Ropes & Gray adds private funds lawyer to Asset Management Practice in New York
Global law firm Ropes & Gray today has appointed private equity fund formation lawyer Bryan Hunkele as a partner in the firm’s asset management practice in New York Hunkele guides clients on their most complex fund sponsor matters in this dynamic and evolving market. He is a strong addition to Ropes & Gray’s asset management […]
Westmount Park Investments appoints President & Chief Operating Officer
Westmount Park Investments (Westmount Park) has appointed Michael Pangia, as President and COO In this newly created role, Pangia will lead all operational aspects of the organisation and its growing number of affiliates, subsidiaries, and portfolio companies. Pangia will also oversee the company’s financing initiatives including management of relationships with investment banks and other capital […]
StepStone Group adds to Board of Directors
StepStone Group, a global private markets investment firm, has appointed Valerie G Brown to the company’s Board of Directors, effective 12 April, 2021 This newly created directorship expands the Board to 11 members. Brown will be the Board’s third independent director and will serve on the Audit Committee. Brown joins StepStone’s Board following a distinguished […]
Toshiba CEO to step down as board meets Wednesday to consider his future
Toshiba Corp Chief Executive Nobuaki Kurumatani plans to step down as other board members consider his future at the industrial conglomerate amid controversy over a $20 billion buyout bid from his former employer, CVC Capital Partners, a source with knowledge of his decision said Kurumatani, who has run the company for three years, faces a […]
Former BP boss Lord Browne joins private equity firm General Atlantic
Former BP boss Lord Browne has today joined private equity firm General Atlantic to advise it on environmental and social issues, including the road to net zero. The New York firm said that Browne would work with the firm to “find new ways to invest in climate solutions, and help develop corporate strategies for addressing […]
Sunaina Sinha Haldea Is Smashing Private Equity’s Thick Glass Ceiling
Private equity has become a massive $4.4 trillion industry that could more than double by 2025. It has an outsized impact on our economy and our lives, sometimes controlling our water and electricity, our household brands, our roads, highways and trains, and even our schools, homes and places of work. Yet despite its reach and […]
Deepbridge Capital makes two senior hires
UK venture capital investment manager Deepbridge Capital has appointed Steve Shallcross as Chief Information and Technology Officer and Connor Grimes as Associate Investment Director, Technology Prior to joining Deepbridge, Shallcross was Senior Vice President of Technology and Innovation at Cheshire-based tech company Afin Technologies. Shallcross’s role at Deepbridge is to lead the digitalisation of the […]
Squire Patton Boggs appoints new partner
Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Michael Gajic as a partner Formerly with MinterEllison, Gajic specialises in public mergers and acquisitions and acts for bidders, targets and major shareholders on public M&A transactions, including schemes of arrangement, takeovers (hostile, unsolicited and friendly), takeover defences, take-privates of ASX listed companies by private equity bidders and Takeovers Panel […]
Kirkland Lawyers Flock to Posts at Private Equity Companies
Nine Kirkland & Ellis lawyers have taken in-house private equity positions during the first quarter of 2021, with most leaving for legal chief roles. Kirkland corporate partner Nadia Karkar left the firm’s San Francisco office last month to join TPG Global LLC as a general counsel based in the same city. Elizabeth Freechack, a New […]
Private Equity’s Tech Bonanza Continues As KKR Stands To Make Billions On AppLovin Deal
The technology and software sector continues to be a goldmine for the world’s biggest and best performing private equity firms. Add KKR & Co., cofounded by billionaires Henry Kravis and George Roberts, to the list of mega-firms set to mine one of its great dealmaking coups in the tech sector. AppLovin, a pioneering maker of […]
