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The move comes amid a flurry of multi-billion-dollar GP-led deal launches in the region.

The law firm has promoted Ed Ford, who in the last year has advised on GP-led transactions worth billions in transaction value, to bolster its secondaries capabilities.

Dave Philipp has been with the firm since 2013.

The hire will help the firm expand, with an emphasis on GP-leds, access to the secondaries market for private clients and smaller institutions.

The promotion of Robert de Corainville is one several personnel changes across the preferred equity firm.

Whitehorse, Morningside, MJ Hudson and Proskauer Rose are among the firms represented on affiliate title PEI’s list of most impressive people under 40.

The four-person team led by managing director Matthew Wesley will join Jefferies less than a year after joining Guggenheim.

The Swiss interdealer-broker has hired two professionals to focus on the asset class, Secondaries Investor has learned.

The private equity giant is looking at opportunities to acquire secondaries firms or set the unit up organically, according to co-president and co-COO Scott Nuttall.

Thomas Doyle will leave the London-based preferred equity specialist in the coming weeks, having joined from JPMorgan in 2018.