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Felix Capital hires Lin and Shanfield
Lin has experience at Hg and Bain & Company, while Shanfield joins from Raine Group
Stonehage Fleming expands private capital team
Meiping Yap joins as director and James Jefferson as senior associate
ICG hires Jamie Rivers from BC Partners
Rivers' deals at BC Partners included Acuris, CarTrawler, Cote Restaurants, Elysium and VetPartners
Exponent to exit Bullitt via restructuring - reports
Reported transaction would come less than two years after Exponent acquired a 65% stake in the firm
Mobeus appoints Mead as venture partner
New recruit left his role as chief investment officer at Mercia Technologies in 2018
Bowmark close to £100m take-private of Tax Systems
Offer represents a premium of 20.3% on the average 91.4 pence per share in the past 12 months
Synova hires Sovereign's Jain, appoints two more
Jain joins as an investment director, while the GP also hires Alantra's Mullally and HSBC's Bullman
Baird promotes three to managing director
Ballantine, Luen and Sun are promoted from their director roles in the industrial and TMT teams
Endless adds new associate director to Manchester team
James Warburton spent eight years in the Manchester restructuring team at Deloitte
Adams Street hires de Beau for primary investments team
Responsibilities include managing private equity fund manager relationships throughout Europe
Advent hires former TPG partner Taylor as head of tech
Taylor previously co-founded Symphony Technology Group and was a consultant at Bain & Company
Tenzing recruits Inflexion's Healy, makes two further hires
GP has hired former Inflexion TMT partner Healy, as well as Phoenix's Sims and Deloitte's Nicholson
Vala launches EIS fund with alternative fee structure
Newly launched firm will replace standard administrative fees with a performance-related model
HIG hires Pamplona's Noé-Nordberg as MD
New recruit will head up the firm's recently launched European mid-market division
DC hires Luycx from Torch Partners
Luycx joins from Torch Partners, where he worked for 10 years, latterly as managing director
Apollo's £3.32bn RPC take-private bid approved by directors
Development comes four months after the GP emerged as a bidder for the plastic packaging firm
Palamon promotes Arbour to partner
Arbour is promoted from associate partner, having joined the firm in 2013 as a managing director
Investec hires DC Advisory's Arrowsmith
In his new role, Jonathan Arrowsmith will lead the firm's investment banking advisory offering
Equistone makes new hire and seven promotions
Promotions and appointments take place across offices in France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK
Aliter promotes three
UK-based firm fills the positions of head of legal, investment manager and investment director
FRP appoints AlixPartners' Cox as partner
New recruit leaves AlixPartners after four years, during which he co-founded its debt advisory arm
WestBridge promotes Whittard to director
Company also promotes Minton to investment manager after joining nine months previously
Bowmark hires LDC's Adcock
Adcock will be responsible for developing the portfolio management and value creation functions
L Catterton partially exits Steiner via $900m Elemis sale
Sale of the skincare brand to L'Occitane is worth marginally less than the original deal for its parent