Tilney Bestinvest, the UK investment and financial planning group, has appointed Stuart Layzell as Chief Financial Officer.  Layzell brings to Tilney Bestinvest a wide range of experience in senior management, M&A and private equity roles in both the UK and US. Layzell began his career with PwC where he qualified

Law firm Brown Rudnick has appointed Didier Bruère-Dawson and David Malamed as partners in the Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring Practice in the firm’s Paris office. With the addition of Bruère-Dawson and Malamed, Brown Rudnick continues to build and strengthen the firm's Paris presence and its international platform in one of

Peter Freire is to assume the role of Chief Executive Officer of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) on 8 June. Freire succeeds Kathy Jeramaz-Larson who has served as Executive Director for the past eight years and will be stepping down at the end of the month.   Freire joins

Richard A Silfen has rejoined law firm Duane Morris as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group.  Silfen is returning to Duane Morris from having served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of American Realty Capital Properties, Inc, a commercial real estate investment trust based in Phoenix.  

JLT Specialty Insurance Services has added several new team members to the firm’s Private Equity and Financial Lines Group.  This group will provide brokerage and advisory services to clients in the private equity sector as well as financial institutions, and will be based in JLT Specialty USA’s New York office.

Elian, a provider of corporate services, fund services, private wealth and capital services, has extended its international footprint with the opening of an office in New York.   The New York office will support Elian’s fast-growing and comprehensive range of corporate services, including corporate structuring, structured finance and asset finance.