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SWEDEN - Industrifonden recruits two new professionals
Industrifonden has hired two new investment managers, Stefan Jakelius, formerly head of seed financing at the Energy Agency, and Tore Tolke, formerly investment manager at Småföretagsinvest.
FRANCE - Activa continues to grow
Mid-cap private equity firm Activa Capital has hired Julien Di Marco as an Investment Analyst.
FRANCE - Unigrains appoints new president
The board of directors of agriculture-oriented investor Unigrains has appointed Philippe Pinta as president, replacing Henri de Benoist.
UK - LDC appoints Paul Johnson as head of larger mid-market team
LDC has appointed Paul Johnson to head a newly-created team which will focus on originating larger mid-market transactions. The team will target deals requiring an equity investment between £25m and £100m, the newly-instated upper reach of LDC’s underwriting...
SPAIN/UK - Palamon adds Morgan Stanley banker to its Spanish team
Pan-European private equity firm Palamon Capital Partners has hired former Morgan Stanley executive director Jaime Enrique Hugas to strenghten its activities in Spain.
SWITZERLAND - Adveq establishes US presence
The Swiss fund-of-funds manager Adveq has announced it is to open an office in New York. A number of the firm's investment team will transfer from the Zurich office to New York, where they will be joined by two new members, Lee Gardella and Steven Yang....
UK - Kreos appoints Luca Colciago as partner
Kreos Capital, the provider of debt financing for venture deals, has appointed Luca Colciago as partner. Colciago has focused specifically on venture debt for the past seven years. He joins Kreos from Noble Fund Managers, an alternative assets manager...
UK - Palamon expands investment team
Palamon Capital Partners has expanded its investment team with the appointment of JaimeEnrique Hugas as principal. Hugas, a Spanish national, joins Palamon from Morgan Stanley where he was executive director of the European Media and Communications...
UK - LDC strengthens London team
LDC has appointed two senior investment professionals to its expanding London team. Andy Kilborn, who spent 10 years with KPMG advising on mid-market transactions, joins as investment manager and Alex Bowden, previously based at LDC’s Reading office,...
GERMANY - Bank of Ireland boosts Frankfurt team
Bank of Ireland has appointed Sebastian Osing and Jörg Tennemann to its Acquisition Finance team in Frankfurt. The new team members will focus on arranging funding opportunities in the German acquisition finance market. Osing joins from the M&A department...
FRANCE - Weinberg appoints head of real-estate funds
French buyout house Weinberg Capital Partners has named Laurent Halimi as partner with overall responsibility for real-estate funds.
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.