The global infrastructure market was boosted by almost US$10bn this month when two private equity funds targeting the sector – one set up by Credit Suisse, the other by Morgan Stanley, closed. The largest of the two was Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a New York-based firm set up Credit Suisse and US conglomerate General Electric […]
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The entire buyout business is in shambles these days, and technology buyouts in particular are a disaster zone, right?
SCM Strategic Capital Management AG, a Zurich-based adviser to institutional investors and publisher of an annual study on partnership terms and conditions, may open an office in the United States following the launch of offices earlier this year in London and Hong Kong. CEO Stefan Hepp said that he has watched with interest the dwindling […]
In a bid to boost its coverage of sovereign wealth funds at a time when they are becoming ever more sought-after as investment banking clients, Lehman Brothers has created a new role of global head of sovereign wealth funds. Makram Azar, who has been running Lehman’s media, consumer and retail investment banking businesses in Europe […]
Apposite Capital, the UK private equity firm set-up in 2006 to invest purely in the healthcare sector, has appointed Valerie Auffray as investor relations manager. She will manage the firm’s overall investor relations and communications activities as well as its fundraising efforts. With over seven years PR and IR experience to biotech and healthcare companies, […]
London-based alternative asset management firm Duet Group has named Osman Semerci as chief executive and partner. Duet was established in 2002 by Alain Schibl and Henry Gabay with US$10m and today manages over US$1.7bn, in a mix of 13 private equity, hedge fund and long-only funds. AS CEO, Semerci will be responsible for the day-to-day […]
Graphite Capital, the UK mid-market buy-out and fund-of-funds manager, has recruited former JP Morgan Private Equity fund of funds managing director Dana Haimoff as a partner. Haimoff has held senior positions in private equity in New York and London with Merrill Lynch and Prudential Securities before joining JP Morgan Private Equity’s fund of funds team […]
Insurance broker Willis has hjired Marius Stolarski to head up its new Central and Eastern Europe M&A practice from Warsaw, Poland. Stolarski recently returned to Warsaw after a lengthy secondment to both Willis’ German M&A Practice in Frankfurt and its UK M&A Practice in London. During that time he worked on various transactions including a […]
US legal outfit Weil, Gotshal & Manges has added two new partners to its London office. Tony Horspool has joined the firm’s global restructuring group, and Stuart Hills has joined the banking & finance team. Horspool moves from attorney’s office Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where he worked since 2002 in the financial restructuring team advising […]
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