Adam Fless has joined Paine and Partners from a KKR unit dedicated to improving performance of portfolio companies in a newly-created position with the same focus.
Sami Khan has joined Rabo Equity Advisors, an India-focused private equity fund sponsored by Rabobank.
Jay Clayton, a private equity lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell, has been nominated to head the Securities and Exchange Commission by President-elect Donald Trump, sister publication Private Funds Management reported.
The Division of Enforcement, the SEC's largest, ramped up its enforcement actions in private equity this year.
Dr. Stephen Padgette, co-inventor of gene that confers the most widely-used biotechnology trait in agriculture, will work with the firm’s existing portfolio companies and help find new opportunities as an operating director.
As US farmers grow older -- and greyer -- nimble PE firms offer the potential for an attractive exit
BrightFarm’s CEO Paul Lightfoot takes the stage as keynote speaker at Agri Investor’s annual conference in Chicago.
The new hire is part of the firm's broader objective to open up global investment opportunities.
Caroline Weir, a former partner and financial controller at NewSmith Asset Management, has joined the placement agent in London.
The Connecticut system of pension funds, which allocates 9.2% of its $30bn in assets to private equity, named Laurie Martin deputy CIO to replace Deborah Spalding, who became CIO in July 2015.