‘Musical Chairs’ Q1 2020

CREDIT P. 2–4 | P. 5–6 | P. 7–9 EUROPEAN CREDIT MOVES of DCM. Société Générale has also promoted Yury Kiselev to Head of DCM – CEE, the Commonwealth of CREDIT: BANKS Independent States and Russia.

Haris Sitzoglu has joined boutique investment bank CREDIT: FUNDS AXIA Ventures Group as an MD. Sitzoglu was previously an ED in Credit Agricole’s London based Alcentra has been adding to its growing European High Yield Leveraged Finance Origination team. Direct Lending team with senior hires including Howard Sharp as an MD and Head of Origination, Barclays has hired Xavier Clément as a Director in and Paul Hollis as an MD, focusing on pan European its European Credit Trading business. He will be based origination and execution. Timothée Delisle has also in Paris and responsible for sourcing loans, special joined the team at the AVP level, focusing on France. situations and distressed debt, reporting to Paolo All three will be reporting into Peter Glaser. Sharp was Minerva, Head of Sourcing for Europe. Clément joined previously Head of Mid-Market Direct Lending at Park from Oaktree’s Paris based office, where he was an Square Capital, where he helped to build their direct Investment Consultant sourcing distressed and special lending business. Hollis joined from Fosun, where he situations. established their direct lending strategy in Europe, and Delisle joined from BlackRock’s Private Debt team. HSBC has appointed Vinay Raj as Head of Illiquid Credit Syndicate, a new structure within the bank’s Nicolas Besson has also joined Alcentra as an ED syndicate operations focused on distributing structured in the Direct Lending Portfolio Monitoring team run by finance, infrastructure, real estate and distressed debt. Joanna Layton. Besson previously worked as a Director Previously, Raj worked in Global Markets at HSBC. in the Credit team at Pemberton.

Investec Corporate and Investment Banking has Amundi has hired Robert Jaeger as a Senior Credit hired Jan Straube into its Growth and Leveraged Analyst. Jaeger joined from Société Générale, where Finance team. Straube was previously an AD in the he was a Director and Senior Credit Analyst, covering Strategic Debt Finance team at Lloyds. European TMT across High Yield and Investment Grade Credit. JP Morgan has made a number of promotions at a senior leadership level including debt bankers Jim Casey, Global Head of DCM, who was appointed Co- Head of Global Investment Banking, alongside Vis Raghaven, and EMEA’s Head of Loan and High Yield Capital Markets, Kevin Foley, who has replaced Casey as Global Head of DCM.

KfW has hired Mark Ober-Blöbaum as a Senior Project Manager in their Frankfurt based Structured Finance team. Ober-Blöbaum joined from IKB Deutsche Industriebank, where he was a Director in the Corporate Structured Finance team, based in Frankfurt.

Christoph Gedeon has joined Silicon Valley Bank as an SVP in their Venture & Growth Financing team, based in Frankfurt. Gedeon joined from NIBC’s Frankfurt based Corporate Lending team.

Société Générale has made a number of changes to its DCM team. The bank has appointed Aymeric Arnaud as the new head of DCM – CEEMEA, replacing Cécile Camilli who is moving into the newly created position of Deputy Global Head of Export Finance (reporting into Hacina Py, Global Head of Export Finance and Head of Impact Finance Solutions). Arnaud will be based in Paris and report into Félix Orsini, Global Head

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q1 2020 2 Bayside Capital, the distressed debt and special Tara Moore has joined Golub as an MD and Head situations arm of H.I.G. Capital, has hired Florian of European Origination to help build their European Kawohl as an MD. He joined from Strategic Value Direct Lending strategy. Moore was previously an MD in Partners, where he was an MD and spent 14 years. In the Corporate Credit Group at Guggenheim Partners, his new role, Kawohl will split his time between London where she focused on European Direct Lending and Hamburg. origination.

Bayside Capital has also promoted Andrew Hayfin Capital Management has hired Roberto Alessi Scotland to Co-Head of Special Situations Debt in as an Investment Associate. Alessi previously worked in Europe. He will co-head the team alongside MD Duncan Goldman Sachs’s European Special Situations Group. Priston. Prior to joining Bayside in 2013, Scotland worked as an MD in RBS’s Special Situations Group, ICG has hired Rob Faulkner as an MD responsible for where he focused on European distressed investments. CLOs. Faulkner will join the firm in June. He joins from Barings, where he was an MD overseeing the CLO John Empson has joined BlackRock. Empson platform. previously worked as a Partner and Head of Capital Markets at KKR. Elizna Brockway has joined Investcorp Credit Management from Mizuho’s Leveraged Finance team, Petya Gangova has joined Blenheim Chalcot as an where she was an AD. Investment Professional in London. Prior to joining Blenheim Chalcot, Gangova was an Associate in Kartesia has hired Nick Holman as a Director Goldman Sachs’s Bank Debt Portfolio Group. responsible for the origination, execution and monitoring of Senior Opportunities investments across Europe, BlueBay Asset Management has hired Illya Zyskind but with a primary focus on the UK. Holman joined as a Portfolio Manager in its newly created EM from Santander, where he worked as a Director in its Corporate Credit team. She will report into the Head Structured Finance team. of Emerging Markets, Polina Kurdyavko. Zyskind will work together with Mihai Florian, who the business Marathon Asset Management has hired Mario also recently hired from Helios Investment Partners, to Perkovic as a VP in their Corporate Credit Group, develop co-investment opportunities and new closed- where he will focus on performing and opportunistic ended investment strategies. Zyskind was previously a credit. Perkovic was previously a VP in ’s member of the EM Credit and Special Situations Group Leveraged Finance & Financial Sponsors team. at Bank of America. Muzinich & Co. has launched its newly created Jim Amine has left Credit Suisse, where he had moved aviation finance business, which will be part of the asset into the Asset Management business to set up a Private manager’s growth plans in alternative investments and Credit Opportunities unit. This capability has now been private debt. Alok Wadhawan has been appointed to folded into Credit Suisse’s Credit Investments Group head the team, and Brian Lau, Thomas Light, Yuri (CIG), also part of the Asset Management division, and Gulla, Colin Short and Ashwath Venkataramani, who will be managed by John Popp as part of his role as all recently joined the business, will support him. Volker Global Head & CIO of CIG. Vogler, who also recently joined the business, will work in an adjacent role and focus on the distribution of CQS has hired James Peoples as a Principal covering Muzinich’s alternatives platform with an initial emphasis UK Distribution. He will be part of the business’s on Aviation. development team focusing on UK wealth management. Peoples joined from Muzinich, where he was Director PAI Partners has hired Matthew Johnson as an of Sales. Officer in their Capital Markets team. Johnson joined from Credit Suisse’s Leveraged Finance & Financial EQT Partners has hired Alessandro Frau as a VP Sponsors team. in their Credit team. Frau joined from Apollo, where he was an Associate in their Special Situations team. Craig Lyne has joined Partners Group’s Capital Previously, Frau worked at Credit Suisse in the Markets team run by Nils Bartel. Lyne was previously a Leveraged Finance & Financial Sponsors team. Director in HSBC’s London based Leveraged Finance team. Global Evolution has hired Eriko Miyazaki-Ross as an EM Credit Analyst. Miyazaki-Ross joined from Imperial Capital, where she was an EM Corporate Credit Analyst.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q1 2020 3 Leticia Ruenes has joined Pemberton as an MD CREDIT: ADVISORY and Head of Spain. Most recently, Ruenes worked at RBS, where she was Head of the European Structured Alvarez & Marsal has appointed Tim Metzgen to head Finance portfolio, overseeing LBOs, infrastructure and its new Debt Advisory business. Metzgen previously project finance investments. worked at Marlborough Partners.

Pemberton has also hired Steven Craig as an MD Dechert has hired Solomon Noh and Alastair and Portfolio Manager, focusing on mid-market debt Goldrein as Partners in their London based Financial strategies and associated funds. He will report to Restructuring practice. Both joined from Shearman & Mark Hickey, Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager. Sterling. Craig was most recently Head of Loans, High Yield & Distressed Debt Research at BNP Paribas. Chris Coley has joined Duff & Phelps as an MD in their Global Restructuring practice. Previously, Coley Sound Point Capital Management has hired Francis spent nine years working as an MD in FTI Consulting’s McCullough as Global Head of CLO Capital Markets & Corporate Finance and Restructuring practice. Structuring. McCullough joined from Deutsche Bank, where he was an MD and Global Head of New Issue Lincoln International announced the addition CLOs, based in London and New York. In his new New of Daniele Candiani to the firm’s Milan office as an MD York based role, McCullough will report to Ujjaval Desai, in the Debt Advisory Group. Most recently, Candiani Portfolio Manager and Head of Structured Products was a Partner and Head of Debt & Capital Advisory – Investing. Italy at Deloitte.

TPG Sixth Street Partners has hired Shaun Mullin to Stuart Sweeney has joined Spectrum Corporate focus on UK direct lending opportunities. Mullin joined Finance as an AD. Sweeney previously worked at from Investec’s Growth & Acquisition Finance team. Lloyds, where he was an AD in the London based Strategic Debt Finance team. Stephane Fievee has joined Western Asset Management as a Portfolio Manager focused on CREDIT: OTHER European Leveraged Loans. Fievee previously worked at Wells Fargo Asset Management, where he was Andres Korin has joined StorkCard as CEO and a Portfolio Manager for European High Yield and Co-Founder. Korin previously worked in JP Morgan’s Leveraged Loan funds. Credit Risk team, where he was a VP and focused on Financial Sponsors.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q1 2020 4 EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANKING MOVES Richard Taylor, who joined Barclays in 2011 to help lead its investment bank, has joined independent INVESTMENT BANKING: BANKS advisory firm Greenhill as an MD and Chair of its UK business. During his eight years at Barclays, Taylor held Fernando Vicario, Jérôme Morisseau and Stéphane numerous senior roles, including Head of its Investment Courbon have been given new roles in the Paris Banking division for EMEA. office of Bank of America. Vicario will become Head of European Corporate and Investment Banking, in HSBC has appointed Noel Quinn as permanent CEO. addition to his existing title of Head of Corporate Banking He had served as interim CEO following former CEO – EMEA. In his expanded role, Vicario will report to John Flint’s resignation last August. Quinn is a long- Bruce Thompson, President of EU and Switzerland, term member of the business, joining a subsidiary and Jim O’Neil, Head of EMEA Corporate and of Midland Bank in 1987. His many previous roles at Investment Banking. Morisseau has been made Head HSBC include Chief Executive of Global Commercial of Investment Banking – France, whilst Courbon has Banking and Regional Head of Commercial Banking for been named as Chairman of Corporate and Investment Asia-Pacific. Banking – France. Both will report to Vicario and Matt Cannon, who is now Head of EMEA Investment HSBC has also named Stephen Moss as Regional Banking, having recently replaced Luigi Rizzo who left Chief Executive – Europe, the Middle East, Latin America the firm in 2019. and Canada. The position will exclude responsibility for the UK. HSBC has also named its Chief Executive for Ulrich Kratz is leaving Barclays where he was Co-Head Mexico, Nuno Matos, as CEO of Europe. He will take of Consumer and Retail IB – EMEA, alongside Gavriel over from James Emmett, who is set to retire from Lambert, who will now take sole charge of the division. HSBC in September.

Citi has named Co-Heads of its Investment Banking Investec has made several hires expanding its d i v i s i o n a d v i s i n g fi n a n c i a l i n s t i t u t i o n s, f o l l o w i n g t h e m ove corporate broking and PLC advisory teams. Tobias of Peter Babej to lead its business in Asia Pacific last Sommer joins from Macquarie and will cover financial year. Stefan Wintels (who stepped back from leading sponsor transactions in the UK, DACH and Benelux. the European Financial Institutions Group in 2018 to Kate Gribbon joins from finnCap Group where she focus on the bank’s Brexit plans) will become Global led deal origination and will now be part of Investec’s Co-Head of the unit alongside US-based Christian Private Companies Coverage team, where she will Anderson. focus on origination to build earlier stage relationships with privately-owned companies across the bank. Grant Tidjane Thiam has resigned as CEO of Credit Suisse. Bergman re-joins Investec from finnCap Group, where Credit Suisse said in a statement that its board had he headed private companies fundraising. He will now “unanimously accepted” Thiam’s decision to resign lead the newly-formed Private Companies Fundraising after almost five years leading Credit Suisse. team. Stephen Ford, formerly of Hoare Govett, has also joined Investec to help grow its corporate client book. Austen Koles-Boudreaux, former Head of EMEA ratings advisory at Morgan Stanley, has started in JPMorgan has hired William Vereker, the former Co- a new role at Deloitte as a Partner in its Financial Head of UBS’s investment bank and latterly business Advisory business. envoy to Theresa May. Vereker becomes Vice- Chairman for Investment Banking – EMEA, a role that Goldman Sachs has promoted Olaf Diaz-Pintado to will see him tasked with sourcing deals and managing lead its Cross-Markets Group for EMEA. Diaz-Pintado client relationships. He will report to Vis Raghavan, is currently Co-Head of IB for EMEA and Head of JPMorgan’s Chief Executive for EMEA. Investment Banking for Spain. He will retain both roles in addition to his new responsibilities. In his new role JPMorgan has also appointed James Mazur, a former he will be working with Will Bousquette, who is Global hedge fund executive, as Head of Private Syndicate in Head of the Cross-Markets Group, and Dave Friedland, its ECM private placements business – EMEA. Mazur overall Head of M&A for the unit. Diaz-Pintado succeeds was previously COO at ADW Capital in New York. previous Head Rob Pulford, who has relocated to New York to lead the Financial and Strategic Investors Group Jens Voss will be leaving Germany’s second-largest (FSIG) for the Americas. As part of the same reshuffle, lender Commerzbank after nearly seven years to join the bank has promoted Anna Skoglund to Head of its KPMG. Voss will Head its ECM division for German- Financial and Strategic Investors group in Europe. She speaking regions. has worked at Goldman her entire career, joining as an Analyst in 1996, and was promoted to Partner in 2018.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q1 2020 5 Nomura has hired investment banker Marco Acaia HSBC has hired Nabil Lahham into the newly created from global boutique Moelis & Company, as an MD to role of Head of Advisory & Corporate Finance Coverage advise companies in the consumer and retail sectors. Middle East, North Africa and Turkey. Lahham was At Nomura, he will report to Michael Mackinnon, Head previously a Partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, of Consumer and Retail - EMEA. where he led its Middle Eastern business, having established offices for the bank in both Abu Dhabi and Panmure Gordon has named ex-Barclays investment Dubai. banking chief Rich Ricci as its new CEO. Ricci takes over from Ian Axe, who has led the business since 2017, Lincoln International has announced the appointment following its acquisition by Atlas Merchant Capital. of Joerg Brunner as an MD in the M&A, Global Panmure has announced plans to expand its business Automotive & Truck Group, Frankfurt. Brunner joined beyond its traditional broking footprint. from Raymond James where he was an SVP in the Automotive Group. Michael Sherwood, the former European Co-Head of Goldman Sachs, has joined the board of digital The independent advisory firm Perella Weinberg bank, Revolut. The business is believed to have Partners has opened a new office in Germany. Marcus recently secured capital with a view to making possible Schenck will run the office alongside fellow Perella acquisitions. Partner Stefan Jentzsch. Schenck, the former head of Deutsche Bank’s investment banking business, joined Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS) has Perella in late 2018. The move is understood to be announced the appointment of Roberto Pecora as part of the firm’s plan to expand into more European CEO and Country Head of SGSS S.p.A. (SGSS in Italy) territories. in Milan. Raymond James, the mid-market US investment bank, The former Head of Global IB at Bank of America, Diego has hired Allan Bertie from Jefferies International De Giorgi, who left last year amid a shake-up of the as Co-Head of its European IB arm, to be based in senior ranks, has joined UniCredit. De Giorgi has London. Bertie will work alongside current Head of joined the board of the Italian bank as an Independent European IB and COO Steve Hufford. The bank has Non-Executive Director. also hired Rothschild’s Edward Griffin, to be based in London and lead its coverage of financial institutions in INVESTMENT BANKING: GLOBAL ADVISORY & Europe. In addition, Florian Stoeger has been hired as BOUTIQUES a Director to be based in Frankfurt. Previously, Stoeger was a VP at Baird focusing on M&A. Fenchurch Advisory has recruited Kunal Gandhi as a Senior MD. Gandhi was most recently Head of Michael Young has joined Stephens Europe as an Corporate Broking at Barclays, having spent a decade MD focused on specialty finance deals. Young is the at the bank. latest in a series of hires for the boutique investment bank, which has significantly increased headcount in recent years as part of its European expansion.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q1 2020 6 EUROPEAN PRIVATE EQUITY MOVES latterly focusing on IB Coverage of Family Investment Firms – EMEA. PRIVATE EQUITY: INVESTMENT PROFESSIONALS LLCP has hired Josh Kaufman and Luc Sandmann Advent International has hired Nicolas as an MD and AD respectively. They will be based in Chavanne from Towerbrook Capital Partners as London and work on structured equity investments Head of its European Retail, Consumer and Leisure across the UK and Northern Europe. team. Daniel Berglund has been promoted to Partner Graeme Ferguson has joined AMP Capital as an at Nordic Capital, focusing on Technology, Payments Investment Director and Head of Airports for Europe. and Healthcare IT. He originally joined the firm in 2010 The US$140bn Australian asset manager is co-owner as an Investment Manager from Bain & Company. of London, Luton and Newcastle airports, and owner of Leeds Bradford airport. Ferguson was previously PRIVATE EQUITY: UK VC, SMALL-CAP & LOWER a Corporate Development Director at Manchester MID-CAP Airports Group. Apiary Capital has promoted Jeniv Shah to Partner Ardian has hired Daniel Graf von der Schulenburg and Thomas Alldred to Investment Director. as an MD from 3i Group. Schulenburg will join the Frankfurt office on April 1st as Head of Infrastructure for Avedon Capital has promoted Alexi Wenge to Partner. Germany. He joined the firm at its inception in 2011.

PE firm bd-capital has appointed former KKR Stephen Green and Richard Tudor have set up Averna executive Alejo Vidal-Quadras de Caralt as a Partner. Capital, a new PE firm targeting European businesses. He will lead the fund’s Southern European investment The pair previously worked together at Apax Partners. activities. Pierre-Edouard Harant will also join them from RPD International. Black Diamond Capital Management has appointed Rodney Cohen as Head of PE. Cohen, most recently, UK-headquartered Bowmark Capital has hired Roy was an MD and Co-head of Carlyle Group’s Carlyle Mani and Alex McRae from CapVest as it seeks to Equity Opportunity Funds I and II; Cohen will have deploy its fourth buyout fund. They join as a Partner similar responsibilities at Black Diamond, managing the and Investment Executive respectively. BDCM Opportunity Funds II, III, IV, and V. Giles Corner has joined Caledonia Private Capital as Blackstone Infrastructure Partners has hired a Director after 16 and a half years at Lazard. Corner Jonathan Kelly from Brookfield. Kelly will join was previously an MD advising clients across a range Blackstone’s London office in April as a Senior MD of sectors while developing Lazard’s UK mid-market PE and Head of European Infrastructure. Kelly is the first capability. infrastructure hire Blackstone has made in Europe. Pan-European firm Capital D has hired Daryl Cohen as Core Equity Holdings has hired Pierre Heinrichs from a Director from Inflexion Private Equity. The firm has Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) also appointed Boniface Molnar and Yoan Pashov as as a Partner. Previously, he was an MD at CDPQ in an Analyst and Associate respectively. its direct private equity team. Olivier Aretz and Pierre Laffineur also join the firm as VPs. Previously, Aretz UK-based Elaghmore has expanded its investment was an MD in the products team at Dümmen Orange. team with two new Director hires, Jon Rawlings and Laffineur formerly served as Chief Financial and Michael Rice, as they continue to organically grow Operating Officer atD’Ieteren Auto, a distributor of car through value creation. Rawlings joins from KPMG brands such as Volkswagen. where he held roles including Commercial Director and COO. Rice joins after 10 years at Leeds-based PE IK Investment Partners has hired Tom Salmon from investor Endless. Duke Street Private Equity as its first UK-based Partner, focusing on the small-cap segment. Keensight Capital has hired Arjan Hannink as a Director from Agilitas Private Equity and Léa Anne Niederstätter has joined Keyhaven Capital Najmark as an Analyst from Ardian. Partners as a Partner in London. Previously, Niederstätter worked at JP Morgan, where she was

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Fiona Blakemore has been appointed by Balderton Capital as a CFO. Blakemore joins after almost 17 years at Man Group where she was latterly Head of Investor Relations & Business Finance.

Dunedin has expanded its research and direct origination team with the appointment of Claire Blackhall and James Morrison, who join from KPMG and Voyager Solutions, respectively.

Sumit Rajpal and Andrew Wolff, the two heads of Goldman Sachs’s flagship private investing business, have left the firm. Wolff spent 22 years at Goldman, primarily managing the merchant bank’s overseas operations. He spent six years in Asia before relocating to London in 2012. Rajpal joined Goldman in 2000 and was named one of the youngest partners in 2010.

Hamilton Lane has promoted Jim Strang to the newly created position of Chairman – EMEA. Richard Hope, who is currently an MD, will succeed Strang as leader of the EMEA business and Head of the London office.

LDC has made several senior promotions as part Searchlight Capital Partners has hired distressed of its commitment to invest £1.2bn in mid-market debt specialist Andrew Crowston as a Senior Advisor. firms. Andy Grove has been appointed as CIO, Crowston joined from Novalpina Capital, where he with John Garner replacing him as National Head of was a Partner and worked on the PE and special New Business. Jonathan Bell has been promoted from situations fund. Head of the North West to Head of the North. Universities Superannuation Scheme has named Livingbridge has added four individuals to its investment Dame Kate Barker as Chair of the £68bn pension teams. Isabelle Hemington, Tom Reece and Taha scheme for university lecturers and higher education Bakhtiyar are joining the firm as ADs in London, staff. Dame Kate, a former Chief Economic Adviser to Manchester and Boston, respectively. Hemington joins the CBI and former member of the Bank of England’s from 3i, where she focused on investing in the travel, Monetary Policy Committee, will succeed David leisure and consumer sectors. Reece has been hired Eastwood, who will retire from the USS board in August. from Livingstone Partners after spending four years in the M&A Advisory team. Bakhtiyar previously worked PRIVATE EQUITY: OPERATING PARTNERS & at Long Ridge Equity Partners in New York and at PORTFOLIO VALUE CREATION McKinsey. Meanwhile, Guy Simon joins the London office as an Investment Manager. He previously held Ian Read, former Chief Executive of Pfizer, the roles at ECI Partners and Strategic Analytics. pharmaceutical company, has joined Carlyle as an Operating Executive in the Global healthcare division Mayfair Equity Partners has hired Neil Price as an of the Nasdaq-listed alternative investment manager. MD. Previously, Price was Head of Strategic Debt Carlyle has already invested more than US$13bn in 50 Finance & Capital Structure Advisory at Lloyds Bank. healthcare deals.

Nazca Capital has appointed Ramón Garnica and Foresight has appointed former RES global Director Emilio Manchón as Partners of the firm. Both have over Steven Hughes as a Director and Head of Portfolio in 10 years’ experience with the Spanish fund manager. its asset management team.

Sovereign Capital has hired Emma Flin from Capita. YFM Equity Partners has recruited Roux She will be an Investment Director and focus on the Brits as a Portfolio Director from growth debt fund business, technology and information sectors. manager BOOST&CO.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q1 2020 8 PRIVATE EQUITY: INVESTOR RELATIONS the role. Nimmo will be replaced by Andrew Paisley, who is currently Deputy Head of Smaller Companies. Apax Partners in France has hired Raphaël Bazin as Nimmo will continue to manage Aberdeen Standard a Director. The group has also appointed Joséphine Investments’ UK Smaller Companies fund, the Standard Loréal, who will be in charge of third-party distribution Life UK Smaller Companies Trust and other UK smaller clients in the Investor Relations team. company portfolios. He will also co-manage the company’s soon-to-be-launched Global Mid Cap Aviva Investors, the £346bn asset management Strategy alongside Anjli Shah. arm of the UK-listed insurer Aviva, has expanded its distribution team. Apiramy Jeyarajah joins as Head Finnish eQ Asset Management has hired Elina of UK Wholesale along with Rula Ipsaryaris as Head Tourunen from the European Investment Fund as it of Client Solutions for Switzerland and Liechtenstein. prepares to launch two PE . Tourunen will They join from HSBC and Vanguard respectively. join the firm as an Investment Director.

HIG Capital has hired Jack Macfarlane and Anila Canada’s IMCO has lost its Head of Private Thompson to its capital formation group to help with Markets, Nicole Musicco, who left for “personal and investor relations for its real asset strategies. They join professional reasons”. from Lazard and JLL respectively. Kempen Capital Management, the €73bn Dutch asset Moravia Capital has hired Harry Lambert as a Partner. manager, has hired Anne Mei Poppe as an Alternative Previously Lambert was Head of Capital Raising and Investment Specialist. Poppe joins from Dynamic Fund Investment at DeBere Capital Partners. Credit.

Standard Life Aberdeen, the £526bn Edinburgh- Nest, UK’s national , have recruited Jennie based asset manager, has named Aileen Mathieson Austin and Jaap van Dam for its investment committee; as Global Head of . She replaces Stephen the first members from outside the scheme’s governing Acheson who has retired. Mathieson, who joined in trustee board. Austin is a former fund manager at the BT April 2019 from Zurich Insurance, will also retain her Pension Scheme and Van Dam, the Head of Investment role as Global Head of Strategic Platform Investment at Dutch pension fund PGGM. Solutions. PineBridge Investments is opening an office in WisdomTree, a US$63bn New York-listed exchange Sweden and has hired Viggo Johansen from Natixis traded fund provider, has expanded its UK sales Investment Managers to spearhead the build. The new team. Ravinder Azad has been hired as Head of UK branch will be located in Stockholm. Johansen, Head of and Nordic Sales from Invesco. Sam Coppell and Nordics, will focus on expanding the firm’s share of the Cameron Trundle take sales support roles after moving institutional investment market and will be responsible from BlackRock and Last Word Media, respectively. for PineBridge’s sales and distribution strategy in the region. PRIVATE EQUITY: PRIMARY FUND INVESTMENT & NON-DIRECT INVESTMENT

Aberdeen Standard Investments has announced that Harry Nimmo will step down as Global Head of Smaller Companies after almost three decades in

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