Moves and Promotions — Week of 18 August, 2025

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Pollen Street Capital, a fast-growing private capital asset manager, has acquired a majority stake in Leonard Curtis. Read more.

Promotions

• Andy Barron has been promoted to Insolvency Manager at Parker Andrews. Read more.

• Juan Ramón Marquina Serrano has been promoted to Associate, Financial Restructuring Group at Houlihan Lokey.

Moves

• Chris Hook has joined Tees in Cambridge as a Partner. Chris was previously with HRJ Foreman Laws. Read more.

• Sam Russell has joined FTI Consulting as a Managing Director in the firm’s Restructuring team. Sam was previously with PwC. Read more.

• Ed Ferguson has joined the Restructuring team at Opus in Manchester as a Senior Administrator. Ed was most recently a Senior Analyst at Deloitte in Australia. Read more.

• Billy Long has joined KR8 Advisory in London as a Restructuring Advisory Associate. Billy was previously with Kroll.

• Charlie Wootton has joined Kroll in London as a Restructuring Advisory Analyst. Charlie was previously with Lloyds Banking Group.