Pinal Nicum will end an eight-year career with London-based Coller to become Adams Street's second European partner focused on secondaries.
Jeff Giller has now left the San Francisco-based secondaries shop after four years with the firm.
Philip Durden has joined former Oak Hill partner James Hale at Aldenwood Group, which next year will seek to raise a sub-$1bn secondaries fund.
Several 3i partners will join DFJ Esprit’s venture secondaries arm, which will manage a portion of 3i’s European VC assets with backing from Coller and HarbourVest.
The promotion follows a first close on €61m for the international private equity firm’s sixth fund, which is targeting €200m. As head of finance at the direct secondaries firm, Meyel built the firm's management and control systems.
The Singapore-based firm has hired Alex Sao-Wei Lee from secondaries specialist Coller Capital.
In a ‘sign of the times’ PEI’s second annual Private Equity Leader award has gone to Jeremy Coller, whose firm manages one of the largest pools of capital in the secondaries market.
The secondaries business has replaced Brian Wright, who left the business back in August 2008, with former Adams Street partner Oliver Gardey.
The New York-based investment bank has hired two former Bear Stears private equity secondaries executives, Jeff Hammer and Paul Sanabria, to run its new advisory service.
The UK-based secondaries firm has hired Eric Pathé as an investment director just months after it appointed Matthew Arkinstall and Robert Savage.