Private Equity
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners has promoted Paul Drury and Matthew Frankel to senior managing director. Drury joined the firm's Chicago office in 20015 while Frankel came on board in 2010.
2 min read · 18 January 2017
McNally Capital has appointed Frank A. McGrew IV to lead its merchant banking business. Previously, McGrew was a managing director at Raymond James' investment banking department.
3 min read · 18 January 2017
Law firm Orrick Rambaud Martel has hired Guillaume Kessler, a French M&A and private equity adviser, as a partner for its Paris office. Previously, Kessler worked at Olswang where he was a managing partner at the Paris office and head of the Paris corporate group.
4 min read · 18 January 2017
Pleasanton, California-based SmartZip Analytics, a provider of predictive marketing solutions for real estate and related industries, has appointed Scott Baumgartner as its chief financial officer. Previously, he worked at Accela where he served as vice president of finance. SmartZip is backed by Intel Capital, Claremont Creek Ventures, Crest Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, Cue Ball Capital and ORIX Growth Capital.
3 min read · 18 January 2017
Investment bank and asset manager Piper Jaffray Companies has named David D. Olson as vice chairman of the financial institutions group. Olson is the former chairman and CEO of River Branch Holdings LLC.
2 min read · 18 January 2017
BV Investment Partners has made an undisclosed investment in C-4 Analytics. Headquartered in Saugus, Massachusetts, C-4 Analytics is a digital marketing firm. In addition to the funding, BV principal Justin Harrison and Mike Ricciardelli, an operating advisory board member of BV, have been appointed to C-4 Analytics' board.
3 min read · 18 January 2017
Comvest Partners has hired Matt Gullen as a partner and member of the firm's investment committee for private equity strategy. Previously, Gullen worked at H.I.G. Capital where he served as a principal on the firm's LBO fund.
2 min read · 18 January 2017
Lariat Partners has promoted Jason Urband to principal and Josh Sartisky to senior associate. Urband has 12 years of M&A advisory and private equity investing experience while Sartisky had six years of the same.
2 min read · 18 January 2017
Belgium-based NHV Group, an helicopter transport services company, has named Dominique Lafont as executive chairman. Lafont is a senior adviser at KKR and BCG. NHV Group is backed by Ardian.
4 min read · 17 January 2017
Swander Pace Capital has appoints Robert Vassel as a principal. Previously, he worked at The Clorox Company where he most recently served as vice president of corporate development focused on mergers and acquisitions. Also, the firm, which has offices in Toronto, San Francisco and New Jersey has promoted Tyler Matlock to senior vice president and Tara Hyland to senior associate. Matlock joined Swander Pace in 2008 while Hyland came on board in 2015.
2 min read · 17 January 2017
