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The Dallas-based firm has named Bernhard Engelien as a partner in London and has added two vice presidents, one in Dallas and one in New York.

Tim Flower relocated to the firm’s Hong Kong office from London this month and is the firm’s first dedicated secondaries specialist in the region.

Due to launch early next year, electronic secondaries trading platform Secondcap has hired former AIM head Martin Graham as chairman.

Ian Deas, former head of US secondaries at Pantheon, will help clients of the Sydney-based firm enter the US secondaries market.

The acquisition of a firm led by former Pomona and Hamilton Lane executives is the latest franchise expansion from the increasingly competitive San Diego-based private equity advisory firm.

Matthieu Ducharme has joined the nascent London Private Equity Futures and Options Exchange.

San Francisco-based secondaries specialist Liquid Realty Partners has hired former Morgan Stanley dealmaker Mark Degner as managing director of acquisitions, to replace former CIO Jeff Giller.

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.