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'Musical Chairs' Q4 2020

'Musical Chairs' Q4 2020

‘Musical Chairs’ Q4 2020

CREDIT P. 2–7 | P. 7–10 | P. 11–13 EUROPEAN CREDIT MOVES will lead the firm’s Capital Markets business in the Americas, Asia and EMEA. Kapadia joins from JP CREDIT: Morgan where he was latterly an MD in its based Leveraged Finance team. of America’s Head of Debt Capital Markets and Leveraged Finance – EMEA, Jeff Tannenbaum, has MUFG has named Darryl D’Souza as Head of been promoted to Head of Global Capital Markets Sponsor Coverage – EMEA. D’Souza will report to – EMEA. In his new role, he will have additional Matteo Ferrario, Head of Distribution & FIG Coverage responsibilities for derivatives and equity capital markets – EMEA. Previously, D’Souza was Head of Financial and will report to Jim O’Neil, Head of Corporate and Sponsors – Structured Finance. Investment Banking, and Elif Bilgi and Sarang Gadkari, New York based Co-Heads of Global Capital Markets. Borja González-Lahore Pfeiffer has joined Oldenburgische Landesbank as a Senior Advisor for Sofia Lonnqvist has joined BNP Paribas as an Acquisition and Fund Finance. Previously, González- originator in its DCM FIG team covering the Nordics Lahore Pfeiffer was a Director in the Leveraged Finance from Stockholm. Lonnqvist was previously a Director in team at Mizuho focused on fund financing. the DCM FIG team at Barclays, were she also covered the Nordics. Santander has hired Louis L’Heureux as an MD and Head of its growing Leveraged Finance business. has hired Julia Perroni as an MD and L’Heureux joins from MUFG where he was an MD and Head of Leveraged Finance – France, based in Paris. Head of Sponsor Leveraged Finance – EMEA. Perroni joins from Groupe Casino where she was Deputy Head of Corporate Finance. Credit Suisse has Santander has also hired Ed Bailey as an ED in its also hired Hans Narberhaus as an MD in its EMEA Coverage team. Bailey will be based Leveraged Finance Origination team to lead its business in and report to Ancor Monferrer, MD and in Spain. Based in Madrid, Narberhaus joins from Nortia Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage at Santander. Business Corporation. Perroni and Narberhaus Bailey joins from ING where he was a Director in its will work closely with Fabien Antignac, Head of EU London based Leveraged Finance team. Leveraged Finance, and report to Nishan Srinivasan, Global Co-Head of Leveraged Finance Origination. Tim Ellwood has joined SMBC’s London based Leveraged Finance team as a VP. Ellwood previously JP Morgan has named Daniel Rudnicki Schlumberger worked at Tikehau Capital where he was a VP in as sole Head of Leveraged Finance – EMEA. Rudnicki the London based Private Debt team. Before joining was previously Co-Head of Leveraged Finance – EMEA Tikehau, he was a Senior Associate in Bank of alongside Stefan Povaly who has now been appointed Ireland’s Mid-Market Leveraged Finance team. country Head for Germany. UBS has named Ed Mulderrig as Head of Debt KDB Asia Limited has hired Eric Jenkins as Head Syndicate – EMEA. Mulderrig, a FIG specialist, will of Financial Sponsors and Leveraged Finance – report to Armin Peter, Global Head of Debt Syndicate. APAC (ex-Korea), based in . Jenkins was previously a Director in Lloyds’s London based CREDIT: FUNDS Leveraged Finance team. Ambassador Capital Partners has hired Sagar Macquarie has hired Tatiana Ozherelyeva as an AD Kandhari to focus on Special Situations and Private in its Leveraged Finance Credit team, based in London. Credit. Kandhari was previously a VP in the Private Ozherelyeva joins from H4 where she was a Strategy Credit team at HPS. Director. Ozherelyeva was previously an in ED in JP Morgan’s London based Leveraged Finance team Claes Styren has joined AnaCap Financial Partners as an Investment Director in the Credit team. Styren Michael Nonnenmacher has joined as was previously a VP in Alcentra’s London based Direct a VP in its Leveraged Finance team in Milan, following Lending team. a Masters in Corporate Finance. He was previously an Associate in ’s London based Global Apollo has hired Olli Karjalainen as a Principal, Capital Markets team. based in London. Karjalainen joins from H.I.G. Bayside Capital’s team where he was latterly a Director focusing MUFG has hired Rajesh Kapadia as International on special situations. Head of Capital Markets, basd in New York. Kapadia

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q4 2020 2 Arcmont has hired Christian Investment Director for Real Estate Debt, reporting to Roessling as Head of Business Development – Christophe Montcerisier, Head of Real Estate Debt – DACH. Roessling joins from Barings, where he was Europe. Linot will be based in Paris and joins from Aviva an AD in its Business Development team focusing on Investors where he was latterly Head of Real Estate Germany and Austria. Roessling has relocated from Finance – Continental Europe. Mohamed El Jani has London to Munich. Arcmont has also hired Elisabeth joined as an Investment Manager in its Structured zu Löwenstein from Barings as an Investment Finance team, reporting to Michel Fryszman, Head of Associate. Zu Löwenstein previously worked in the Structured Finance. El Jani joins from BNP Paribas Private Finance team at Barings. CIB, where he was a Quantitative Analyst in its Credit Portfolio Management Solutions team. Mike Freno has been named CEO and Chairman at Barings. He replaces Tom Finke who retired at the GSO Capital Partners has rebranded as Blackstone end of last year. Freno was named President at the firm Credit following the departure of the last Founding in February and is set to retain that role alongside his Partner, Bennet Goodman. new responsibilities. Harris Chung has joined Cairn Capital as a Senior Blackstar Capital has hired Simon Smart as Head of Credit Analyst. Chung was previously a Director in Bank Credit and Special Situations. Smart has been a Senior of America’s London based Leveraged Finance team. Advisor at Blackstar Capital for the last year and was previously Head of Reinsurance Principal Investments Carlyle’s business development company TCG BDC at BTG Pactual. Blackstar has also hired James Paul and Cliffwater have formed a US$250mn joint venture as a Portfolio Manager. Paul joins from 23 Capital, to focus on Mid-Market Direct Lending. The vehicle will where he was latterly a Portfolio Manager focusing be called Middle Market Credit Fund II (MMCF II). TCG on Structured Finance across the Sport, Music and BDC will have 84% equity ownership with Cliffwater Entertainment sectors. owning the remaining 16%.

BlueBay Asset Management has hired Adam Phillips Rakesh Pavithran has joined Credit Suisse Asset as a Partner and Head of Developed Market Special Management as a Director. Pavithran was until Situations. Phillips will be based in London and report recently a member of Credit Suisse’s London based to Mark Dowding, Chief Investment Officer. Phillips Financial Sponsors team. joins from Blantyre Capital where he was Head of Investments. CVC Credit Partners has hired John Empson as a Partner and Co-Head of Private Credit. Empson BNP Paribas AM has made a number of hires across its joins from BlackRock where he was Head of EMEA Private Debt teams. Stefanie Passet has been named BlackRock Capital Markets and Global Head of Investment Director for Infrastructure Debt, reporting Alternatives Co-Investment. Miguel Toney has also to Karen Azoulay, Head of Infrastructure Debt. She joined CVC as a Partner in its Private Credit team. will be based in Paris and joins from Credit Agricole Toney joins from Park Square Capital, where he was CIB where she was an ED in its Infrastructure Capital a Partner focusing on their European Junior Capital Markets team. Romain Linot has been appointed strategy, based in London.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q4 2020 3 Hayfin has hired Diego Jimenez-Blanco as an Loomis Sayles & Company has hired a European Investment Professional based in its London office. Credit team from Kempen Capital Management. Jimenez-Blanco joins from Cerberus Capital The eight-person strong team will be based in Utrecht, Management. Hayfin has also hired Max Tan as an Netherlands, and will be led by lead Portfolio Managers Investment Associate in its Special Situations team. Rik den Hartog and Pim van Mourik Broekman. The Tan was previously an Associate in the London based other members of the team are Portfolio Managers Luuk M&A FIG team at and prior to that Cummins, Sipke Moes, Quirijn Landman, Marco a member of the bank’s London based Leveraged Zanotto and Ronald Schep. Jeroen Potma joins as Finance team. a Product Manager. They will run three strategies: Loomis Sayles Euro Investment Grade Credit, Loomis HPS Investment Partners has hired Peter Atkinson Sayles Euro Sustainable Investment Grade Credit and as an MD, based in London. Atkinson joins from GIC Loomis Sayles Euro High Yield. where he was an SVP and Head of Direct Investments in its Private Credit Group. The fund has also hired Next Wave Partners has appointed Marc Preiser as a Rachel Zagajewski as an ED from Park Square Senior Advisor. Preiser was formerly Head of European Capital where she was latterly a VP. Private Credit at Apollo.

Hunter Point Capital has been launched by Bennett Ostrum Asset Management has hired Paris based Goodman and Avi Kalichstein, who will take the roles Alexandre Caminade as Chief Investment Officer of of Executive Chairman and CEO, respectively. Hunter Fixed Income. Caminade joins from La Banque Postale Point Capital will invest in minority stakes in middle Asset Management, where he was latterly Head of market alternative asset managers. Goodman was Fixed Income, , Credit & Convertibles. previously a Founder of GSO Capital Partners and Kalichstein joins from Easterly Partners Group where Owl Rock Capital has hired its first employee in its he was a Managing Principal. newly opened London offices. MD Amy Ward will lead the charge helping to develop the fund’s relationships IK Investment Partners has hired Pauline Lloret as in the UK and Europe. Ward joins from Pollen Street an Associate in its London based Capital Markets team. Capital, where she was a Partner focusing on Investor Lloret will be supporting former JP Morgan colleague Relations. Thierry Aoun and joins from Barings, where she was an Associate in its Private Finance team.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q4 2020 4 Permira Debt Managers has hired three individuals CREDIT: ADVISORY for its Direct Lending Strategy. Laura Repko joins as an AD from Beechbrook Capital’s Private Debt AlixPartners has hired Joe O’Connor as a senior team, Lukas Wetzel joins as Investment Professional member of its London based Restructuring team. He from Goldman Sachs’s London based IB Industrials joins from EY where he was a Partner in its Transaction team, and Rasmus Borowski joins as an Investment & Advisory Services team. O’Connor will be reunited Professional and member of the Direct Lending with former EY Transaction & Advisory Services Portfolio Monitoring Group from KPMG, where he was Partners Jessica Clayton and Lee Watson who both latterly an Assistant Manager. joined AlixPartners earlier in 2020.

Steve Logan has joined PGIM as a Senior Portfolio Alvarez & Marsal has hired Floris Hovingh as the Manager in its European Leveraged Finance team. second MD in its newly established Debt Advisory He will report into the Head of European Leveraged business. Based in London, Hovingh will be working Finance, Jonathan Butler. Logan was previously Head together with Tim Metzgen, who was hired in 2019 as of European High Yield and Global Loans at Aberdeen Head of Debt Advisory. Hovingh joins from Deloitte, Standard and led a team which also covered direct where he was a Partner and Head of Alternative Capital lending and euro convertibles. Solutions.

PGIM Real Estate has hired Henri Vuong as an ED Alvarez & Marsal has also hired Michael Magnay and Head of Real Estate Debt Investment Research. and Laurence Morgan into its Financial Restructuring Vuong will be based in London and joins from INREV, Advisory team. Magnay and Morgan both join from the European association for Investors in Non-Listed Deloitte; Magnay was latterly a Partner and led its Real Estate Vehicles, where he was Director of Scottish Restructuring business and Morgan was Research and Market Information. a Director in its London based Creditor Advisory Restructuring team. Natalia Nowak, formerly an MD in CVC’s London based Private Debt team, has joined Proventus Jad Sader has joined Amala Partners as an ED Capital Partners as an MD. focused on Debt Advisory. Sader joins from ’s Paris based Leveraged Finance team. Värde Partners has promoted Partners Andy Lenk and Jon Fox to Deputy CEO and President of the Axis Arbor Partners, an independent debt advisory firm, respectively. Lenk was previously Global Head firm, was launched in October by Marlborough of Strategy and Portfolio Operations and Fox, Global Partners alumnus Gurjit Bedi together with team Head of Business Development and Investor Relations. members Holly Bott, Jochem Bron, Roeland Stolker and Ibrahim Abdelhalim. Bedi is Managing Partner of Vesper Investissement has hired Thomas Hervé the firm, Bott an MD and Bron a Director. as an Investment Professional, based in Paris. Hervé joins from LGT Capital Partners where he was an AD in its Private Debt team.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q4 2020 5 Catherine Baulamon has founded her own investment Perella Weinberg Partners has hired Daniel Doyle research and advisory firm Black Robin Group. as a Director in its Restructuring team. Doyle will report London based Baulamon was previously a Portfolio to Partner and Team Head Clinton Ray and be based Manager for Convertible Bonds at Lombard Odier in London. Doyle joins from FTI Consulting where he Investment Managers. was a Senior Director in its London based Restructuring team. Prior to joining FTI early in 2020, Doyle worked Cavendish Corporate Finance has hired Jamie in the Restructuring team at Guggenheim Partners in Blewitt as Head of its new Alternative Capital division. New York. Blewitt will be responsible for covering Family Offices and funds. Blewitt joins from Rothschild Guido Lorenzi has joined Milan based advisory & Co, where he was latterly a Director focusing on firm QuattroR Sgr SpA as a Partner. Lorenzi was Private Capital. previously a Principal in H.I.G. Capital’s Private Credit team and based in Milan. DC Advisory has hired Maxime Leclercq as an ED in its Paris office. The team in Paris focuses on M&A, Rothschild & Co has hired Caroline Kracke as an Debt Advisory and Restructuring. Leclercq joins from AD in its Real Estate Debt Advisory team. Kracke joins Rothschild & Co’s Paris office where he was a Director from where she was a VP in the Debt & Capital focusing on Debt Advisory and Restructuring. Structure Advisory team.

Goldman Sachs has hired Matthew Whiting as a Paul Carruthers has joined THM Partners as a Director senior member of its Restructuring team. Whiting joins focused on Restructuring. Carruthers was previously a from where he was an MD and Co-Head of Director in the London based Restructuring & Special Restructuring – EMEA. Situations team at KPMG.

Edward Drayton, an ED in Goldman Sachs’s CREDIT: OTHER Leveraged Finance team, has moved internally into the bank’s Restructuring team, which sits alongside the Kerimcan Oral has joined digital coaching platform Leveraged Finance team. CoachHub as CFO in Berlin. He was previously CFO at Medigo GmBH and prior to that a VP in Bain Capital JEGI | CLARITY, an international corporate finance Credit’s London based team. advisory firm, has hired Vangelis Livanis as an MD in its Debt Advisory team. Livanis joins from Zeus Diagonal Capital, a and advisor to an Capital, where he was also focused on Debt Advisory. evergreen investment company, has hired Christophe Vulliez as a Partner in Paris. Vulliez was previously KPMG has appointed Baréma Bocoum as Head of Head of Direct Lending – France at Arcmont Asset Restructuring for France, based in Paris. Bocoum was Management. previously a Partner in its Advisory Services team. Benjamin Pitoun has joined family office JCVcap as Lazard has hired Sam Whittaker as an MD in its Head of Investment, based in Paris. Pitoun joins from UK Restructuring practice. Whittaker will be based Cambon Partners where he was a VP. in London and provide senior support to the team alongside MD and Co-Head of EMEA Restructuring, Globe Invest, the single-family office for Teddy Sagi, David Burlison. Whittaker re-joins Lazard after five has hired Pierre-Etienne Lallia as an MD. Lallia joins years at PJT Partners, where he was an MD in its from Nomura where he was an MD in its London based EMEA Restructuring group. James Simpson has also Leveraged Finance team. joined the London based team as a Director. Simpson joins from Gresham Partners where he was an AD in its Debt Solutions Group, based in Sydney.

Lazard has also hired Greg Johnson as a VP in its London based Debt & Advisory team, reporting to Tom Howard, MD, Debt & Capital Structure Advisory. Johnson was formerly Head of Corporate Finance at ContourGlobal.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q4 2020 6 EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANKING MOVES will be led by Naveed Sultan who will hold the role of Chairman of the firm’s Institutional Client Group (ICG). INVESTMENT BANKING: BANKS Crédit Agricole has named Jean-François Balaÿ, Bank of America has named Fernando Vicario as Olivier Bélorgey and Pierre Gay as Deputy CEOs. Head of European Union Banking. Vicario will also They take over from Francois Marion, previously sole become County Executive for Ireland (Bank of America Deputy CEO, who retires later this year. Europe DAC), based in Dublin. Vicario has spent over 25 years at Bank of America, most recently as Head Credit Suisse has hired Chris Williams as a Vice of EU Corporate and Investment Banking and Head of Chairman of its FIG Group, he will be responsible Corporate Banking – EMEA, based in Paris. The latter for growing Credit Suisse’s FIG business in EMEA. role will be taken over by Richard King, who will also Williams rejoins Credit Suisse from Perella Weinberg continue in his current role as Co-Head of Corporate Partners where he was a Partner in its Advisory and Investment Banking – UK and Ireland alongside business. Williams will report to Alejandro Przygoda, Matt Cannon. Vicario replaces Bruce Thompson, who Global Head of FIG Investment Banking and Henrik has held the roles since 2017, and now moved to lead Aslaksen, Executive Chairman of Capital Markets and the firms Institutional Credit Exposure Management Advisory. Group, based in the US. Simeon Stevens has been named as Head of UK Corporate Banking. Credit Suisse has also hired Christian Meissner as Co-Head of International Barclays has hired Gauthier Le Milon as Head of Investment Banking Advisory and Vice-Chairman M&A for France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Le Milon of Investment Banking. Meissner has relocated to will be based in Paris and report to Yann Krychowski Zurich from the US and will work closely with Babak and Ghislain de Brondeau, Co-Heads of Banking Dastmaltschi, Co-Head of International Wealth – France, Belgium & Luxembourg and Pier Luigi Management Investment Banking Advisory. Meissner Colizzi, Head of M&A – EMEA. Le Milon joins from joins from Bank of America, where he was Global BNP Paribas where he was an MD focusing on M&A Head of Corporate and Investment Banking. – EMEA. Credit Suisse has hired António Horta-Osório as its Barclays has hired Philipp Gillmann as an MD and next Chairman, replacing outgoing Urs Rohner. Horta- Head of Logistics – EMEA, based in Frankfurt. Gillmann Osório will take up his new position at the end of April joins from Rothschild & Co where he was latterly an 2021 and joins from Lloyds Bank, where he was CEO. MD.

BNP Paribas has hired Reinhard Kuehn as an MD and Co-Head of Automotive – EMEA, based in Frankfurt. Kuehn has relocated from in London, where he was latterly an MD focusing on Automotive & Capital Goods.

Citi has hired Peter Kimpel as Head of Banking, Capital Markets & Advisory – Germany & Austria, based in Frankfurt. Kimpel joins from Barclays and replaces Stefan Wintels who will continue to hold the roles of Global Co-Head of FIG, Vice Chairman – Germany and Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board for Global Markets Europe.

Citi has named Lars Ingemarsson and Alex Stiris as Co-Heads of its Banking, Capital Markets & Advisory unit for the Nordics. Previously, Ingemarsson held the role of Co-Head of Investment Banking for the Nordics and Stiris, Head of Nordic Corporate Banking and Country Head for Sweden.

Citi has set up a Strategy and Advisory unit to focus on advising governments on digital policy. The unit

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q4 2020 7 Goldman Sachs has named Richard Cormack and Morgan Stanley has hired Cailin McGurk as an MD Nimesh Khiroya as Co-Heads of UK Investment in its Healthcare Advisory team, based in London. Banking. They will retain their previous titles, Khiroya McGurk joins from UBS, where she was an MD in its as Head of Activism and Shareholder Advisory – EMEA Healthcare Investment Banking team. and Cormack as Co-Head of ECM, alongside their new roles. Christopher Stanger has been promoted Natixis has named Anne-Christine Champion and from Co-Head of ECM – EMEA to Chairman of ECM Mohamed Kallala as Co-Heads of CIB. Previously, – EMEA, with Antoine de Guillenchmidt taking up Champion was Head of Real Assets, and Kallala, Head Stanger’s previous role of Co-Head of ECM – EMEA of Global Markets. They have also joined the senior alongside Cormack. management committee.

Goldman Sachs has hired Marguerite Bion as an MD UBS has named Vinod Vasan as Vice Chair of its in its EMEA FIG Group, based in London. Bion joins Investment Bank. Vasan is based in London and will from Barclays where she was an MD focusing on the report to Javier Oficialdegui, Co-Head of Global European Insurance sector. Bion will report to Dirk Banking, and Brendan Connolly, Global Head of Lievens, Partner and Head of FIG – Europe. Public Capital Markets. Vinod was previously Co-Head of DCM and Client Solutions Coverage – EMEA and Following Greg Lemkau’s exit to head MSD Capital, will continue to cover Financial Institutions – UK, the Michael Dell’s family office, Goldman Sachs has Nordics and the Netherlands. named Jim Esposito as Co-Head of its Global Investment Bank. Esposito will work closely alongside UBS has hired Sandro Galfetti as an MD and Head fellow Co-Head Dan Dees, who is based in Los of EMEA Secondary Advisory. Galfetti joins from Angeles. PJT Partners where he was an MD in its Secondary Advisory team. HSBC has appointed Vikas Seth as Vice Chairman within its Global Markets business, reporting to Greg Guyett, Co-Head of Global Banking & Markets. Seth joins from Credit Suisse where he was Global Head of Emerging Markets.

JP Morgan has named Stefan Povaly as Country Head for Germany. Povaly was previously Co-Head of EMEA Leveraged Finance Origination. Previous Co-Heads of Corporate Finance Coverage, Tobias Heilmaier and Michele Iozzolino have been named Co-Heads of Investment Banking – Germany and will report to Povaly.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q4 2020 8 INVESTMENT BANKING: GLOBAL ADVISORY & GCA Altium has named MD Adrian Reed as Head of BOUTIQUES its Manchester office. GCA Altium’s Manchester office is one of the UK’s largest dedicated M&A Advisory Alantra has hired Francesco Dissera as an MD teams outside London, consisting of a team of 21. and Head of Securitisation. Dissera will lead the new unit focusing on European Corporates, Banks and GCA Altium has also hired Dr. Jules Wurlod as Governments alongside James Fadel, who leads Director of ESG, a newly created role for the firm, the firm’s Credit Portfolio Advisory practice. Dissera based in Lausanne. Wurlod joins from BCG where he relocated from Milan to London to take up his new role, was a Management Consultant. joining from where he was Head of Continental Europe Securitization. Greenhill has named MDs Bernhard Engelien and Briac Houteville as Global Co-Heads of Secondary Berenberg has hired Dominik Bär as Head of Advisory. This comes following the recent departure Investment Banking – DACH, reporting to Fabien of Stephen Sloan and subsequently his replacement de Smet, Head of Investment Banking – Continental Todd Miller to Portfolio Advisors and Jefferies, Europe. Bär joins from Lazard where he was an MD respectively. focusing on the DACH region. Jefferies’s Global Head of Investment Banking and Campbell Lutyens has hired Yannick Mir as a VP in Capital Markets Ben Lorello has retired. He will be its Secondaries team. Mir joins from Greenhill & Co replaced on an interim basis by LA-based Chris where he was a VP in its Secondaries Advisory team Kanoff, who was previously Co-Head of Investment in London. Banking.

Cavendish Corporate Finance has named John Lazard has strengthened its UK Financial Advisory Farrugia as Managing Partner. Farrugia succeeds business with the addition of Makinson Cowell, an Tom Hayward who had held the role since Cavendish’s investor consultancy business previously owned by merger with finnCap in 2018. Hayward will continue in KPMG. The unit will work as a separate team within his role as Group COO. Mark Kingston has been hired Lazard and be led by MDs Bob Cowell and Howard as a Director focusing on M&A in the Human Capital Coates. They will focus on providing capital markets sector. Kingston will be based in London and joins from and investor relations advice. Boxington Corporate Finance where he was latterly a Director.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q2 2020 9 Oppenheimer & Co has hired James Murray as Raymond James has hired Terry Huffine as an MD an MD in its Global Consumer Investment Banking in its Consumer & Retail practice. Huffine is based group. Murray will be based in London and report in London and joins from where he led the to Emmanuel Durand, Global Head of Consumer European Consumer Goods practice. Investment Banking, and Max Lami, European CEO. Murray joins from KPMG where he was a Partner and Rothchild & Co has hired Andrei Brougham and Head of Consumer M&A. Alvaro Rosado as an MD and a Director, respectively. The pair are to be based in London and focus on sponsor- Panmure Gordon has hired Stephen Winningham led secondaries, reporting to Christopher Hawley, MD as Chairman of its Investment Bank, reporting to and Head of Strategic Capital. Brougham and Rosado Rich Ricci, CEO. Winningham joins from Houlihan join from PJT Partners, where they were Directors, and Lokey where he was Co-Head of European Corporate will start their new roles at Rothschild in Q2. Finance. INVESTMENT BANKING: OTHER PJT Partners has hired Patrick Freier as a Director, based in Frankfurt. Freier joins from Citi, where he was Temenos has hired Donovan Geissel as Head of a VP in its M&A team. M&A, based in London. Geissel joins from Citi, where he was a Director focusing on the Technology sector. PJT Partners has also hired Debra Kelsall as a Director in its Secondary Advisory business, based in London. Kelsall joins from Goldman Sachs where she worked within its Alternative Capital Solutions team.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q2 2020 10 EUROPEAN PRIVATE EQUITY MOVES Placement Agent Capstone Partners has hired Tiffany Howard (née Bourgoin-Heskia) as a Principal Alvarez & Marsal Capital, a multi-strategy private to focus on fundraising and client origination across equity investment firm, has hired Alessandro Luongo the UK, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Portugal, Italy as an MD in its London based team. Luongo joins from and Spain. Howard joins from Quest Fund Placement Investindustrial where he was a Partner focused on where she was latterly a VP focusing on raising capital distressed debt and private equity investments in the for mid-market PE funds across Europe and the US. Consumer, Retail, Services, and Media sectors, based in Lugano, Switzerland. Earth Capital has hired Avent Bezuidenhoudt and Dr. Simon Crook as Investment Directors in the Nobel Ardian has hired Scarlett Omar Broca and Heiko Sustainability Fund, based in London. Bezuidenhoudt Geissler as MDs in its team, reporting to joins from The FSE Group where she was latterly Philippe Poletti, CEO – France and Head of Ardian a Senior Fund Manager, and Crook joins from Buyout. They will be based in Paris and Frankfurt, Greensphere Capital where he was an Operating respectively, and join in Q1 2021. Broca joins from Partner focusing on Biomass Power Plants. Goldman Sachs, where she was an MD in its Corporate Private Equity team, focusing on the French Expedition Growth Capital has hired Charles Covell market. Geissler joins from Montagu Private Equity, as an Investment Director focusing on Software. Covell where he was latterly a Director. There have been a will be based in London and joins from Grafton Capital, number of senior promotions in the team; in the Paris where he was an Investment Director. office Nicolas Darnaud and Emmanuel Miquel have been promoted to MDs and in the Milan office, Marco Graphite Capital has strengthened its UK Mid-Market Bellino has also been promoted to MD. focused Investment team. Lara Markham has been promoted to Investment Director. May Sulaiman and BGF has hired Fiona Dornan as part of its Scotland Zoe Jackson have joined the team as an Investment and Northern Ireland Investment team, based in Manager and Investment Executive, respectively. Edinburgh. Dornan joins from PwC, where she was a Sulaiman joins from Interritus, where she was an Manager focusing on Corporate Finance. Investment Manager, and Jackson from AGC Equity Partners where she was an Investment Associate. Blackstone Strategic Partners has hired Nik Morandi as an MD and Head of Europe. Morandi will be based Gulf Capital has hired Kaiser Jasrai as an MD and in London and report to Verdun Perry, Senior MD and Head of Fundraising & Investor Relations for alternative Global Head of Strategic Partners. Morandi joins from asset classes. Jasrai will be based in London and CPPIB where he was a Senior Principal and European joins from where he was an MD in its Head of Secondaries. Distribution team, covering Middle Eastern, European and Global Investors. BMO GAM has hired Ashley-Anne Berry as a VP in its Private Equity team. Berry joins from Aberdeen Hamilton Lane has hired Alistair Galloway as a Standard Investments, where she was a Senior Principal. Galloway joins from Pantheon Ventures Investment Analyst in their Co-Investment team where he was latterly a Senior Relationship Manager. focusing on Europe.

Cadence Equity Partners has hired Bala Krishnan. Krishnan joins from Sovereign Capital Partners where he was Head of Technology & Health-Tech Investing.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q4 2020 11 Hg Capital has made several hires in its London L Catterton has hired Marina Jovanovic as Head office. Simon Comfort and Shiv Pabari have joined of Investor Relations – Europe, based in London. from Simon-Kucher & Partners as Associates in the Jovanovic joins from Rede Partners, where she was London based Portfolio team. Joshua Gielessen has a Principal in their European Investor Relations team. joined the Investment team from Goldman Sachs where he was an Associate focusing on Consumer, London CIV has hired Vanessa Shia as Head of Retail and Healthcare. Ekta Mehta has also joined Private Markets, based in London. Shia joins from the Investment team from where Pennant Capital Partners, where she worked on she was an Associate focusing on Data and Analytics. GP restructurings, LP and Single Asset deals across Julie Wende joins the Munich based Investment team, Private Credit and Private Equity. relocating to Germany from London, where she was latterly an Analyst at JP Morgan. Moonfare has hired Dr. Winson Ng as Chief Investment Officer. Ng joins from UBS Wealth Management where ICG has hired Chris Hunt as Head of Investor he was Head of Private Equity. Relations, with a focus on shareholder relations. Hunt will be based in London and joins from Goldman Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has hired Nick Sachs where he was a Director in its Cross-Market Jansa as Senior MD. Jansa will be based in London Group, focusing on EMEA. and report to Ziad Hindo, Chief Investment Officer. He will be responsible for leading investment activities KPMG’s Private Equity Group has bolstered its Partner and portfolio management in EMEA and joins from ranks with a number of new hires and promotions. Neil Deutsche Bank where he was an MD, Co-Head of Coomber and Luke Anderson have joined as Partners Corporate Finance – EMEA and Global Co-Head of from PwC and SAP, respectively. Coomber was latterly Leveraged Debt Capital Markets. The has a Partner in PwC’s Transaction Services team and also hired Ara Yeromian as a Senior Principal to focus Anderson led SAP’s EMEA Private Equity team. Adam on European Tech. Yeromian joins from Temasek, Sumner has been promoted to Partner, following a 20 where he was latterly an AD. year career with KPMG in Toronto and London. Dan Reinhold, who moved internally to join the Private Equity team earlier last year and leads the Portfolio Services team, has been named Associate Partner.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q4 2020 12 Riverside Acceleration Capital has hired Christian Spartan Advisors, an independent placement agent Stein and Michael Aring as a Partner and an Associate and specialised in raising capital for respectively, based in Cologne. Riverside Acceleration alternative fund managers, has hired Dominic Wood Capital provides growth capital to expansion-stage as a Director focusing on managing LP relationships B2B software and technology companies. The pair join across Europe and the Middle East. Wood is based in from coparion, a fund, where Stein London and reports to Benjamin Clarke, Managing was latterly an MD and Aring an Associate. Partner and Founder. Wood joins from MVision Private Equity Advisors where he was a VP. Sanne has hired Jan Barre as Director of Business Development – Luxembourg, based in Luxembourg. Trafigurahas hired Khodor Mattar as Head of Capital Barre joins from International Fund Services & Asset Development. Mattar will be based in Geneva and start Management S.A., where he was a Senior Business his new role in February 2021. Mattar will join from Development and Sales Manager. Temasek where he was latterly an MD focusing on the Americas. Iberian Private Equity fund Sherpa Capital has hired Isaac Lahuerta as an Investment Director Triton Partners has hired Laura Fruhmann as an in its Special Situations team. Lahuerta joins from Investment Advisory Professional in its Frankfurt Black Toro Capital, where he was latterly a Principal based team. Prior to joining Triton, Fruhman worked based in Barcelona. The fund has also hired Jose at Goldmans Sachs in both the German M&A team in Angel Medina as an Operating Partner in its Portfolio Frankfurt and the Bank Debt Portfolio Group in London. Management team. Angel Medina joins from Taghleef Industries where he was latterly COO – Europe.

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