AXIS Capital Holdings Limited (AXIS Capital) has appointed Chris Caponigro as Global Head of AXIS ILS and rebranded its third party capital unit as AXIS ILS. 

Silver Creek Capital Management (Silver Creek), a boutique alternative investment manager, has appointed Brendan Connor, former Executive Director and a strategy head within the Absolute Return Strategies group at GCM Grosvenor, as a Managing Director.  In this role, Connor will serve as a portfolio manager for select Silver Creek hedge fund strategies and build upon the firm’s longstanding history of managing a diversified portfolio of long-term alpha generators irrespective of market conditions. Based in Seattle, Connor reports to Art Zaske, Silver Creek’s Deputy Chief Investment Officer.   “Brendan is a respected industry executive whose deep cross asset investment and portfolio

MDOTM, a European specialist in developing AI-Driven investment strategies for institutional investors, has appointed Lucrezia Grasso as its new Senior Vice President of Business Development.  Grasso, who will be based in Milan, has worked for 10-plus years in London gaining significant experience in the asset management industry. Before joining MDOTM, she was Citigroup’s Hedge Fund & Real Money Rates Sales Director, where she gained in-depth knowledge of large institutional investors such as MAN Group, Brevan Howard and Bridgewater Associates and their sophisticated quantitative investment strategies.  With Grasso, MDOTM strengthens its Business Development team led by Axel Maier that over the

LGT Capital Partners has appointed Mark Miller as Head of LGT Capital Partners (UK) Limited succeeding Mark White, CEO at LGT Capital Partners (UK) Ltd. The change is subject to regulatory approval. Miller joined LGT Capital Partners in June 2020 as Head of UK Business Development from Federated Hermes – International where he was Head of Global Client Group. Miller has previously worked in senior business development roles at Amundi, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management and Fidelity International. In his new role Mark will assume overall responsibility for LGT Capital Partner’s UK office and client business. White joined LGT Capital Partners

Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, has appointed Urs Rohner as a member of its International Advisory Board (IIAB) as of 1 July 2021. Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…

Antares Capital, a private debt credit manager with more than USD30 billion of capital under management and administration, has appointed Jeffrey Stammen as Managing Director, Head of Investor Coverage in Asset Management. Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…  

Trium Capital, a family office backed independent asset manager, has hired multi-asset investor Toby Hayes. With more than 20 years’ experience in creating and managing multi-asset and alternative strategies, Hayes has built expertise across a wide range of areas, including structural returns, risk premia and factor investing. In several high-profile roles, Hayes has consistently delivered uncorrelated returns to investors. Prior to joining Trium Capital, he was head of multi-asset at Fortem Capital, where he launched and managed the Fortem Capital Alternative Growth Fund. The strategy was particularly notable for its outperformance during the height of the pandemic-induced market sell-off –

Alternative asset manager Cheyne Capital Management (UK) (Cheyne) has opened a new office in Paris – the firm’s fifth office in Europe and its eighth globally. Stuart Fiertz, Co-Founder, President & Head of Responsible Investment at Cheyne Capital, says: “Since 2018, our private credit investment teams have continued to see more and more interesting opportunities in Europe and particularly in France, so opening an office in Paris was the natural next step. Being in close proximity to those we finance is important to us and we look forward to growing our presence in the country further.” Over the past four

Davis Polk has appointed Sheila Adams, Matthew Bacal, Ning Chiu, Ethan Goldman, David Hahn, Eric McLaughlin, Adam Shpeen, Travis Triano and Steve Wang as partners of the Firm, effective July 1, 2021. Shpeen joins the firm’s Restructuring practice in New York. He has significant experience representing debtors, creditors, banks, hedge funds and other strategic financial actors in connection with complex chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings, including prepackaged and traditional bankruptcies, liability management transactions, debt exchanges, credit transactions, debtor-in-possession financings, exit financings and section 363 sales.