Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has promoted eight attorneys to the partnership, effective 1 January 2014. Rob Boller is in the firm’s litigation practice. He represents companies, partnerships and individuals in a variety of litigation and criminal/regulatory matters, with a particular focus on disputes arising out of complex financial
Doug Smith has joined Insight’s corporate insurance consultancy business. Smith has held previous senior positions as chairman of Marsh’s private equity practice and latterly as non-executive deputy chairman of Willis’ M&A practice. Smith will team up again with former Corporate Risk plc colleague Colin Paterson, the managing director and
Private equity firm HarbourVest Partners has promoted Julie Eiermann and Tim Flower to managing director. Eiermann is one of HarbourVest’s longest-serving employees, joining the firm in 1993. During her 20 years with the firm, she has built the portfolio analytics team into one of HarbourVest’s most valuable assets. The portfolio analytics
Commercial law firm CMS Hasche Sigle is closing its Dresden office. The current head, Dr Helmut Schwarz, is leaving the firm at the end of the year. Schwarz is joining Hamburg-based partnership CADMUS and will work in both cities in the future. Dr Hubertus Kolster, managing partner of
Catella’s president and chief executive Johan Ericsson has been appointed as the new head of corporate finance, one of the two operating segments in the company. The role will be shared with a person who is to be recruited. The dual leadership structure will enable Catella to focus both on
Ingenious, the UK alternative investment and advisory group, has strengthened its clean energy division with five new appointments, including Helen Wade as a senior investment director. In addition, the firm has appointed one investment director, one investment manager and two investment associates. The appointments bring Ingenious Clean Energy’s team of investment
AllianceBernstein, a global investment management firm with USD447bn in assets under management, has appointed Christine Johnson as senior vice president – head of alternatives product management. In this newly created role, Johnson will join AllianceBernstein's growing alternatives team and collaborate with senior investment and distribution executives to drive the growth
Altegris, a provider of alternative investments, has named Jack L Rivkin as chief investment officer. Rivkin will oversee the firm's research and investments group and will be a member of the Altegris investment committee. He will also have overall responsibility for identifying, selecting and monitoring fund managers across multiple
Vinson & Elkins has promoted seven lawyers to its partnership: Manuel Berrelez, Christopher Dewar, and Christina Tate in Dallas; Ryan Carney and Adam Larson in Houston; Jenny Doak in London; and Katy Gottsponer in Washington, D.C.

 “The impressive work these lawyers have done on behalf of our clients has been
Gaw Capital Partners USA has appointed Ashish Gupta as senior vice president for acquisitions. Gupta (pictured) will be based in the soon-to-be opened New York City office and is responsible for US investments for the firm, with a focus on projects located on the east coast and other select knowledge-
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