Private Equity
Highland Capital Management L.P. said Friday it had named Terry Jones its President of Institutional Products. Jones previously served as Lead Director of the Highland Funds.
3 min read · 26 October 2015
Eric Fry is joining Lindsay Goldberg as a Partner. Fry was most recently with Morgan Stanley where he was a Managing Director in the firm’s private equity group.
2 min read · 23 October 2015
Canadian mid-market private equity firm Birch Hill Equity Partners recently promoted Andrew Fortier to partner. Fortier, who joined Birch Hill in 2011, played a leadership role in three portfolio investments: Shred-it International Inc, GDI Integrated Facility Services Inc and Marsulex Environmental Technologies Corp. All three companies have been involved in liquidity events of late. Shred-it, for example, was acquired earlier this month by Stericycle Inc for US$2.3 billion, while GDI went public in May. Fortier was previously a vice president at U.S. private equity firm Audax Group.
2 min read · 22 October 2015
New Delhi, India-based Vyome Biosciences, a clinical stage dermatology based biopharmaceutical company, has named Dr. Bhaskar Chaudhuri and Alan Rosling to its board of directors. Chaudhuri is an operating partner at Frazier Healthcare Ventures while Rosling is a is senior advisor at Navam Capital. Vyome's backers included Kalaari Capital, Sabre Partners, Aarin Capital and Navam Capital.
3 min read · 22 October 2015
CIT Group Inc (CIT.N) said Chief Executive Officer John Thain, who was appointed to turn around the commercial lender after its bankruptcy, will retire in March and be replaced by veteran banking executive Ellen Alemany, Reuters News reported.
2 min read · 22 October 2015
Intermediate Capital Group has appointed Jeffrey Rabel as managing director. Previously, Rabel worked at Barclays where he served as a managing director in the company's financials sponsors group.
2 min read · 21 October 2015
Tailwind Capital has hired Eran Broshy and Cliff Gookin as operating executives. Previously, Broshy was CEO and chairman of inVentiv Health Inc while Gookin was vice president of business development at Omnicare.
3 min read · 21 October 2015
Catalyst Investors said Wednesday that it has added two analysts, Courtney Nelson and David Sack. Nelson joins Catalyst from Greenhill & Co. where she was an investment banking analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions group in New York. Sack was most recently with New York-based Berenson & Company, where he served as an investment banking analyst on M&A and capital raise transactions.
2 min read · 21 October 2015
Joshua Harris, senior managing director of Apollo Global Management, will be the keynote speaker at the 13th annual Capital Connection Conference of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), Toronto chapter. Co-founded by Harris in 1990, Apollo is one of the largest private equity firms in the world, with US$163 billion in assets under management. The ACG Toronto event will take place on November 2nd and 3rd at Toronto's Allstream Centre.
3 min read · 20 October 2015
Investment consultant and advisor Meketa Investment Group has opened a new office in Chicago. Joining the new office is Ted L. Disabato who is coming on board as a managing principal and consultant. Also, Alexandra Wallace, a principal at Meketa, will relocate from the firm's Boston office to Chicago.
2 min read · 20 October 2015
