Private Equity
Mizuho Securities USA has hired Derek Dillon as managing director and head of equity capital markets. Dillon will focus on the expansion of Mizuho Securities USA's equity capital market business. Dillon most recently worked as co-head of capital markets and syndicate at Plural Investments, where he led the global capital markets business. Prior to that, Dillon worked as co-head of Equity Capital Markets at Banc of America Securities.
3 min read · 09 December 2014
Despite generating similar returns, private equity investment staff at the California State Teachers’ Retirement System received fiscal year bonuses that amounted to only a fraction of what their peers at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System received, according to state documents.
2 min read · 08 December 2014
Stifel Financial Corp. has hired William Wilson as a managing director for its high yield debt capital markets. Wilson, who is based in New York, worked recently as a managing director at CRT Capital Group.
2 min read · 08 December 2014
Performance-driven private equity firms should address gender inequality within their partnerships now
3 min read · 05 December 2014
Hugh O'Reilly has been appointed the new president and CEO of OPSEU Pension Trust (OPTrust). O'Reilly, who will assume the new role in January, currently leads the Pension Benefits and Insolvency Practice Group at law firm Cavalluzzo Shilton McIntyre Cornish LLP, which he joined after serving as a partner at Torys LLP. Based in Toronto, OPTrust manages $16 billion in assets on behalf of Ontario public employees. In August 2013, peHUB Canada profiled the private markets group at OPTrust.
2 min read · 04 December 2014
Texas investment firm Satori Capital has hired Willie Houston as chief financial officer. Previously, Houston worked at TPG where he served as senior director of financial operations.
3 min read · 04 December 2014
Blackstone Group LP's No. 2 executive Tony James is considering taking a role outside the world’s largest alternative asset manager, including seeking a top job in a future U.S. government, Reuters is reporting.
4 min read · 04 December 2014
Samantha Horn, a partner with Canadian law firm Stikeman Elliott LLP, has received the Women's Executive Network's 2014 Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award. Horn is co-head of Stikeman's M&A and private equity practice group in Toronto. The is also a former co-chair and an active supporter of the Canadian Women in Private Equity committee of the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA).
2 min read · 03 December 2014
Online private equity platform iCapital Network has hired Kunal Shah as senior vice president of fund manager due diligence and Caroline Rasmussen as vice president of fund manager due diligence. Previously, Shah was a principal at Meketa Investment Group while Rasmussen worked at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy where she was a member of the firm’s project finance group.
3 min read · 03 December 2014
Invesco's distressed investment arm WL Ross & Co.,has expanded its team with two new hires, according to a spokesperson for the firm. Su Yeo has joined as a principal on the company's investment team and Eric London has become a senior director on the investor relations team. Previously, Yeo worked at Morgan Stanley Principal Investments while London was a principal in Credit Suisse's customized fund investment group. Both are based in New York.
1 min read · 03 December 2014
