Golding Capital Partners, a European independent alternative investment asset manager, has promoted Richard Wilmes, head of secondaries, to partner.
Wilmes has been with the firm for more than 15 years and built up the secondaries team from 2012. He was previously an investment banking analyst – global industries group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
“With over a decade of pioneering work in building up the secondaries sector and his deep understanding of the market, Richard Wilmes is an outstanding expert,” said Jeremy Golding, founder and managing partner at Golding. “With his promotion we have established the secondaries business at partner level and underlined the relevance of transaction-oriented investments. Secondaries and co-investments already represent about 50 percent of our investments.”
Golding said Wilmes’ promotion underscores the firm’s increasing importance of transaction-oriented investments. It comes on the back of an active fu