PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS Merida Capital Partners, the New York cannabis-focused private equity firm, promoted Daisy Mellet to partner and hired Kevin Fickle as second West Coast partner. The firm also named Danny Moses, who is a private investor and entrepreneur, to its investment committee, and tapped Mina Mishrikey a director and Maxwell Gerard an analyst. Angeles Equity Partners named Frank Spelman a managing director. Spelman was a […]
Buyout and growth-equity firms continue to hire talent at a rapid pace this year, driven in part by strength in fundraising and by the growing need to extract bargains from a white-hot market for deals. The sale of minority stakes by firms, often a precursor to diversification, has also fueled hiring. “I would say it’s […]
Gallary took over as head of the business last year Former head of fund stakes Herchel left to join MLC Not clear who will take over the strategy Turnover continues to roil AlpInvest Partners’ efforts to get into the business of buying minority stakes in GP management companies. Recently, Sean Gallary, who has led the effort […]
Hardest part was walking away from stable situation Underestimated the challenges of fundraising Klemann’s GHK focuses on industrials The idea of having to overpay for assets in today’s hypercompetitive large-cap market helped persuade ex-Goldman Sachs banker Gilbert Klemann to leave the relative security of his position and launch as a fundless sponsor. Klemann left Goldman […]
This week’s jobs include a vice president at Lazard, an associate at Argentum and analysts at Draper and Lightyear.
This week’s jobs include an investor relations director at BlackRock, associate spots at Summit and Neuberger Berman and an analyst at TIAA.
PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS Providence Equity Partners: The Providence Strategic Growth Capital Partners affiliate named Bill Aliber and Brian Shin managing directors. Aliber is ex-chief financial officer of Ascend Learning while Shin was recently a partner at In-Q-Tel. Skyview Capital named Darryl Smith president of global portfolio operations. Smith will be based in the firm’s new Dallas office. Prior to joining Skyview, Smith was a managing […]
This week’s jobs include a private equity vice president at Goldman Sachs, investments counsel at CapitalG and an associate at MetLife.
Departure triggers key-man provision Firm moves other executive to lead fund Closed debut European mid market fund last year Jannik Kruse Petersen, head of EQT’s European middle-market fund, is leaving the firm after a transition period, a spokeswoman confirmed for Buyouts. The leadership change at the fund tripped a key-man provision, which was resolved by the […]
This week’s jobs include an investment professional at Owl Ventures, associates at CPPIB and Lazard and an analyst at GCM Grosvenor.