Partner Anthony Choe left last year Not clear exactly when and why he left firm Not listed on new marketing docs Brentwood Associates Partner Anthony Choe left the firm last year, two sources confirmed for Buyouts. It’s not clear exactly when and why Choe left Brentwood. He is no longer listed on the website. Choe […]
PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS Cerberus Capital Management: Cerberus Business Finance, the direct lending affiliate, hired Andrew Woolford as a managing director for its New York office. Woolford most recently served as head of leveraged loan sales at Jefferies LLC. Comvest Partners: Comvest Capital, the direct lending group, named Tom Goila a managing director. Goila previously worked at Goldman Sachs’s specialty lending group. Constitution Capital: Steven Shekane and Jonathan […]
I recently was sitting over coffee with an investment-relations professional, and the topic of Réal Desrochers came up. I was wondering whether my source had heard anything about Réal retiring. My source hadn’t heard anything but went on to talk about how the firm wasn’t going to invite California Public Employees’ Retirement System into its new […]
Makes debt and equity investments in clean energy infra Has invested across technologies, focused now on solar Works with partners in tax equity and senior debt markets The U.S. solar market is surging, with capacity having grown by 95 percent last year. “I was fortunate enough to participate at the beginning,” said Scott Brown, who […]
Victory Park specializes in investing in the specialty-finance sector. How do you define that marketplace? For us, specialty finance is predominantly non-bank lending. It may be a platform that does it online, it may be an institution that has brick-and-mortar locations, or maybe it’s a hybrid of the two. They’re lending to small businesses, they’re […]
Ryan Hill returns to Minnesota investment board Not clear when he left North Carolina North Carolina considers PE portfolio sale Ryan Hill, a private equity portfolio manager at North Carolina Treasury Department, has left and returned to Minnesota State Investment Board. Hill started at North Carolina in October 2015. It’s unclear when he left the […]
Silverstein to stay in role as global co-head of PE Been with firm since 1998 Has launched foundation with his wife to research disease Jonathan Silverstein, partner at healthcare investor OrbiMed Advisors, has been diagnosed with a rare form of Parkinson’s disease, but will continue full-time in his role as global co-head of private equity […]
Desrochers to take role at “large overseas bank” Joined CalPERS from Saudi Arabian Investment Co in 2011 Desrochers previously led CalSTRS PE program Réal Desrochers is stepping down from his role at the helm of California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s private equity portfolio to take a position at a large overseas bank, according to the […]
Alex Leykikh, James Weidner, Brendan Edmonds form firm Not clear if they retain roles with A-P Capital A-P Capital recently named new CEO Three senior executives are spinning out from Atlantic-Pacific Capital to form their own placement shop, two sources told Buyouts. Atlantic-Pacific partners Alex Leykikh, James Weidner and Brendan Edmonds are forming Metric Point Capital. They’ve […]
Tony James: Trump to take moderate Ryan’s tax approach Trump struggles to avoid foreign-affairs “land mines”: James New president softening on protectionist policies President Donald Trump may fall short of some of the sky-high expectations the stock market set for tax reform, Blackstone Group’s Hamilton James said. “My own view is he’s going to have […]