Private Equity
Armance Borders was appointed as general counsel at Sofinnova Partners. She brings 10 years of experience in private equity. Prior to joining Sofinnova, Armance was deputy general counsel and secretary of the board of directors at Eurazeo.
3 min read · 23 April 2018
Canadian royalty financing firm Grenville Strategic Royalty Corp has promoted Robb McLarty to CIO and acting CEO. He replaces Steve Parry in the latter role. Parry, who co-founded Grenville in 2013, will resign from the board and assume an advisory role with the firm. McLarty, who joined Grenville in 2016 as a managing director, previously served in senior roles at Farwest Ventures and NGEN Partners. Toronto-based Grenville also said its portfolio company Boardwalktech Inc, a provider of digital ledger technology, has raised $10 million and closed a reverse takeover with Wood Composite Technologies Inc.
3 min read · 23 April 2018
Bill Thompson joined Evercore as a senior managing director and co-CEO of its private capital advisory group. Thompson will help expand the bank's real estate advisory business. Over the course of his career, Thompson worked in leadership roles at LaSalle Advisors, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette/Credit Suisse and Greenhill.
4 min read · 23 April 2018
3 min read · 23 April 2018
Starwood Energy Group Global LLC said April 23 that Philipp Pletka has joined the firm as managing director, while Alex Daberko was promoted to managing director. Pletka was most recently a senior member of BlackRock's energy & power private equity team.
3 min read · 23 April 2018
Distributed Credit Chain said April 20 that Matthew Chang was appointed an adviser to the project. Chang is a managing director at KKR. Distributed Credit Chain, of Hong Kong, is a blockchain company developing a distributed banking public chain.
3 min read · 23 April 2018
Katherine Grass has joined Thayer Ventures as a venture partner. Grass most recently served as global head of innovation and ventures at Amadeus Group.
3 min read · 20 April 2018
Jonathan Laifer joined BelHealth Investment Partners as an associate. Laifer was previously an investment banking associate in the healthcare group at Goldman Sachs focusing on M&A, leveraged finance and equity transactions.
2 min read · 20 April 2018
Canadian private equity firm Onex Corp has hired Sam Camens as a managing director responsible for health and benefits (H&B). Operating from New York, Camens will work with the investor's North American portfolio companies to drive enhanced outcomes for employee health and benefits programs. He will also support related due diligence activity. Camens joins Onex from Alterity Group, where he served as a managing director, advising private equity firms and their portfolio companies about overseeing health and benefits.
3 min read · 19 April 2018
Alvarez & Marsal hired Jeffrey Huddleston as a managing director in the Houston office. Huddleston specializes in advising distressed companies, lenders and creditors both in court and out-of-court restructurings and turnarounds. Previously, Huddleston worked as a managing director at Conway MacKenzie and helped launch their energy practice in Houston.
3 min read · 19 April 2018
