atul Devani joins as a consultant to the South East Growth Capital team and Kimberly Martin joins as...
UK - Lion Capital appoints Mary Minnick as partner
Lion Capital has announced that Mary Minnick will be joining the firm as a partner in May. Minnick comes from The Coca-Cola Company where she has been for 23 years, having had world-wide responsibilities in general management, strategy, innovation, marketing,...
UK - NVM strengthens its investment team with new appointment
NVM Private Equity has appointed Clive Austin as part of its expanding investment team. In his new role Austin will be covering the North West England. He joins NVM from Catapult Venture Managers where he established its Birmingham office. At Catapult...
UK - Hammonds boosts private equity team with two partnership appointments
Hammonds' private equity practice has appointed two new specialist partners. Tim Hewens and Nick Watson have both been promoted internally to the partnership. Hewens, based in the London office of the law firm, has significant experience in acting for...
UK - Bank of Ireland appoints new UK acquisition finance MD
Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking has appointed Peter Dunsby as UK managing director, Global Acquisition Finance. Dunsby joins Bank of Ireland from CIBC World Markets in London where he was executive director of its European leveraged finance business....
UK - Law firm Stephenson Harwood strengthens team
Law firm Stephenson Harwood has strengthened its corporate group and India practice by appointing Pawan Sharma as a corporate partner, from Grundberg Mocatta Rakison. Sharma's expertise lies in a broad range of corporate finance work including AIM listings,...
UK - Glitnir Integrated Finance appoints Natalie Eastham
Natalie Eastham, previously an associate director at Close Brothers Growth Capital, has joined Glitnir in the UK as a director. Her primary role is to grow Glitnir’s integrated finance presence in the UK market, reporting to Erlendur Magnússon, managing...
FRANCE - DLA Piper hires M&A specialist for its Paris office
International law firm DLA Piper has appointed Geraud de Franclieu as an associate to strengthen the corporate department of its Paris office.
UK - Inflexion hires new assistant director
Inflexion Private Equity has appointed Anthony Bower to join its investment team as assistant director.
FRANCE - UFG Private Equity boosts its investment team
UFG Private Equity (formerly known as Nord Europe Private Equity) has announced the nomination of two new investment directors.
UK - LDC appoints new investment director in Midlands
LDC's Birmingham office has strengthened its team with the appointment of Steve Aston as investment director.
UK - Smedvig appoints new chairman to portfolio company Streetcar
Smedvig Capital has appointed Sir Trevor Chinn as the new non-executive chairman of Streetcar, the UK’s largest pay-as-you-go car club and a recent addition to the Smedvig portfolio. Smedvig provided Streetcar with £6.4m of expansion funding in March...
UK - Richard Holway joins Regent as non-executive director
Regent Associates Ltd has announced that Richard Holway has joined the board of its parent company Regent Partners International Ltd as a non-executive director with effect from 2nd April 2007. RPI is a holding company within which Regent, a leading specialist...
UK - Clearwater promotes Nick Jones to partner
Clearwater has marked the end of its fourth year with the promotion of Nick Jones to partner. Jones is Clearwater’s eleventh partner and is based in the London office.
UK - Linklaters appoints new partners in private equity team
Linklaters' London private equity funds team has been strengthened by the election of Nicola Hopkins and Edward Smith as partners. Hopkins and Smith each have significant experience in establishing and advising onshore and offshore private equity funds,...
SPAIN - Nicola Zambón leaves Investindustrial
Following the recent wave of resignations in the private equity scene in Spain, Nicola Zambón has decided to leave buyout firm Investindustrial.
SWEDEN - Environmental Technologies Fund appoints Per Ericsson
Per Ericsson has joined the team at Environmental Technologies Fund. Prior to ETF, Per was the regional head for General Electric in the Nordic countries and Baltic states for the past 20 years. He will be based in Stockholm and will work on new investments...
UK - Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance appoints Paul Brooks as non-executive director
Bank of Scotland has appointed Paul Brooks to the management board of its Integrated Finance division as a non-executive director. Brooks will be working alongside Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance's senior management team to provide independent strategic...
SPAIN - Insiders speak on Nmás1 exodus
An insider at Nmás1 has told unquote” the reasons behind sudden changes at the top of the Spanish buyout house, which has just seen six members of staff leave in the last couple of weeks – in the middle of the firm’s fundraising.
UK - August Equity makes four internal promotions
August Equity has made four promotions. Sam Watkinson, who joined August Equity in August 2005, has been promoted to director. Watkinson is responsible for managing the deal origination activities across the four sectors which the firm focuses on –...
UK - Matrix expands its team with appointment of Guy Blackburn
Matrix Private Equity Partners has appointed Guy Blackburn as investment manager. He joins the new deals team, and will work on origination and establishing and building contacts for the firm.
GERMANY - New partners at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in Frankfurt
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has announced that Dr Andreas Hautkappe, Rolf Hünermann and Dr Stefan Jörgens join the firm as national partners in the Frankfurt office. Additionally Ole Oldenburg and Ingo Bednarz join the team as associates. All five new...
UK - Grant Thornton Leeds strengthens corporate finance team
The Leeds office of Grant Thornton has strengthened its corporate finance team with the appointments of Bridie Robinson as manager and Christina Lacy as executive. Jenny Hopkins has also been promoted to manager. Robinson, who joins Grant Thornton's Lead...