AURELIUS Group adds two to investment team in London
AURELIUS Group has appointed wo new members to its investment team in London. Simon Jobson joins as Principal and Shivani Sheth as Investment Associate, bringing the total investment team in London to 12. Jobson and Sheth will work with Tristan Nagler, Partner, AURELIUS European Opportunities IV, who with the London-based investment team has led several […]
Fort Worth private equity firm adds managing director
Vortus Investment Advisors LLC, a Fort Worth-based private equity firm, announced that Luke Brandenberg joined the company as Managing Director. Brandenberg will be a key member of the Investment Team responsible for various stages of the investment cycle including sourcing, structuring, transactional due diligence, monitoring and management. “Luke is well known in the industry for […]
Alantra Private Equity adds two new operating partners to team
Alantra Private Equity has appointed Javier Pijoan and Chema Fernández as Operating Partners, specialising in Sales & Marketing, and Digital Transformation, respectively. Pijoan has more than 25 years of experience in Consumer and Food, having developed his professional career in national and international groups such as Heineken, where he has been a member of the […]
Arma Partners announces record year and expands partnership
Arma Partners (Arma) saw record activity levels in its latest financial year, with the firm advising on 33 transactions and generated revenues in excess of USD100 million for the fiscal year ending 31 March 2021, even as Covid-19 required the team to collaborate remotely and introduced unfamiliar dynamics to deal making. With an active pipeline […]
Bowmark Capital promotes four
Bowmark Capital has made four promotions – Antonia Cheong and Tom Elliott become partners while Tom Keen has been promoted to investment director and Alex McRae to investment manager Cheong joined Bowmark in 2014 from DC Advisory. She has played a key role in the development of the firm’s business services practice and co-leads the […]
Private equity holding periods reach all-time high in 2020
A new report from eFront, the leading financial software and solutions provider dedicated to Alternative Investments, shows that private equity holding periods extended in 2020 to a record 5.4 years on average, at the same time as returns dipped. The data also showed that investments held for longer periods tend to produce higher returns – […]
JAB welcomes new Partner
JAB has appointed Lubomira Rochet as partner, effective 1 June, 2021. Based in London, Rochet is a specialist business transformer with extensive global experience across multiple industries. She joins JAB following seven years at L’Oréal, where she served as Chief Digital Officer and a member of the Executive Committee While at L’Oreal, Rochet successfully led […]
Blackstone appoints MD to lead European investing for Blackstone Growth
Blackstone has appointed Paul Morrissey, a seasoned investment professional with extensive private equity and venture capital experience, as a Managing Director to lead investing across Europe for Blackstone Growth (BXG). This newly created role will see Morrissey manage the European deployment for BXG, which recently completed the final close of its oversubscribed, inaugural USD4.5 billion […]
TikTok Founder’s $60 Billion Fortune Places Him Among The World’s Richest People
ByteDance Ltd. founder Zhang Yiming may soon be among the world’s richest people as TikTok’s valuation could put his personal fortune at $60 billion. Tim Stenovec reports on “Quicktake Charge.” Shares of the company trade in the private market at a valuation of more than $250 billion, people familiar with the dealings have said. At […]
OakNorth Bank makes new hires in the North West, Yorkshire and East Anglia
OakNorth Bank is continuing to strengthen its regional footprint with three new hires to its lending teams in the North West, Yorkshire and East Anglia OakNorth Bank’s 2020 Annual Report revealed that, despite the ongoing challenges of Covid-19, it lent GBP1.1 billion to the Missing Middle last year, supporting hundreds of businesses and helping to […]
