The appointee joins the family office and wealth management organisation founded by European businessman and yachting enthusiast Ernesto Bertarelli.

Waypoint Capital Group, a Geneva-headquartered wealth management and family office firm straddling the Atlantic, has appointed Ron Cami as its new group general counsel.

He will report to the group’s chairman, Ernesto Bertarelli, and will serve as a member of the Group’s board of directors. 

Previously, Cami was at Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he was a partner in its corporate department in Northern California and New York, leading the firm’s private equity practice. From 2010 to 2016 he was partner and general counsel of TPG Global in San Francisco, prior to which he was a partner in the Corporate Department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. 

In his career, he has acted for private equity and corporate clients, experienced in M&A transactions, all aspects of private equity transactions, joint ventures, partnerships, shareholder activism and corporate governance issues.

An academic, Cami is a visiting professor at Berkeley School of Law, where he teaches classes on the law of M&A transactions. He received his professional qualification from Rutgers University School of Law in 1993, having completed a BA at Harvard College in 1989. 

This publication tried to contact Waypoint to establish if the appointment involves a newly-formed role or is a replacement and may update in due course.

Waypoint has offices in London, Jersey, Boston and Luxembourg. It is the family office for the Bertarelli family, headed by Swiss businessman Ernesto Bertarelli. The Bertarelli name is most closely associated with the global biotechnology firm Serono, SA, which was grown over the course of three generations of the family. Ernesto was appointed CEO of the company in 1996; the Waypoint group has a strong involvement in the life sciences sector.