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Walter Robb joins as senior advisor and Taryn Goodman as sector lead for food and agriculture.

Cheryl Potter has taken over as chair of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, the third woman to hold the role since 1983.

The firm is on the hunt for a replacement for prominent private equity investor Richard Clarke-Jervoise, who is moving to Paris from the London-based firm.

Junior and mid-level employees are widely regarded as attractive targets, while more senior personnel may find themselves on the receiving end of tough questions from future business partners.

The leader of TPG’s The Rise Fund, the most prominent impact investor in the industry, has been charged over his alleged role in a college admissions bribery and money laundering scam. The fallout could be significant.

While successful buyers are likely to take on a healthy number of mid-level staff, PEI looks at which senior personnel have left and who remains behind.

John Childs, who co-founded the firm in 1995, is one of 165 subjects named by police in Florida following a six-month investigation into massage parlours.

The firm has temporarily suspended the four detained employees amid a dispute over the transfer of shares from one of its portfolio companies.

The four members of one of Russia's oldest private equity firms were detained on Thursday due to a dispute pertaining to retail bank Orient Express, a Baring Vostok portfolio company.