Equistone appoints BGF's Copeland and promotes Baker

Kenny Wastell
21 May 2019

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Equistone Partners Europe has appointed BGF's Will Copeland and promoted Ed Baker to the positions of investment manager and investment director respectively.

Copeland will be based in Equistone's Birmingham office and leaves his position as investor at BGF after three years with the firm. In his previous role, he worked on all stages of investment processes, from origination to exit. Prior to joining BGF, Copeland spent six years at PwC, where he was promoted from a senior associate in the audit team, to a senior associate and, later, manager on the deals team.

Baker is promoted from his role as investment manager on Equistone's London team. He joined the firm in 2018 after four years at MML Capital Partners. Since moving to the firm, he has worked on investments including precision-engineered polymer company Nylacast and contract catering group CH&CO. Prior to MML, he spent six years at KPMG.

The latest development comes two months after Equistone made four appointments to its investment team across its Munich, Paris and London offices. In March, Hubert van Wolfswinkel and Julia Brunswicker joined the Munich office as director and investment manager respectively, while Isabella Boman-Flavell and Caroline Pinton were appointed as investment managers in the firm's London and Paris offices.

Equistone is currently investing from Equistone Partners Europe Fund VI, a €2.8bn vehicle that closed last year with a mandate to invest in companies with enterprise values between €50-500m across Europe.