William Blair hired Daniel Budde as a senior director in the firm’s private capital advisory team. Budde is based in Boston and focused on fund placement and secondary advisory. Before joining William Blair, Budde was a senior managing director at Manulife Investment Management.
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, sold its portfolio company Therapeutic Research Center (TRC) to Colibri Group, a portfolio company of Gridiron Capital.
William Blair continued to expand its private capital advisory team with the addition of Sprague Von Stroh as managing director. Based in San Francisco, Von Stroh will focus on West Coast investor coverage across primary, secondary and co-investment advisory assignments.
William Blair hired two industry veterans, Jerome Wallace and Brian Williams, to lead its fund placement and advisory practice.
William Blair continued the expansion of the firm’s private capital advisory investment banking practice with the addition of two senior hires, as Matthew Flynn joined the company as managing director and Hudson Collins joined as a director.
William Blair added two senior hires in the firm’s equities group. Paul Ordinario joined as managing director and south regional sales manager and Chris Stella joined as managing director in equity institutional sales out of New York.
William Blair expanded the firm’s private capital advisory investment banking practice into the primary fund placement market with the addition of three senior hires. Jeff Hypes joined as managing director in Chicago, and Nick Ohler and Andrew Viehe joined as directors in New York.
William Blair continued its European investment banking growth with the addition of Kiara Mitchinson. Based in London, Mitchinson joins as a director in the firm’s financial sponsors group, where she will provide comprehensive advisory services to private equity clients.
William Blair further expanded its investment banking team with the addition of William Kallop as a managing director in the firm’s consumer and retail group. Kallop joined William Blair from Goldman Sachs.
William Blair expanded its investment banking team with the addition of David Hatch. As a managing director on the supply chain and commercial services team, Hatch draws on a career spanning more than 15 years focused on clients across the supply chain services sector.