‘Musical Chairs’ Q2 2020

CREDIT P. 2–7 | P. 7–9 | PRIVATE EQUITY P. 9–11 EUROPEAN CREDIT MOVES Damien Hedderwick has joined Macquarie’s EMEA Leveraged Finance team led by Camelia Robu who CREDIT: joined the business last year from HSBC. Hedderwick was most recently an ED in the Leveraged Finance Barclays has reshuffled its Leveraged Finance & team at UBS. Financial Sponsor Coverage leadership team. Two new Chmn have been appointed: Chris Turner, has hired Niklas Karlsson as a VP. formerly Head of Leveraged Finance & Financial He will be based in Stockholm. Karlsson joins from Sponsor Coverage – EMEA, has relocated to New , where he was a VP in the London based York to become Chmn of Global Leveraged Finance, Restructuring team. and Ken McGrath, formerly Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage – EMEA, has been named Chmn of Morgan Stanley has also hired Alessandro Mazza as Financial Sponsor Coverage – EMEA. Susana Leith- an MD in their Leveraged Finance team. Mazza joins Smith, previously Head of the TMT Leveraged Finance from , where he was latterly a newly vertical, has taken over the reins as Head of Leveraged promoted MD in the Capital Markets team. Finance – EMEA, and Andrew Richards has taken over as Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage – EMEA. Tommaso Dondi has also joined Morgan Stanley’s Turner will report to Jean-Francois Astier, Global Head Leveraged Finance team as an ED after more than of Capital Markets. Leith-Smith will report to Astier twelve years at J.P. Morgan. and Reid Marsh, Head of Banking for EMEA & APAC. McGrath & Richards will report to Marsh and Chris Poppy Russell has joined NatWest as a Senior Sullivan, Global Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage. Director. Russell was previously a Senior Director in the Restructuring team at Alvarez & Marsal. Alejandra Olarra Icaza has changed position internally at Credit Suisse and is now a member of the Financial Santander has promoted Conor Hennebry from Head Sponsor Coverage team and responsible for covering of European DCM and Syndicated Lending to Global the Spanish market. Head of DCM. Hennebry originally joined Santander in 2018 after eleven years at Deutsche . Lola Gonzales de Castejon an ED at Goldman Hennebry will be reporting to Rafael Noya who was Sachs, and previously a member of the Bank Debt recently appointed as Head of Global Debt Finance. Portfolio Group, has joined the Special Assets Group Noya replaces Ignacio Domínguez-Adame, who was that sits within the Global Markets division. promoted to CEO of Santander CIB – Iberia earlier this year. Ankur Vohra has joined ’ Leveraged Finance team as an ED. Vohra previously worked at Credit Suisse as a VP in the Financial Sponsor Coverage team.

Hugh Upcott Gill and Luis Leoncarsi have left Citi’s EMEA CLO division to join former Loan Syndicate Head Laura Coady in setting up a primary CLO operation at Jefferies.

Jefferies has also hired Matthew Slaughter as an MD in its New York based Financial Sponsor Coverage team. Slaughter joins from Ares, where he was an MD in the New York based Private Debt team. Prior to joining Ares in 2018, he was an MD in the Financial Sponsor Coverage team at Morgan Stanley in New York.

J.P. Morgan has made several changes to its global investment banking business, including new appointments within its EMEA business [details of these moves can be found in the Investment Banking section of our newsletter]. On the credit side, Ben Thompson has been promoted to Head of Leveraged Capital Markets – EMEA.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q2 2020 2 SC Lowy, a privately-owned global banking and asset Partners, where he was a Principal in the New York management group, has hired Richie Revill in London based Distressed & Special Situations team. as its new Head of Markets for Europe. Revill, with almost thirty years’ experience in the European credit Benjamin Schall has joined Apera Asset market, joined from Barclays, where he was latterly an Management’s Munich office as a Principal focusing MD in the EMEA Distressed & Special Situations team. on private capital solutions for the lower mid-market in the DACH region. Schall previously worked in the Carlo Fontana, who has been Head of Non-Investment Munich based Financial Sponsor Solutions team at Grade & High Yield Syndicate at UniCredit since 2019, UniCredit. replaces Tim Hoffmeister as Global Head of Debt Syndicate, following Hoffmeister’s recent departure. Apollo Global Management has hired Rina Joshi Fontana will report to Luca Falco. Makram Nadda, an as an MD in its New York based Global Corporate MD in the Non-Investment Grade Syndicate team, has Credit team focused on Distressed Investments. Joshi been promoted to Fontana’s old position. joins from PointState Capital where she focused on Distressed Debt and Special Situations. CREDIT: FUNDS Arcmont Asset Management has hired Jatinder Aegon Asset Management has appointed Russ Singh as its CTO from Hayfin Capital Management, Morrison as Global CIO for Fixed Income. Morrison where he was also CTO and Partner. Hayfin has hired will be responsible for overseeing Aegon’s €170bn Andrew Pickard from Provident Financial Group as Fixed Income platform, leading 140 investment its new CTO. professionals globally. He will be based in Chicago and report to CEO Bas NieuweWeme. Previously, Morrison Aztec Group has strengthened its Private Debt was an Executive MD at Barings; latterly serving as a leadership team with the appointment of James Vella- management consultant to the firm after having spent Bamber as Group Head of Private Debt, based in 15 years in various roles, including Head of Global Luxembourg. Vella-Bamber, who joined the business Fixed Income and Head of US High Yield at the firm. in 2016 from State Street Alternative Investment Solutions and was latterly Head of Real Assets at Aztec, Aegon Asset Management has also expanded its will have responsibility for the ongoing development of Netherlands based Alternative Fixed Income team led the firm’s credit offering. The firm has also hired Peter by Frank Meijer with the hires of four fund managers: Brown as Head of Private Debt – Luxembourg. Brown Philip van der Meijden, George Konings, Mickey joins from RBS, where he was an MD and Head of Teunissen and George Nijborg. Van der Meijden Funds Banking. joins the team as an Investment Manager focusing on residential mortgages and Co-Manager of the Aegon John Empson has joined BlackRock as an MD Dutch Mortgage Strategies. He previously worked as and Global Head of Alternatives Co-Investment after a Portfolio Manager at Arrow Global. Konings and leaving KKR’s Capital Markets team last year. As part Teunissen join as Investment Managers and Co- of BlackRock’s recent decision to combine its Global Managers of the Aegon SME Loan Strategy, focusing Capital Markets and Private Capital Markets division on buy-out and growth financings for SMEs and into a single platform, BlackRock Capital Markets, small mid-caps. Prior to joining Aegon, both worked Empson will now also act as Head of BlackRock Capital at Rabobank as ADs; Konings in Leveraged Capital Markets – EMEA. Brent Barry, founding member of Markets & Capital Structuring and Teunissen in the BlackRock’s Private Markets team, has been appointed Mid-Cap Leveraged Finance team. Nijborg joins to lead BlackRock Capital Markets globally. Others as Co-Manager of the Corporate Private Placement promoted into new roles as part of this decision include: strategy with additional responsibility for insurance Ed Cook, who will act as Global Head of Liquid Capital wrapped transactions. Nijborg was previously an ED Markets and Corporate Solutions, Mike Dennis, who in the London based DCM team at Goldman Sachs. will become Head of Asia BlackRock Capital Markets and will continue as Head of Alternatives Strategy Albermarle Asset Management has hired Massimo for APAC, Ben Spielman, who has been named Massimilla as a Partner and CIO of Alternative Head of US Liquid Capital Markets, and Kamya Strategies. Massimilla was most recently CEO of Italy Somasundranum, who will return to her role as Head and Head of NPL Strategy at Algebris Investments. of US Liquid Credit. Michael Lawton has also joined the firm as an MD & Head of US Private Sourcing. He Angelo Gordon hired Jacob Gladstone as an MD joins from UBS’ New York based Leveraged Capital focusing on Distressed & Corporate Special Situations Markets team. in New York. Gladstone joins from GSO Capital

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q2 2020 3 BlackRock has also hired Claire Cullen as a Director Matteo Zampini has joined Castlelake as an and Systematic Fixed Income Product Strategist. Associate. Zampini was previously an Associate in the Cullen joins from J.P. Morgan, where she was an Leveraged Finance team at Bank of America. ED and Investment Specialist in EMEA for the Global Credit Investment platform. Karl Bagherzadeh has joined Credit Solutions Partner as a Senior Associate in Munich. Formerly, BNP Paribas Asset Management has appointed Bagherzadeh worked in the London based Special Christophe Montcerisier as Head of Real Estate Situations team at KKR. Debt within its Private Debt & Real Assets investment division, following Philippe Deloffre’s departure to Cross Ocean Partners has hired Henry Li to join their ICG. Montcerisier had been Deputy Head since joining London office as an Analyst in their Distressed team. the team in 2019 from Société Générale’s Real Estate Previously, Li was an Investment Professional at Värde M&A team. Partners working in the Transportation team.

BNY Mellon Investment Management has announced Fair Oaks Capital has hired Christos Danias as a the appointment of Hanneke Smits as its new CEO. Principal, based in London. Danias was most recently Hanneke, the current CEO of Newton Investment an MD in the Structured Credit team at StormHarbour Management, will take over the reins from Mitchell Securities. Harris who will be retiring on 1st October 2020. Anna Karim has joined Federated Hermes as an Bridgepoint has acquired EQT’s credit business Investment Director in its Fixed Income team. Karim and merged it into its existing credit business. The was most recently an MD at Bank of America and acquisition increases Bridgepoint’s existing credit responsible for building and managing a high-yield business to circa €7bn in assets and expands the sales team and covering all European credit products geographic remit of its credit business into Germany, and the illiquid business for the bank’s largest clients. the US, and the Nordics. Leo Wouters has joined General Atlantic as a Principal John Pavelski has joined Carlyle as an MD focusing on the Atlantic Park and Capital Solutions focusing on Distressed Debt and Special Situations. business at the firm. Wouters was previously an ED in Formerly, Pavelski was a Managing Partner and the EMEA Leveraged Finance team at Morgan Stanley. Global Head of Private Credit at Brookfield Asset Management, where he led the private special Golub Capital has hired Andy Chediak as an SVP situation investing efforts. He is based in New York. in New York. Chediak was previously a Director in the

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q2 2020 4 Special Asset Management team at Barclays in New of Risk Retention Financing, based in New York. Kitei York focusing on Restructuring and Distressed Debt. joins the firm from Barclays, where he was latterly an MD & Head of Securitised Products Distribution & H.I.G. Whitehorse has hired Rob de Bruin as a Global CLO Distribution, also based in New York. Principal in its Direct Lending team, reporting to Appu Mundassery. He will be based in Amsterdam Onex Credit has hired Jason New as its new Co-CEO. and responsible for originating and executing debt He will run the business together with Stuart Kovensky, financings with a focus on the Benelux. De Bruin joins and will also have responsibility for new strategies in from NIBC, where he was an AD in the Amsterdam opportunistic credit and special situations. New joins based Leveraged Finance team. the firm from Blackstone, where he was a Senior MD and Co-Head of Distressed & Special Situation ICG’s Real Estate arm has hired Philippe Deloffre and Investing for GSO Capital Partners. Aisling McCarthy as MDs. Deloffre joins the fund from BNP Paribas Asset Management where he was Head Owl Rock Capital has hired Jesse Huff, formerly an of Real Estate Debt. In his new Paris based role, he will MD at Oaktree Capital Management in London, as be responsible for leading origination and investment Co-Head of Opportunistic Credit, based in New York. activity in Europe, excluding the UK. McCarthy joins Huff will Co-Head the team alongside Nicole Drapkin, from Coimmvest LLP, the tech-enabled CRE Lending who takes on the new role after playing a key part in Platform, and in her London based role, will focus building Owl Rock since its inception in 2015. on UK, North American and Irish sponsors investing across Europe. Owl Rock Capital has also recently hired Brian Finkelstein as an MD to lead the firm’s workout efforts IK Investment Partners has hired Thierry Aoun as a in New York. Finkelstein joins from SOLIC Capital, a Director and Head of Capital Markets. He is responsible boutique restructuring advisory firm. for new acquisition financing and capital market activities for IK’s portfolio companies. Aoun joins from Nicholas Basso has joined Peak Rock Capital as KKR, where he was a Principal in the Private Credit an MD in Austin, Texas, and will be reponsible for team. Aoun previously worked in the EMEA Leveraged helping to lead the firm’s investments across corporate Finance team at J.P. Morgan. credit and grow the firm’s credit platform. Basso was previously an MD in the Strategic Credit Group at Oliver Gill has joined KKR as a Principal. Gill previously Oaktree Capital Management in Los Angeles. worked in the Restructuring & Debt Advisory team at Rothschild & Co. Sam Gross has joined Permira Debt Managers as an Investment Director in the firm’s Direct Lending team. Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) Gross joins from PJT Partners’ Restructuring & Special has hired Travis Murdoch as a Portfolio Manager for Situations Group. Permira Debt Managers have also UK Active Credit. Murdoch was previously Head of hired Oliver Palierakis as an Investment Professional. Fixed Income at a family office and prior to that, Portfolio Palierakis was previously an Associate in the EMEA Manager in J.P. Morgan’s Credit Opportunities Fund. Leverage Finance team at Bank of America.

LGIM Real Assets has created a new private credit The New York-based hedge fund Taconic Capital leadership team with several senior appointments in Advisors has recently made a number of hires in Europe. James-Spencer-Jones from Cushman & London as part of its plans to start its third European Wakefield has been named Head of Real Estate Debt fund focused on distressed debt. Piergiorgio Lo in Europe, and Calum Macphail, the Head of Corporate Greco has joined the firm as an advisor for Italy with Alternative Debt at LGIM, will take on responsibility for a focus on sourcing and working on Italian distressed private credit investments in Europe. Will Devenney, deals and special situations. Lo Greco was formerly a Head of Infrastructure Debt, Matt Taylor, Head of Portfolio Manager at Cheyne Capital Management. Alternative Debt, and Steve Bolton, Head of Corporate The Hedge Fund has also hired Vitaliy Ardislamov as Debt, also join the European leadership team, and will a Director in its London office. Ardislamov will report to report to Macphail. Keith Magliana, Head of the European Credit team at the firm. Prior to joining the Hedge Fund, Ardislamov Moelis Asset Management has hired Eric Felder as worked as a Portfolio Manager at Signet Capital its CEO, based in New York. Felder was formerly the Management and prior to that as a distressed debt Head of Credit at Citadel. Analyst at BlueMountain Capital Management.

Nearwater Capital, a Speciality Finance firm, has Tikehau Capital has announced the appointment of hired Jonathan Kitei as a Senior MD and its new Head Raphael Thuin as Head of Capital Markets Strategies,

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q2 2020 5 based in Paris. Thuin joins from asset management firm Massimiliano Messina has joined KPMG’s TOBAM in Paris where he was Head of Fixed Income. Restructuring team in London as a Partner and Head of In his new role at Tikehau, Thuin will be responsible Turnaround. Messina previously worked at PwC, where for overseeing the management of Tikehau Capital’s he led the firm’s UK CRO and Turnaround practice. bonds, equity, and flexible investment strategies. has hired Christopher Mallon as a Senior Susan George has joined White Oak Global Adviser providing strategic counsel to Lazard’s Global Advisors in the newly created position of Head of Restructuring practice. He will be based in London and Asset Management. She will be based in New York and work closely with Cyrus Kapadia, UK CEO of Financial report to Darius Mozaffarian, President of the firm. Prior Advisory, and Restructuring MDs Richard Stables to joining White Oak, George was Head of Corporate and David Burlison. Mallon was previously a Senior Asset Management at Garrison Investment Group, a Restructuring Partner at global law firm Skadden, credit and distressed debt manager. Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

CREDIT: ADVISORY THM Partners have strengthened their London based Restructuring capability with the hires of two MDs, Sebastien Maurin has joined advisory boutique Duncan Calverley, and Mark Sweeting. Calverley Balnageith Advisers as an MD in London. Maurin joins with twenty-five years’ experience formally previously worked at Cantor Fitzgerald where he working in the Restructuring & Turnaround teams at helped to develop the Debt Advisory business. KPMG, AlixPartners and EY. Mark Sweeting joins the firm following five years as CFO of RA Holding Corp, Mathias Übler has joined DC Advisory in Frankfurt as the successor company to Arcapita Bank. an Associate in the firm’s Debt Advisory & Restructuring team. Previously, Übler worked at UniCredit in its CREDIT: OTHER Munich based Corporate Structured Finance team. Chris Dix has joined Antler, an early stage VC fund and FTI Consulting has hired Andy Clayton as an MD in global start-up generator, as Global Capital Director, the Corporate Finance & Restructuring team in London. after more than twelve years at J.P. Morgan, where Clayton joins from the European Investment team at he was latterly an ED in the London based Leveraged Oak Hill Advisors. Prior to joining Oak Hill in 2016, he Finance team. worked in PwC’s Restructuring team. Petya Gangova has joined Oakbrook Finance as a Gareth James and Ken Goldsborough, two former Financial Professional in London. She was latterly an TP ICAP executives, have left the firm to launch Investment Professional at Blenheim Chalcot and Ganymede Capital, a new Debt Advisory firm, based previously member of the Bank Debt Portfolio Group at in London. The firm will specialise in fund finance Goldman Sachs. advisory, debt advisory and wider capital needs at fund level and manager level.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q2 2020 6 SumUp, a fintech company, has hired Michelle Schrey Goldman Sachs has hired Diego Fortunati as an as a Corporate Finance VP. Schrey was most recently a MD in M&A focusing on Industrials. Fortunati joins VP in the Specialty Lending team at TPG Sixth Street from Bank of America and will be based in London, Partners, based in London. working closely with Clare Scherrer, Global Co-Head of Industrials. EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANKING MOVES HSBC has hired Adam Bagshaw as Global Co-Head INVESTMENT BANKING: BANKS of Advisory & IB Coverage alongside current Co-Head Peter Enns. Hugo Health is currently interim Co-Head. Axel Beck has joined Bank of America’s Financial Bagshaw will join after fourteen years at Deutsche Sponsor Coverage team as an MD, after almost Bank, where he was most recently Head of IB – EMEA seventeen years at J.P. Morgan. Bank of America has and Global Co-Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage. also hired Christos Tomaras as a Senior MD in the M&A Jacques Callaghan has also joined HSBC as Head team, where he will work across sectors & geographies of Mid-Market M&A – UK. Callaghan was previously and cover both corporate and sponsor clients. a Senior MD at Macquarie and Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage – UK. Based in London, Callaghan Berenberg has had an internal reshuffle. Fabian will be reporting to Kamal Jabre, Global Head of M&A. De Smet has become Head of Continental Europe and will continue to lead syndication globally. A new J.P. Morgan has made further changes to its global business unit has begun incorporating teams focused investment banking business, including a series of on markets & trading, resulting in Philipp Wiechmann new appointments within its EMEA business, with a and Steward Cook becoming Co-Heads of European view to creating a client focused global committee of Markets. senior bankers, centred on business development. Guillermo Baygual, Co-Head of Industry Coverage BNP Paribas has hired Gaurav Gooptu as an MD to – EMEA, has also been named Co-Head of M&A – focus on the consumer sector and Zahid Moneer as EMEA alongside Dwayne Lysaght. They will report an MD to focus on healthcare. Both are to be based into Global Co-Heads of M&A, Dirk Albersmeier in London covering the EMEA region. Gooptu and and Anu Aiyengar. In ECM, Aloke Gupte and Alex Moneer join from Barclays and HSBC, respectively. Watkins will become Co-Heads of ECM – EMEA. Achintya Mangla, previously Head of ECM – EMEA, has hired Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a was promoted to Global Head in February. former Prime Minister of Denmark (2001 – 2009), as a Senior Advisor within its EMEA IB business. After J.P. Morgan has hired Maja Torun as Head of IB – leaving office, he was Secretary-General of NATO for France. Torun will report to Tanguy Piret, Head of five years before going on to run his own geopolitical Banking – France, Belgium & Luxembourg. Torun joins consultancy business, Rasmussen Global. from Citigroup where she was Co-Head of IB – France for four years, after previously working for Deutsche Stefan Hafke has been named Chief Country Officer Bank and Merrill Lynch. – Germany by Citigroup. Hafke had been working in the role on an interim basis since February, replacing Mizuho Bank has hired former Lloyds banker John Stefan Wintels, who became Global Co-Head of Citi’s Feeney as Head of European Corporate Finance. Feeney, Financial Institutions Group. Hans Reich stepped a real estate banker, began his career in structured down from his role as Chair of the Supervisory Board finance at Barclays and Fitch, and co-founded Bank of for Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG. Head of America Merrill Lynch’s European and Asian structured European Regulatory Engagement, Barbara Frohn, real estate business. Feeney will report to Shinsuke was elected Chair. Wintels was appointed Deputy Toda, Managing Executive Officer at Mizuho Bank. Chair. Fabio Lisanti has been appointed Head of Citi’s Markets Business – Europe, excluding the UK, and has had a reshuffle of its regional leadership. Miguel Gabian as Head of Sales and Trading – Spain Simon Eedle, who was formerly based in Dubai as and Portugal. Head of Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) – Middle East, has moved to London to become Senior has appointed Patrick Frowein and Country Manager for CIB – UK. Barbara Riccardi Berthold Fuerst as Co-Heads of IB Coverage – EMEA, has been appointed Regional Head of Middle East, following Adam Bagshaw’s departure. Frowein retains overseeing CIB activities in the Dubai, Turkey & Saudi his position as Head of Deutsche Investment Bank, Arabia region. Both Eedle and Riccardi will continue to Germany. report to Stéphane About, CEO of CIB – EMEA.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q2 2020 7 DC Advisory has hired Andrew Congleton as an MD to co-lead M&A within its Infrastructure Advisory team. Congleton will be working alongside MD’s Neale Marvin, Sergio Ronga and Phillip Hyman in the London office. Congleton joins from RBC Capital Markets.

Bodo Uebber has joined Evercore Germany as Chmn of its Supervisory Board. Uebber will be working with Eduard Kostadinov, Head of Evercore’s German Advisory business, and Walter Kuna, Vice Chmn. Uebber is joining from Daimler, where he was CFO since 2004.

Richard Taylor has joined Greenhill as an MD and Chmn of Greenhill’s UK business. Most recently, Taylor was Chmn of Barclays’ Global Corporate and Investment Banking business.

Andreas Dombret has joined as an International Senior Advisor in Frankfurt. Dombret has an expansive thirty-three years of experience, working for Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan, Rothschild & Co, and Bank of America. Most recently, Dombret was a member of the Executive Board of The Deutsche Bundesbank. Robert Ritchie is joining as Head of Banking and Capital Markets – EMEA, having Muriel Petit has joined Jefferies as Head of Consumer previously served as Global Co-Head of UK Banking Products – EMEA. Petit’s previous role was Vice Chmn at HSBC. Ritchie will be based in London and report in the Consumer, Retail & Healthcare Industry Group at to John Langley, Regional President and Head of CIB BNP Paribas, where she worked for almost seventeen – EMEA. Langley, formerly at Barclays, joined Wells and a half years. Fargo last year. Lazard has also hired a former Perella Weinberg INVESTMENT BANKING: GLOBAL ADVISORY & Partners MD, David da Rosa, to focus on telecoms BOUTIQUES and digital infrastructure. He will be based in London.

Alantra has announced the hires of Christos Stefanidis has made a number of hires from KPMG and Marcus Evans from PwC as MD’s in London and Frankfurt. Healthcare bankers Dirk for Greece and the UK, respectively. Alantra has also Loeffler, Julian Knirim, and Jens Gerlach join from appointed three Managing Partners to lead its Italian Raymond James in Frankfurt. Loeffler joins as MD & business activities – Stefano Bellavita, Francesco Head of Healthcare – DACH, with Knirim and Gerlach Moccagatta and Marcello Rizzo. They will be focusing joining as Directors. Florus Plantenga has joined the on M&A, ECM, corporate broking, and debt advisory. London office as an MD focusing on financial sponsors in the UK & Europe. Plantenga joins after twelve years Ardea Partners has hired Thomas Rézette as an at Houlihan Lokey, where he was an MD in Financial ED based in London. Rézette joins from J.P. Morgan Sponsor Coverage – UK, Benelux, France & Germany. where he was a member of the Financial Institutions Lincoln International has also hired Alexander Group. Doll as Chmn of the Supervisory Board for Lincoln International AG in Germany. Doll joins the firm’s Global has hired Matthieu Pigasse Management Committee. as a Partner to run its new Paris office. He will lead a team of approximately fifteen bankers, including former Moelis & Co has hired Philippe Gallone as an MD Lazard employees Nicolas Constant and Pierre in Global Healthcare, based in London. Since 2016, Pasqual. Pigasse joins from Lazard, where he was Gallone, a qualified medical doctor, was Head of the Global Head of M&A, Global Head of Government Healthcare – EMEA at Morgan Stanley and had Advisory and CEO for Lazard France. worked at the bank for over thirteen years.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q2 2020 8 Raymond James has hired Alastair Rogers as an James Redmayne and Giles Marshall are set to MD for its Industrials team in London. Rogers joins join Searchlight Capital Partners’ European team as from Canaccord Genuity where he led European a Partner and an MD, respectively. Redmayne joins Sustainability, Services & Industrials. from CVC Capital Partners, where he was a Senior MD in the Asia regional team. Marshall previously worked EUROPEAN PRIVATE EQUITY MOVES for Bregal Freshstream. Andrew Crowston also joins Searchlight as a Senior Advisor. Previously, Crowston PRIVATE EQUITY: INVESTMENT PROFESSIONALS was a Partner at Novalpina Capital, where he was part of the private equity and special situations fund. Bd-Capital has hired Bram Grimmelt as Head of Investment – Benelux. Grimmelt joins from Advent Stirling Square Capital has hired Andreas International, where he was also Head of Benelux. Theilgaard and Manuel Gari to boost its presence His former experience includes working for Waterland in the Nordics and Iberia. Theilgaard joins from Private Equity, in its Netherlands office, and Merrill The Carlyle Group, where he worked in their Lynch in London. International Energy Partners strategy, while Gari joins from Goldman Sachs, where he focused on the TMT, BC Partners has hired Pascal Heberling as a Consumer & Retail and Healthcare sectors. Partner in its London office. Herberling will focus on healthcare sector investments and support TPG Capital has hired Karthic Jayaraman from The transactions across Europe. Heberling joins from Carlyle Group to oversee its healthcare investment ADIA (Abu Dhabi Investment Authority) where he activity in Europe. Jayaraman had spent nearly twenty was Head of Healthcare. years at Carlyle, where he was most recently Co-Head of Carlyle Global Partners. ECI Partners has promoted Tom Wrenn to its Investment Committee, while Steve Tudge will become VGC Partners has promoted Andrew Lister to Partner. Non-Executive Chair, having been with the firm for Formerly, Lister worked at Marlin Equity Partners as twenty-six years. an Investment Director.

EQT has opened an office in Paris with Partner Warburg Pincus has appointed current MD’s René Nicolas Brugère taking on the role of Head of France. Obermann and Adarsh Sarma to Co-Head the Brugère joined EQT in January from PAI Partners European Business, replacing Dan Zilberman who and brings almost fourteen years’ of experience to the will be relocating back to New York after having business. MD Thomas Rajzbaum, who joined the firm been based in London for seven years to expand the in November from Carlyle, has been promoted to Head business’ European arm. Until now, Obermann had of Infrastructure Strategy – France and will also be part been overseeing the firm’s Berlin office and Sarma the of the new Paris office. Additionally, Rania Belkahia firm’s TMT initiatives in Europe. who has joined EQT Ventures as a Deal Partner from Afrimarket, where she was Co-Founder and CEO, and PRIVATE EQUITY: UK VC, SMALL-CAP & LOWER former Colony Capital executive Sébastien Morizot, MID-CAP who has joined EQT Real Estate as a Director, will both be part of the initial 10 professionals working in the Aurelius Equity Opportunities has added three newly established office. investment professionals to its UK team. James Sharp joins as a Principal from ESO Capital, H.I.G. Capital has hired John Harper as an MD and while Associates Kayan Kanga and Prakash Rajani Head of the London LBO team. He will be leading join from PwC and KPMG, respectively. the firm’s small cap investments in the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and Holland. Previously, Harper was a Genesis Capital Equity has promoted Ondřej Vičar to Partner at Inflexion. Managing Partner, replacing Jan Tauber who becomes Chmn. In addition, Martin Viliš has become a new Partner Christian Cederfeld has joined IK Investment and Tatiana Balkovicová has been promoted to the Partners as an Investment Associate based in position Viliš leaves behind, Senior Investment Director. Copenhagen. Cederfeld was previously an Associate in Morgan Stanley’s London based IB Industrials team. Omnes Capital has made several hires in its Mid- Cap and Co-Investment teams. Aubrey Stewart- Mayfair Equity Partners has made five promotions across Quinquis joins the Mid-Cap team as an Analyst and Iris its team: Paul Redding has been promoted to MD, Shiva Duffillot and Simon Hardi the Co-Investment team as Tiwari to Director, Kristina Hristova to AD, and Aryo an Associate and a Principal, respectively. Alexandre Tehranian and Omar Kanafani to Senior Associate. Yip has also been appointed Financial Controller.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q2 2020 9 Pride Capital has expanded its team of Analysts in Specialist alternative asset manager Gresham Europe with Fabian Kühn, Nick Bootsma and Anthony House has appointed David Gardner as a Director of van Praet joining the company in Cologne and Forestry. Gardner joins Global Forest Partners, where Amsterdam. he was Director of Asian and African Investments, based in Singapore. Synova Capital has promoted Zachary Tsai to Partner and Matthew Charman to Investment Director. Tsai is Magdalena Pasecka has been promoted to Partner part of the firm’s Technology sector team and Charman at Innova Capital, a leading private equity fund in has worked on a number of transactions with a focus Central and Eastern Europe. As a Partner based in on . Warsaw, Pasecka will continue in her role as CFO but will have increased focus on the portfolio development Laura Sisson has joined YFM Equity Partners as strategy. an Investment Manager from KPMG‘s Transaction Services team in Manchester. KKR has appointed Adam Warby, Chairman at executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, as PRIVATE EQUITY: FUNCTIONAL & SENIOR a Senior Advisor. In his role, Warby will sit on the LEADERSHIP European PE Portfolio Management Committee.

Dee Dee Sklar has taken on the role of Senior Adviser PAI Partners has hired Marc Boullier as an MD in at 17Capital. Sklar was previously Vice-Chair of its senior operations team. He will be Head of IT and Subscription Finance at Wells Fargo. Digital Transformation across the firm and its portfolio companies. Previously, Boullier was COO at Mobility BMO Private Equity Trust has appointed Audrey Work. Baxter and Tom Burnet to its board. Baxter is currently CEO of Food Group and Burnet is tech company ITG’s Standard Life Aberdeen has hired Stephen Bird as Chmn. their new CEO. Bird will be replacing Keith Skeoch who stepped down after five years in the job and The BVCA (British Private Equity and Venture fourteen years on the board. Bird joins the asset Capital Association) has appointed Neil manager from Citigroup, where he had been CEO of MacDougall from Silverfleet Capital as its Chair for Global Consumer Banking since 2015. the next financial year. Stirling Square has appointed Emin Aleskerov as EQT has proposed Diony Lebot and Nicola Kimm as Head of the Innovation & Sustainability team which new Board members. Lebot is Deputy CEO of Société will focus on data and technology issues at portfolio Générale, while Kimm is Global Head of Sustainability companies. Ahmed Khamassi has also been hired as and Environment, Health and Safety at Signify. Head of Data Science.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q2 2020 10 Tikehau Capital has appointed Natacha Valla, former PRIVATE EQUITY: INVESTOR RELATIONS ECB economist, as a member of its asset management division’s advisory board. 17Capital has hired Martin Munte as its Investor Relations Director in London. Munte joins from CVC The Spanish Venture Capital and Private Equity Credit Partners, where he was a Director and Association (ASCRI) has named Aquilino Peña, Co- responsible for fundraising across Germany, Founder of Kibo Ventures, as President for the 2020- Switzerland, Austria, and the Nordic region. 2022 period. Peña will take over the role from Miguel Zurita, Managing Partner and Co-CIO of Altamar Andera Partners, the spin-out from Edmond Capital. de Rothschild Investment Partners, has appointed Constance Jay as Director of Investor Unigrains has appointed Sébastien Essioux as Relations. Prior to joining Andera Partners, Jay worked Deputy CEO. He was latterly CEO of the Groupement at Argos Wityu where she spent eleven years and Les Mousquetaires. helped to raise nearly €1bn, primarily outside of France.

PRIVATE EQUITY: OPERATING PARTNERS & Alma Lawrie has joined Keyhaven Capital Partners’ PORTFOLIO VALUE CREATION Investor Relations team. Lawrie brings twenty years of IR experience, having previously held roles at Samena Silke Scheiber has joined Asterion Industrial Capital, Gulf Capital and Deloitte’s London-based Partners as Head of its Portfolio Management Fund Placement Advisory Group. Committee, a newly created role. Most recently, Scheiber was a Partner and Head of the European PRIVATE EQUITY: PRIMARY FUND INVESTMENT & Industrials Group at KKR. NON-DIRECT INVESTMENT

Keensight Capital has appointed Dr. Edwin Flexstone Partners, the private markets subsidiary Moses and José Luis Martín as Operating Partners in of Natixis, has hired Kristof Van Overloop as its Growth Buyout Investment team. Moses joins after an Investment Director and Head of Secondaries a successful career as a biopharma entrepreneur and Investments, based in Paris. He joins from Adams Martín joins from Werfen, where he was responsible Street Partners, where he was latterly a Principal in for the development and implementation of corporate the London based Secondaries Investment team. strategy. LGPS Central has promoted Gordon Ross to permanent CIO from Deputy CIO, following the departure of Jason Fletcher in April.

Christiaan van der Kan will be joining Schroder Adveq as Head of Secondaries on September 1st. Van der Kam previously worked at Unigestion where he was Co-Head of Secondaries.

Wessex Partners ‘Musical Chairs’ Q2 2020 11 Union Bancaire Privée, the Swiss private bank, has hired Kier Boley as Chief Investment Officer and Co- Head of Alternative Investment Solutions. Boley joins the London office from asset managerGAM , where he was Head of Alternative Investments. He is joined at UBP by GAM colleagues and Senior Investment Managers Susanna Wallis, Anthony Murphy and James Daly.

Yielco Investments has hired private market specialist Claudio Ghisu as a Partner in Switzerland. He will be responsible for impact investing/ESG across all asset classes as well as for product management. Ghisu joins after five years at UBS Asset Management, where he was an ED based in Zurich.

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