Ogier has appointed David Cooney and Bradley Kruger as Partners in the Cayman office and Michael Killourhy (pictured) as a Partner in the BVI office.  In addition, Partner Simon Schilder has joined the Jersey Funds team and five Senior Associates have been promoted to Managing Associate across the BVI, Cayman,

Jim Dondero, Co-Founder and President of Highland Capital Management, has been named Senior Portfolio Manager of the firm's Energy MLP Fund, effective 1 February, 2015. Dondero joins Jon Poglitsch, CFA and Matthew Gray, CFA as lead managers of the fund. Dondero, Poglitsch and Gray will be responsible for all of

CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre has appointed four new partners – Alexandre Delhaye, Caroline Froger-Michon, Frédéric Gerner and Claire Vannini.   The firm now has 103 partners out of a total of 380 lawyers.      Alexandre Delhaye, 40, joined CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre’s Corporate/M&A department in 2001 after working in

Law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton announced has appointed Peter Olds, former legal director at Actis, as counsel in the firms’ London office. Olds joined Actis, a private equity firm investing exclusively in Africa, Asia and Latin America, in 2009. Peter was previously a senior associate in Clifford Chance’s

Fund governance firm DMS Offshore Investment Services (DMS) has appointed Westley Chapman as a Director. Chapman will serve on the boards of investment funds, providing independent oversight on governance and compliance matters. He will also function as Director, Operational Due Diligence and will be based in New York. As even

Aequitas Capital Partners (ACP), a division of Aequitas Capital's wealth management platform, has hired four new regional directors. "For ACP, 2014 was a year of notable accomplishments, including the successful launch of our unit, followed by an overwhelming response from the growth-oriented RIA marketplace. To date, 43 firms have adopted