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Silverfleet hires Süß as partner
Süß joins Silverfleet's DACH-focused team from TowerBrook Capital Partners
Willkie hires Abrar as partner
Kamyar Abrar joins from Weil Gotshal & Manges' PE team and also has experience in corporate deals
HIG hires Meysson as head of European direct lending
Pascal Meysson joins from Alcentra and has previous experience at Deutsche Bank and Charterhouse
CPP Investments appoints SNCF's Pepy as senior adviser
Pepy joined SNCF in 1993 and served as chair and CEO from 2008 to 2019
Keensight hires Jamin as director
Prior to joining Keensight Capital, Stéphane Jamin was a manager at Kearney
Baird Capital promotes two in London team
Michael Holgate has been promoted to partner, while Andy Dyer is now a director
Zeus makes six promotions
Zeus has promoted Nick Cowles to deputy head of corporate finance and Jordan Warburton to director
VGC promotes Lister to partner
Lister joined the firm last year from Marlin Equity Partners as an investment director
Lincoln hires three in DACH healthcare team
Dirk Loeffler, Julian Knirim and Jens Gerlach all join Lincoln from Raymond James
BD-Capital appoints Advent's Grimmelt as head of Benelux
In his new role, Bram Grimmelt will lead the firm's investment activities across the Benelux region
EMH promotes Schwarz as partner
Dominik Schwarz joined EMH in 2018 and has prior experience at Chequers Capital and Barclays Capital
Harper to lead HIG’s London small-cap buyout team
Prior to joining HIG, John Harper was a partner at Inflexion Private Equity and previously worked at LDC
PA SERS appoints Seth Kelly as new CIO
Kelly joins from the Missouri State Employees Retirement System, where he was also CIO
Initiative & Finance appoints PAI Partners’ Oliveau
He will be responsible for the operational support of the portfolio of Tomorrow Private Equity Fund
Baudon to remain Invest Europe chair, EBRD’s Fossemalle named chair-elect
Fossemalle has been the director in charge of equity funds at the EBRD since 2009
Gyrus Capital hires two
Healthcare-focused GP was launched in early 2019 by former Argos Wityu partner Guy Semmens
PAI Partners appoints Boullier as managing director
In his new role, Boullier will lead IT and digital transformation across PAI and its portfolio companies
OTPP appoints Frank as senior managing director
Karen Frank will lead the LP's private capital and "high-conviction equities" teams
SHS appoints Jacqui as senior adviser
Heinz Jacqui has a medical technology background and will assist with SHS's investments in this area
Rede's Yaron Zafir joins Asante
Zafir left Rede earlier this year, after heading the firm's secondaries activities
Ardian appoints Erdland as senior adviser
Alexander Erdland has previously held roles including president of the German Insurance Association
Schroder Adveq hires Unigestion's van der Kam to head secondaries
Van der Kam was co-head of secondaries at Unigestion and helped build the firm's secondaries platform
Go Capital taken over by management
As part of this deal, Jerome Guéret is appointed as CEO and Bertrand Distinguin takes on the role of president
IQ appoints Hirtzel as general partner
Hirtzel previously served as chief operating officer of Kreos Capital after working at PA Consulting
