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The search comes as Montana recently closed its third fund with €400m after about 10 weeks of fundraising.

James Jupp and Jennifer Galloway are the latest hires at the London firm that specialises in tail-end acquisitions and direct investments.

The infrastructure and private equity secondaries firm has hired a secondaries professional in its London office and promoted several staff globally.

Based in Menlo Park, California, the senior investment director will specialise in secondaries and fund of funds research.

The firm, which manages investments of non-profit organisations, hired Chris Anderson earlier in the summer to focus on secondaries and recently appointed Chris Willoughby as new CIO starting next week.

The London-based secondaries firm appointed Clifford Meijer, who comes from Thomas Weisel Partners Group.

This is the 12th office for the Paris-based firm, which is building a local team to focus on fund of funds relationships, and direct, infrastructure and private debt investments.

Sabina Sammartino, who was previously at Paul Capital, will head the firm’s growing global secondaries advisory team.

The associate will focus on secondaries and will work within 50 South Capital, which was formed earlier this year from Northern Trust Alternatives Group.