People moves

24 November 2023
Exponent opens Dublin office
Formerly COO at BlackRock, Jacqueline Flynn to head up the new shop as director of operations

17 November 2023
Apperio’s CEO steps down
Founder Nicholas d’Adhemar created the company in 2013 to improve the management of legal costs for PE firm in-house legal teams

15 November 2023
Kapashi joins Playfair as CFO
Raxita Kapashi will oversee the firm’s finance function, support the founders and work across Playfair’s three funds

13 November 2023
AnaCap welcomes CFO and GC into partnership
Graeme Chaffe (right) has been CFO since 2022; Victoria Brown (left) has been GC since 2020

9 November 2023
Alpha Group appoints head of lender engagement
Ex-NatWest Markets, Benjamin James, to head up company’s lender relationships and oversee product development

9 November 2023
Goodway succeeds Kapashi at Dawn
Alex Goodway fills the CFO position from Kindred Capital

7 November 2023
Ropes & Gray’s Emily Brown joins White & Case
Brown joins as a partner in the law firm’s global M&A and PE industry group

3 November 2023
Dillon Eustace appoints two to asset management practice
Laura Goonan and Hannah Fenlon join as partners in the practice in Dublin

2 November 2023
Ropes & Gray promotes Maj to counsel
The lawyer’s asset management team promotes Dorota Maj as one of 20 lawyers making the move to counsel across the firm


1 November 2023
Pinsent Masons appoints Irish funds team lead
Conor Durkin to head the firm’s funds team in Dublin

1 November 2023
K&L adds funds partner
Formerly with Arthur Cox, Hazel Doyle is to join firm’s Dublin office launched earlier this year

27 October 2023
Mourant expands to Singapore
Firm to offer banking and finance, litigation and governance services

26 October 2023
Ropes & Gray makes partnership promotions
Lisa Kaltenbrunner and Chris Townsend are based in London

23 October 2023
DIF Capital appoints head of ESG
Lorraine Becker steps into the role after two years as principal consultant at Environmental Resources Management



17 October 2023
Former Zetland FD joins ImpactA Global
George Lok is the new finance director of the women-led impact investor

17 October 2023
Herbert Smith Freehills appoints head of international private equity
Formerly with Sidley Austin, Eleanor Shanks takes on newly created role

16 October 2023
ICG appoints head of Luxembourg
Hind El Gaidi joins from her previous role as head of financial information and valuation at Astorg

16 October 2023
A&M appoints generative AI practice head
Anil Kumar will be supported by consulting lead David McGraw and CTO Chaz Henry

12 October 2023
Middleground appoints head of finance
Partner Cristopher Speight joins from biotech firm Alltech

11 October 2023
Position Green opens Brussels office
Julia Staunig has been appointed to lead the firm’s Brussels team

11 October 2023
Universal Investment’s COO heads up Luxembourg
Etienne Rougier aims to help with UI efa’s growth

11 October 2023
Henderson moves to Telemos
All Seas Capital’s Charlotte Henderson is appointed COO at Telemos Capital; Pemberton’s Thomas Lack succeeds her

9 October 2023
ICG fills new COO role
Sarah Faulkner will report to the CFO of ICG, David Bicarregui

9 October 2023
Sonen appoints head of impact engagement
Amanda Feldman has previously co-founded portfolio initiative programme the Impact Management Project

9 October 2023
Apex expands ESG solutions
Fund administrator offers compliance, reporting and consulting services after its acquisition of MJ Hudson’s ESG advisory businesses

9 October 2023
Waystone finalises LFS deal
LFS’s UK ACD, Irish ManCo, fund administration and TA businesses will be incorporated into Waystone as all contractual conditions have finally been satisfied

9 October 2023
Carmignac appoints head of private equity
Ardian’s Edouard Boscher to lead the asset manager’s operations for private equity as an asset class

9 October 2023
Freshfields expands ESG and sustainability team
Travers Smith’s former head of environment and operational regulatory practice, Doug Bryden, has joined Freshfields

9 October 2023
Investec expands fund finance offering to US
Bank has opened New York office and appointed Olivia Deroy as manager for origination and relationship management in the US

6 October 2023
Amundi appoints CFO
Aurélia Lecourtier to succeed Domenico Aiello who takes up mantle of deputy CEO of Amundi Italy

6 October 2023
Apollo appoints CFO and COO for private debt fund
Eric Rosenberg was previously CFO at Anchorage Capital and Adam Eling spent the last 11 years as principal at Apollo

6 October 2023
Ocorian gets an A-Pass
The acquisition of the corporate administration service provider will strengthen Ocorian’s presence in Asia

5 October 2023
Ex-Ardian team launches LP secondaries firm
Clipway to leverage technology and focus on buyout and growth managers across North America and Western Europe.


3 October 2023
Hazeltree appoints CEO
Stephanie Miller to succeed Tushar Amin, who will step down for personal and family reasons

2 October 2023
Goodwin expands litigation and dispute resolution team
Formerly at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, partner Mark Beardsworth to lead the firm’s government investigations and enforcement practice

27 September 2023
General Atlantic appoints COO
Graves Tompkins joined the firm in 2008 as managing director

22 September 2023
Impact Bridge appoints financial risk, compliance and ESG officer
Florencia López André joins from investment banking firm atl Capital


21 September 2023
Mainspring’s Stephen Geddes to lead Apex UK
The fund management service provider was bought by Apex in September 2022

20 September 2023
Dillon Eustace appoints head of asset management and investment funds
Etain de Valera takes over from Donnacha O’Connor

20 September 2023
Mundi Ventures makes key hires
New additions include Laura Olabeaga as financial controller and Germán Puente as general counsel

19 September 2023
Quadrille promotes CFO to partner
Edouard Brunet joined the firm in 2019 as vice president and became CFO in February 2023

18 September 2023
Inflexion puts boots on the ground in the Nordics
Inflexion has opened an office in Stockholm, its first in the Nordics region

14 September 2023
MML promotes Darroch to partner
The finance director has been at the firm since 2021

14 September 2023
A&M moves to Vienna
Firm has hired ex-AxFina CEO Bernhard Engel to lead Austrian office

13 September 2023
CVC appoints chief people officer
Katharina Koenig is to succeed global head of HR Helene Thomas

13 September 2023
Fin Capital appoints inaugural GC
Nicholas Cirella joins the firm after a year at Steadview Capital in a similar role

13 September 2023
One Rock appoints CTO
Formerly with Lindsay Goldberg LLC, Leo Fitzpatrick to head up architecture and design of firm’s tech applications and infrastructure

7 September 2023
Welsh joins Partners Group
Kieran Welsh joins the fund finance team, and was previously at National Australia Bank


7 September 2023
Ocorian names new CEO
Former Capita portfolio CEO Chantal Free succeeds Frederik van Tuyll


5 September 2023
Addleshaw expands private funds team
Ben Cocoracchio joins the London team from Osborne Clarke


4 September 2023
Sidley Austin’s Chapman joins Macfarlanes
Peter Chapman has been appointed as a partner in the investment management team

29 August 2023
Tikehau makes leadership appointments
Vincent Picot (left) steps into role of group CFO with Guillaume Belnat (right) as group deputy CFO