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CVC boosts female partner ranks with JP Morgan hire

US bank's former European healthcare head becomes the only female partner at CVC's buyout arm

CVC boosts female partner ranks with JP Morgan hire
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CVC Capital Partners has hired a former senior JP Morgan banker as its European healthcare head, in a rare senior female hire by the private equity firm.

Cathrin Petty was previously head of healthcare for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at JP Morgan. Before that, she was a special partner at private equity firm Vitruvian Partners from 2010 to 2013 and a partner in Apax's healthcare and life sciences team from 2000 to 2010. Petty was named a Financial News Rising Star in Private Equity in 2007.

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