Private Equity
Mizuho Securities USA, the U.S. investment banking subsidiary of the global Mizuho Financial Group, has named Jerry Rizzieri as its President & CEO, effective March 10. Rizzieri served as Executive Managing Director and Fixed Income Division Head since 2011. Rizzieri succeeds John Koudounis as Mizuho Securities USA President & CEO, who has decided to leave the firm to pursue an opportunity with an unnamed asset management company.
3 min read · 10 March 2016
Embattled Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc has added a representative from investor Pershing Square Capital Management to its board of directors, Reuters report. Pershing Square, a U.S. hedge fund run by activist investor Bill Ackman, bought a stake in Valeant last year when the drug-maker's shares were on the rise. They have fallen 68 percent since.
2 min read · 09 March 2016
Advisory firm Duff & Phelps promoted 13 professionals to managing director. Promotions in the firm's M&A practice include: Nicholas Clemens, Darren Gange, Bradley Hileman, Laura McNaughton, Margaret Mi and Edward Mielke.
4 min read · 09 March 2016
Sidley Austin LLP added six new partners to its private equity and corporate practice in London. The six new hires, who have worked together as a team several years, primarily represent private equity sponsors operating in Europe.
4 min read · 09 March 2016
FTV Capital said Wednesday it promoted Kyle Griswold to partner. Robert Anderson and Aly Lovett were also promoted to principal while Richard Liu was named a vice president.
4 min read · 09 March 2016
Charlesbank Capital Partners hired Neil Kalvelage as operating partner. Kalvelage joins Charlesbank from Bain Capital, where he worked for 10 years as operating partner, most recently building a team in Melbourne, Australia. He has also held executive positions at The Hershey Co and PepsiCo.
2 min read · 09 March 2016
Linsalata Capital Partners, a Cleveland-based private equity firm, promoted Jeffrey S. Wahl to managing director and operating partner. Wahl joined Linsalata in 2014 from private equity-backed EdisonLearning, where he was president and chief executive. The firm also promoted Murad A. Beg to managing director and James V. Guddy to principal.
3 min read · 09 March 2016
CVC Capital Partners hired Chris Colpitts as a senior managing director and head of telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) in the U.S.
1 min read · 08 March 2016
Waud Capital Partners partnered with George Ahn, a software industry executive, to pursue investments in the vertically-focused application software industry. Ahn most recently served as the head of IBM’s smart infrastructure software organization. Ahn was chief executive of software company Tririga for six years prior to its acquisition by IBM in 2011.
4 min read · 07 March 2016
Zeus Capital made its first step into the oil and gas and mining sectors with the appointment of Rob Collins as a corporate finance director and head of natural resources. Collins joins the firm from GMP Securities Europe, where he was head of oil and gas investment banking, according to his LinkedIn profile. He has also worked as head of oil and gas banking at Evolution Group and as head of natural resources at Canaccord Genuity.
1 min read · 07 March 2016
