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people moves
HitecVision’s exploration
& production team expands
HitecVision has appointed Harald Vabø and Svein Arild
Killingland to join the firm’s exploration and production
investment team.
Vabø and Killingland both have experience in the oil & gas
industry. Prior to joining HitecVision, Vabø was CEO at oil
company Wintershall Norge, previously known as Revus Energy.
Killingland also worked for Wintershall Norge, where he was
head of business development, before joining HitecVision.
HitecVision was the primary investor in Revus Energy in
December 2002. The company was floated in 2005, giving the
investor a 5x return on investment.
Industry Investment
strengthens team
Finnish government-backed Industry Investment has
appointed Anne Riekki as chief financial officer and Thomas
Ahlström as senior adviser.
As CFO, Riekki will head Industry Investment’s finance,
administration and asset management teams; she replaces
Marko Häikiö, who is away on a year’s study leave. Riekki
joined Industry Investment as investment manager in 2007
and was appointed investment director in 2009.
New senior adviser Ahlström previously worked for Helmi
Capital, an investment consultancy he founded, and for
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken as country manager for
Finland and CEO of the Helsinki branch.
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CalPERS private equity
manager steps down
Leon Shahinian stepped down as head of the private equity
portfolio at CalPERS amid a fraud lawsuit.
On 8 May, Shahinian was put on paid administrative leave
after a lawsuit identified the investment manager.
The lawsuit claimed that Alfred Villalobos attempted to bribe
Shahinian, who had accepted an invitation to New York and
was flown in by private jet. Shahinian later recommended
the pension fund to invest in Apollo Global Management.
Chief investment officer Joseph Dear will take over
Shahinian’s duties until a replacement is found.
Hannes Snellman recruits
three to Nordic office
Hannes Snellman has recruited Bjorn Kristianson, Mikkel
Baaring Lerche and Nikolaj Bjornholm to its Nordic law office.
Equity capital markets specialist Kristianson has been hired
as partner, while Baaring Lerche and Bjornholm will work as
lawyers, specialising in M&A and corporate law and Danish and
international corporate tax respectively.
Baaring Lerche will have particular responsibility for private
equity transactions and Bjornholm will focus on transactionrelated
tax advice.
Phillip Risbjorn, the company’s managing partner in
Copenhagen, said: “We aim to grow to some 50 lawyers,
including 10-12 partners, within three years.”
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