Joanna Andrews has joined FIRSTAvenue as a managing director in the project management team.
Andrews, who was previously a member of the private funds group with Weil, Gotshal & Manges, will focus on advising infrastructure and private equity general partners. She is based in London.
Andrews was hired with four others as FIRSTAvenue further builds out its global client advisory and marking capabilities. John Linger has joined as a senior advisor in New York City, where he will focus primarily on real estate private credit; Jason Melser has joined as a director, private credit marketing and origination in FIRSTavenue’s New York office; Nick Oates joins as a director on the U.S. marketing team covering Texas and the Southwest and specializing in the RIA market; and Benjamin Thibaudat has joined as a director in the marketing team at the firm’s London office, where he will support the distribution of the firm’s mandates to institutional investors based in Fra