Advent International, the global private equity firm, has announced that Peter Nachtnebel will be joining the firm’s Central & Eastern Europe team He will be based at Advent’s Prague office.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced the appointment of Philip Hampton as chairman following seven non-executives leaving the bank.
Law firm SJ Berwin has recruited a new associate, Puzant Merdinian, who is to work in the London office.
Richard Luddington is to become a vice-chairman in global capital markets (GCM) at UBS focusing on the Central Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) region.
Regina Ovesny-Straka, who has been the CEO of Slovenska sporitelna since 2001, is to become the new CEO of Salzburger Sparkasse, one of the largest savings banks in Austria.
The new management board of Parex Banka took office on 5 December 2008. It is chaired by Nils Melngailis, a former executive director of Lattelecom, a leading communications company in the Baltics.
Renaissance Capital has taken on Yury Gruzglin as a managing director and head of the debt product group.
The extraordinary general meeting of shareholders and the board of directors of Alfa Bank have elected Johann Jonach as chairman of the board.
Alpha Associates has announced that Kurt Geiger, former head of financial institutions and private equity and chairman of the equity committee of the EBRD, will join the Zurich-based private equity fund firm as special adviser and chairman of its advisory board.
EQT Partners, investment advisor to all EQT funds, has opened a new office in Warsaw with a team headed by Piotr Czapski.
On November 5, Swedbank appointed Michael Wolf to the position of CEO. Swedbank has subsidiaries in
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has appointed Plutarchos Sakellaris as vice-president. His responsibilities on the EIB’s management committee include supervising financing operations in Denmark, Ireland, Greece, Cyprus, and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. Sakellaris also takes over the EIB’s economic and financial studies division.