Partners Group announced a change in the firm's Co-CEO office. David Layton, Partner and Head of Private Equity, will replace Christoph Rubeli as Co-CEO from 1 January 2019. He will join André Frei, who has been Co-CEO since 2013, in the Co-CEO office.

Christoph Rubeli will additionally step down from Partners Group's Executive Committee and Global Executive Board by the end of this year, but he will remain a Partner of the firm. David Layton joined Partners Group in 2005 in its headquarters in Baar-Zug, Switzerland. Prior to his current role as global Head of Private Equity, he was the Americas Head of Private Equity, based in New York.