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Firm: Alinda Capital Partners LLC Founded: 2005 Investment Professionals: 40 Leader: Chris Beale, managing partner, former global head of project finance at Citigroup, and previously global head of project finance at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston Strategy: Invests $300 million to $500 million per deal, at pace of $500 million to $1.5 billion […]

Mark Anson has joined Oak Hill Investment Management as a managing partner and chair of the firm’s investment committee. He previously was with Nuveen Investments as president and executive director of investment services. Before that, he served as CEO of Hermes Pensions Management and as CIO for CalPERS. Bill Aulet has been named managing director […]

RLJ Equity Partners is finally putting money to work, though probably not exactly in the way founder Robert L. Johnson, the billionaire media mogul, envisioned when he set out more than four years ago to invest in media, financial services and business services industries. In its first platform investment, the mid-market buyout firm on Jan. […]

Firm: ACI Capital Headquarters: New York Leader: Kevin Penn Number of Investment Professionals: 9 ACI Capital, once a promising mid-market buyout shop, has stopped investing in new platform companies. Executives at the New York-based firm told investors in September that they would wind down the portfolio after making only two investments from its second fund, […]

Magnus Christensson has joined Jefferies as a managing director and European head of the firm’s fund placement group. He previously was with Atlantic-Pacific Capital. Bob Deutsch has joined GCP Capital as a managing director. He previously was CEO of GCP portfolio company Ironshore Inc. Paul Donofrio has been named head of global corporate banking at […]

Firm: Leonard Green & Partners Top executives: John Danhakl, Peter Nolan, Jon Sokoloff Founded: 1989 Investment Professionals: 21 Strategy: Invests in control buyouts, as well as public debt and equity securities and other structured equity transactions Leonard Green & Partners LP is back in the buyout game. The Los Angeles-based firm on Jan. 13 announced […]

Firm: Water Street Healthcare Partners Year Founded: 2005 Headquarters: Chicago Leader: Tim Dugan, Managing Partner Strategy: Create market-leading platform companies in diagnostic devices, medical products, specialty distribution and other niche segments of the health care industry that can eventually be sold to larger strategic buyers. Number of Investment Professionals: 13, plus five operating partners The […]

In a bid to simplify and shorten decision-making lines, EVCA have announced a wave of changes to its model of governance. Under the new structure venture capital, mid-market and large buyouts platform councils have become the most powerful bodies in EVCA. As EVCA’s executive committee is disbanded, elected members of each platform council will constitute […]

UK corporate finance partner Close Brothers Corporate Finance has reorganised its senior management team. Stephen Aulsebrook, current CEO of CBCF and CEO of UK business will now exclusively be CEO of European business. The aim of this move is to drive the firm’s European growth as it continues to be supported by Daiwa Securities. In […]