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Investment banks Altium and GCA Savvian merge
Valued in excess of £250m, the two firms generated combined revenues of £120m in 2015
Ropes & Gray hires Travers Smith's Croke as partner
New recruit joins former colleague Phil Sanderson in legal firm's London office
Endless appoints Lloyds' Stout as director
New London-based recruit will oversee the deployment of debt from the GP's fourth fund
Martin Strobel new operating partner at Advent
Former Baloise CEO Martin Strobel joins Advent's 70-strong operating partner programme
Hamilton Lane promotes Sipp and Hope
Sipp joined the placement agent in 2006 and has been part of the fund investment team
NorthEdge promotes Potts and Marshall to investment manager
New appointments will work in the firm's Manchester and Leeds offices, respectively
LDC launches Cardiff office, appoints Dewi Hughes
Dewi Hughes joins from Deloitte, where he led the corporate finance advisory team
Debevoise promotes Smith to partner
Private equity specialist Smith works across acquisitions and debt transactions
Dentons hires Pocobelli as M&A partner
Lawyers Elena Martellucci and Claudio Segna also join the firm's Italian office as associates
Banca Carige rejects Apollo bid
Non-binding offer consisted of €550m for capital increase and purchase of non-performing loans
Foresight expands Nottingham and Manchester teams
Mike Quinn joins from RSM while Matthew Pomroy joins from Mazars
Catalyst promotes Holden to partner
New partner oversees the advisory firm's London-based business services team
Invest Europe CEO Höppner to depart
Invest Europe CEO Dörte Höppner departs after five years at the association's helm
Liautaud named managing partner at Balderton
Liautaud joined Balderton in 2008 as general partner after selling his company Business Objects
BGF appoints Caird's Barker
Barker joins from Caird Capital, where he was an investment director
KCP appoints FTI's Excell as investment manager
New hire will identify potential acquisitions for firm's first institutional fund
Italmobiliare offers to buy majority stake in Clessidra for €16m
The binding offer is for the entire stake in the Italian private equity house
AnaCap to acquire Barclays' French retail banking operations
Financial specialist buyout house continues investments in European banking groups
Enterprise-backed XTB valued at €308.9m in Warsaw IPO
Polish Enterprise Fund VI, which holds Enterprise’s stake, did not sell any shares in the IPO
Intesa Sanpaolo launches fintech VC Neva Finventures
New venture capital vehicle targets Italian startups in fintech sector
Endless appoints Addleshaw Goddard's Smith as partner
New recruit worked on the firm's secondary buyout deal for Bright Blue Foods
Innova promotes Magnuszewska to partner
Former managing director Magdalena Magnuszewska becomes partner at CEE-focused GP Innova Capital
Electra deputy managing partner Symondson steps down
Departure forms part of the GP's long-term succession plan, set in motion in 2010
Former German politician Guttenberg joins Mountain Partners
Former minister of defence joins the Swiss venture capital firm's supervisory board