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UK - LDC appoints Farazmand to head London team
LDC has appointed Tim Farazmand as London regional director to lead its seven-strong team based in Old Bond Street.
SWEDEN - Industrifonden appoints Anders Grånäs as investment manager
Anders Grånäs has been recruited as new investment manager at Industrifonden and will focus on ICT ventures.
SWEDEN - Segulah recruits Håkan Dahlin as CFO
Segulah has appointed Håkan Dahlin as CFO to start in his new position in the spring.
UK - Northern Trust makes four strategic appointments
Northern Trust, the provider of asset servicing, investment management and wealth management services, has made four appointments to its asset servicing business development team for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
UK - Duke Street appoints operating partner
Duke Street Capital has announced the appointment of Sir Neville Simms as operating partner.
GERMANY - Cipio promotes Dennert to partner
Roland Dennert has been promoted to partner of Cipio Partners in Munich. Cipio managing partner, Werner Dreesbach, said: 'Roland has successfully managed a number of our European and Israeli investments and made major contributions to the development...
GERMANY - Winter arrives in Frankfurt
Private equity lawyer Jochen Winter, whose clients include Fortress Investment Group and CVC Capital Partners, has left Linklaters to join the Frankfurt office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
UK - LDC recruits in the Midlands
LDC has strengthened its team in the Midlands with the appointment of Tim Newman as business development director.
UK - ICG appoints new non-executive director
The board of Intermediate Capital Group Plc, the specialist European and Asian provider of mezzanine finance, has announced the appointment of Justin Dowley as both a new non-executive director of the company and thereafter independent chairman of the...
UK - Kennet Venture Partners hires new director
Kennet Venture Partners has announced that it has appointed Eileen Tanghal as director. She will be based in the company’s London office.
UK - PwC appoints Northern head of corporate finance
PricewaterhouseCoopers has appointed a corporate finance leader for its business in the North of England.
UK - CVC appoints new investment director
CVC Capital Partners has announced the appointment of Alexander Fotakidis as investment director in its London team.
UK - Permira appoints three to the partnership
Permira has announced that Jörg Rockenhäuser, Richard Sanders and Federico Saruggia have been elected to partner. All appointments are effective immediately.
FRANCE - Auriga Partners appoints Jacques Mallet
Auriga Partners has announced the arrival of Jacques Mallet, who has joined the team as a partner in its life sciences division. Mallet has 12 years experience in strategy consulting for the pharmaceutical industry, which he gained at Monitor Group and...
FINLAND - Kaisa Arovaara appointed as deputy CFO of CapMan
Kaisa Arovaara has been appointed deputy CFO of CapMan Plc as of 9 January 2006.
Top Lovells duo leaves for Weil Gotshal
Marco Compagnoni and Jonathan Wood will be joining the London office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges as partners in the firm's Global Private Equity Group.
Bank of Ireland hires two for acquisition finance team
Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking has appointed two bankers to join its expanding UK acquisition finance team as it predicts an increase in activity within the UK leveraged finance sector this year.
Baird heads for A&O
Derek Baird has resigned from Lovells to join Allen & Overy. He originally joined Lovells from Dickson Minto in 2002.
Digital Healthcare appoints non-executive director
Digital Healthcare (DH), a leading supplier of software for diabetic retinal screening programmes and ophthalmology, has appointed Mike O’Leary as a non executive director with immediate effect.
Quartilium stengthens its fund-of-funds team
Finama Private Equity – Quartilium, the private equity fund-of-funds arm of Groupama in France, has appointed Olivier Thévenet as investment manager. Thévenet started his career at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant. He then joined the...
Williams de Bro appoints new head of corporate finance
Williams de Bro has appointed Frank Moxon, chairman of the Corporate Finance Forum of the Securities & Investment Institute, as head of corporate finance.
Imperial Innovations appoints Smith as CFO / COO
Imperial Innovations, the technology commercialisation company of Imperial College London, today announces the appointment of Julian Smith as chief finance and operating executive.
AIB strengthens UK leveraged finance team
AIB Capital Markets has further strengthened its UK Acquisition Finance team with the relocation of Nina Brauer from the bank’s German Acquisition Finance team. The appointment underpins AIB Capital Markets’ focus on lead arranging mid-market leveraged...
Granville promotes Havers to MD
Following the success of its recent Anglo-German fundraising Granville Baird Capital Partners, the European business of Baird Global Private Equity, today announces that Simon Havers has been promoted to managing director and will lead the UK team with...