AnaCap Financial Partners, a recently launched private equity firm focused on European financial services investments, has made four additions to its team.
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Amber Hilkene and Justin Sulger have joined as directors, while Diego Pace and Stephen Pully have been hired as associates.
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Hilkene, now director of corporate development at AnaCap, was previously responsible for European business development at The Gores Group, a US private equity firm. Hilkene joined Gores in 1999, relocating to launch its London office in 2004, where she was responsible for sourcing and identifying acquisitions.
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Before that, Hilkene worked in the private clientele group of CIBC World Markets, responsible for research and marketing.
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Sulger has joined AnaCap as director of business services, having previously been a vice president in Morgan Stanley’s securitised products group, working on deal structuring and origination. Before that, he was a managing director of Lunar Group, an investor in technology, media and entertainment start-ups in China.
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Sulger also spent five years at Goldman Sachs in New York and London, structuring and marketing derivatives.
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Pace, previously an associate at Integrated Finance and a M&A and debt advisory analyst at KPMG Corporate Finance in London and Buenos Aires, has joined AnaCap as associate of risk and liability management.
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Before joining AnaCap as associate of business services, Pulley worked as a management consultant for Mercer Oliver Wyman, a consulting firm dedicated to the financial services sector.
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In May, AnaCap appointed Intermediate Capital Group founder Andrew Jackson, former Citicorp corporate head Michael Callan and Rudi Doerr, former group vice president of GMAC Europe, to its strategic advisory board.
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In April, the firm raised €300 million ($382 million) for its debut private equity fund. AnaCap focuses on the European financial services industry, with a specific focus on the consumer, commercial, secured asset finance and insurance markets.
AnaCap continues recruitment drive
Two months after appointing its strategic advisory board, European financial services-focused AnaCap Financial Partners has hired to two directors and two associates.