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ITALY/US - Texas Pacific Group hires Davide Croff as advisor for Italy
Davide Croff has been hired by Texas Pacific Group (TPG) as a senior advisor for the Italian market.
FRANCE - AXA Private Equity appoints Asian head to its executive board
Christophe Florin, managing director for Asia at AXA Private Equity (AXA PE), has been made a member of the executive board.
UK - International Private Equity Services announces new hires
International Private Equity Services, the private equity fund administrator and outsourcing provider, is pleased to announce new changes to its senior management team. Dominic Jones has joined IPES as executive director, and chief executive officer designate....
UK - Nomura International appoints new director of new energy and clean technology ventures
Nomura International Plc has announced the appointment of Russell Pullan as director of New Energy and Clean Technology Ventures. He has joined Nomura from The Carbon Trust where he was head of venture capital. This new venture will have an international...
UK - Scottish Widows Investment Partnership appoints new investment manager
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), the asset management arm of the Lloyds TSB Group, has appointed Mirja Lehmler-Brown as investment manager, to its private equity team. Lehmler-Brown will report to Billy Gilmore, investment director private...
UK - Mezzanine Management appoints two new directors
Mezzanine Management, the mezzanine and private equity firm, today announces that it has appointed Bal Johal and Ian Wallis as Directors. They will join Mezzanine Management on 1 November 2006 and will be based in the London office.
UK - Carbon Trust appoints Gilbert Chalk to its board
The Carbon Trust Investments Clean Energy Fund, a fund established with the support of the Carbon Trust and focused on private equity investment in the low carbon and clean energy technology sectors, announced that Gilbert Chalk has agreed to join the...
UK - Imperial Innovations appoints new chief investment officer
Imperial Innovations Group Plc, one of the leading technology transfer and commercialisation companies in the UK, has announced the appointment of Russell Cummings to the board of directors as chief investment officer. He joins from Scottish Equity Partners...
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.
FRANCE - Norton Rose bolsters its Paris office with three hires
Norton Rose has announced the addition of three associates to its Paris office.
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 Bridgepoint’s 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...
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 bank’s 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...