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UK – Promotions at Capital Dynamics
Capital Dynamics has announced three promotions to enhance its management capabilities. The global private equity asset manager has appointed John Gripton to the post of managing director and head of investment management Europe. With 17 years’ experience...
UK - Barclays promotes within leveraged finance
Barclays Capital has changed the structure of its leveraged finance team. Kirk Harrison and Phil Kelleher, both Managing Directors, have been jointly promoted to the newly created role of Co-Heads of Leveraged Product, reporting to John Kelting, Head...
UK - Legal & General Ventures expands investment team
Legal & General Ventures is expanding its investment team with the appointment of Euan O’Sullivan as an Associate. O’Sullivan joins LGV from Close Brothers Corporate Finance where he advised on a number of company disposals as well as public company...
FRANCE - Global Private Equity hires US LP specialist
International placement agent Global Private Equity has appointed Gayle Jackson as senior consultant.
UK/US - Abingworth appoints new venture partner
Following the final close of Europe's largest dedicated life sciences fund on £300m earlier this year, Abingworth has appointed Dr Vincent Miles as venture partner. He will be based at the company’s offices in Waltham, MA, US. His responsibilities...
UK - 3i strengthens media team through appointment of Wolfgang Kitza
3i has strengthened its media sector team with the appointment of Wolfgang Kitza as venture partner with 3i’s global venture capital team. In his new role, Kitza will bring experience and contacts to help 3i increase its investment opportunities in...
GERMANY - 3i strengthens Frankfurt buyout team
3i announced the appointment of Dr Thorsten Grenz verstärkt as operating partner to its pan-European buyout team in Frankfurt. Together with fellow partners Tim Harrison and Iain McRitchie in London, Jerome Girzsyn in Paris and Frederik Roth in Frankfurt,...
FRANCE - CDC Capital Investissement hires three investors
CDC Capital Investissement (CDC CI) has poached three new investors from Sigefi, Ernst & Young and Natexis Investissement Partners.
UK - RJD Partners appoints new Investment Manager
RJD Partners has appointed Frank Bulman as Investment Manager.
FRANCE - Cabinet Bremont strengthens legal and turnaround teams
Law firm Cabinet Bremont has hired Virginie Verfaille-Chavaux and Dimitri Sonier to boost its legal and turnaround teams.
UK - Campbell Lutyens grows team by four
Private equity advisory firm Campbell Lutyens has announced the appointment of four new team members to its fund placement and secondary advisory teams.
CEE - ICG appoints head for Central and Eastern Europe
European mezzanine specialist Intermediate Capital Group has appointed Aleksander Marcin Ferenc as assistant director responsible for originating and executing deals in Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining ICG, he was investment director at Baring...
UK - Aureos Advisers appoints new head of group operations
Brigit van Dijk - van de Reijt has joined London-based Aureos Advisers, the fund advisory service to Aureos Capital.
UK - Aberdeen Asset Managers Growth Capital appoints Ryan Bevington
Aberdeen Asset Managers Growth Capital has appointed Ryan Bevington as a senior investment manager to its Northern team. Bevington will focus on new investment opportunities involving smaller UK companies requiring up to £4m of equity finance, including...
UK - Inflexion portfolio company Parasol appoints new chairman
Inflexion has appointed Ray Pierce as chairman of its employment services company Parasol Group. Pierce has been well known to Inflexion for a number of years most recently in his capacity as Chairman of Crown Sports which Inflexion sold in May 2006....
UK - Gresham strengthens its team with two appointments
Gresham has further strengthened its investment team by recruiting Iain Wolstenholme as investment director and Peter Lahoud as research and origination manager. Wolstenholme joins Gresham from Ernst & Young. His experience includes a wide variety of...
UK - Endless makes new appointment
Endless has recruited James Woolley as investment manager. He joins Endless from the corporate finance and restructuring department of Ernst & Young.
GERMANY - White & Case strengthens Frankfurt team
White & Case has appointed Dr Benedikt Gillessen as partner to join its Capital Markets team in Frankfurt from March 2007. Gillessen joins from Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer where during his eight year tenure he focused on equity capital markets and especially...
UK - DLJ Merchant Banking Partners makes new appointments
DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (DLJMBP), the private equity affiliate of Credit Suisse, has appointed Allen M Yurko as an industrial partner. Based in London, he will work with Colin Taylor, managing director and head of DLJMBP Europe.
NL - Bencis Capital Partners appoints new partner
Menno van der Meer has joined Bencis Capital Partners as a partner as of 1 February. He will operate from the firm's Amsterdam office.
GERMANY - Earlybird strengthens technology team
Earlybird has appointed Gayathri Radhakrishnan as an associate focusing on technology investments. In addition, the venture capital firm has brought the total number of partners to six by promoting Wolfgang Seibold and Thom Rasche.
UK - Amadeus Capital portfolio company Cambridge Broadband appoints new chairman
Cambridge Broadband, a developer of carrier-class cellular backhaul solutions backed by Amadeus Capital, Accel Partners, TVM Capital and Adara Ventures has appointed John Cronin as the company's new chairman. He succeeds Herman Hauser, a founding partner...
SPAIN - Doughty Hanson boosts its real estate team
Fernando San Juan has recently joined Doughty Hanson's real estate team in Madrid.
UK - Endless recruits Nick Leitch to lead new Birmingham office
Endless, the buyout and turnaround fund focused on UK-headquartered businesses, is to open up a new office in Birmingham and has recruited Nick Leitch for the position of investment director to lead the office. The office, which is due to open in March...