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Ocorian, a provider of trust, administration and fiduciary services, has expanded its senior team in London with appointment of a Business Development Director and Head of Client Services.
Kristina Rowe brings over 20 years of financial services experience to Ocorian, joining from State Street where she worked in the private equity and real estate fund administration business, as well as the EMEA Strategy Chief Administrative Office. As Director, Head of Client Services (UK) she is responsible for delivering services to corporate and institutional clients, alternative investment funds, corporate trustee clients and private clients.
Rowe says: “I’m delighted to have
Global law firm Goodwin has opened a new office in Luxembourg. Together with Goodwin’s existing London-based Luxembourg desk, the new office will serve as a single solution for the firm’s global clients raising and deploying capital in Europe.
“With a market-leading funds practice in the United States and Europe, and now an on-the-ground presence in Luxembourg to augment our well-established, London-based Luxembourg desk, Goodwin is uniquely positioned to serve multi-national financial institutions, fund sponsors and asset managers looking to do business in this favoured international jurisdiction,” says Rob Insolia, Chairman of Goodwin. “As the firm at the confluence of capital
RWC Partners, a UK-based asset management business, has appointed Huan Ke as a new Head of Legal and Compliance.
Ke has over 19 years of experience and joins from Macquarie Asset Management where he spent eight years as Head of Legal (EMEA) for the Macquarie Investment Management and Macquarie Private Credit business divisions.
Ke will join RWC’s London office and have oversight and responsibility of tis global legal and compliance functions.
HSBC Global Asset Management has appointed Jorge Huitron as Senior Product Specialist for private markets in the firm’s Alternatives Team.
Huitron will be responsible for the developing HSBC Global Asset Management’s private markets offering and expanding the platform to a larger institutional investor base across Europe and Asia.
Huitron joins from AON Hewitt where he was Senior Consultant advising on private equity investment across public and corporate pension plans.
Steven Ward, Global Head of Alternative Products, HSBC Global Asset Management, says: “Jorge is a hugely experienced private equity specialist and we’re very pleased to have him on board.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has appointed Michelle Kirschner as a partner in the firm’s London office. Kirschner, formerly a partner with Macfarlanes, will continue to focus on financial services regulation at Gibson Dunn.
“We are pleased to welcome Michelle to the firm,” says Ken Doran, Chairman and Managing Partner of Gibson Dunn. “The growth of our transactional practices continues to be a strategic priority for us. Michelle’s regulatory focus will complement our transactional practices in London and further strengthen our capital markets, private equity, public M&A and finance practices.”
“Michelle is an excellent addition to the firm,” says Jeffrey
City law firm McCarthy Denning has appointed a new Partner, Dr Werner Meier, who will be working across three of the firm’s core sector practices: Restructuring, Banking and Finance, and Corporate.
Meier is one of the leading European finance and restructuring lawyers with a multinational practice, having previously worked out of the Frankfurt, New York and London offices of major international law firms. Werner will take on the mantle of Co-Head of Finance & Restructuring at McCarthy Denning.
With 28 years of experience, Meier has developed a notable specialism in German and European debt and corporate restructuring work. He
Dentons has continued to strengthen its Corporate team in London with the hire of M&A and private equity specialist Paul Doris, who was most recently a partner in Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s London office.
Having previously worked in Madrid, Frankfurt and Paris, Doris specialises in advising international financial sponsors (including private equity firms, infrastructure investors and pension funds) on cross border and domestic mergers, acquisitions and disposals, with a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors. He has led corporate transactions involving assets and operations in locations including Spain, Latin America, Africa and India.
David Collins, partner and
UK alternative investment manager Triple Point, has appointed financial services professional Jack Rose as Strategic Sales Director.
Rose brings a wealth of experience to Triple Point having spent the last seven years working at the financial product distribution company LGBR Capital where he was head of their Tax Efficient Investment Division, LightTower Partners, and as such was responsible for creating, organising and implementing the distribution strategy for the EIS, VCT and IHT products the firm represented. Prior to this he was a Sales and Marketing Executive at Matrix Group’s Asset Management Division.
In his new role at Triple Point
MJ Hudson, a London-headquartered asset management consultancy, has made three senior appointments.
Declan Canavan has been appointed Commercial Director and a Managing Director with responsibility for business development. Canavan joins from JP Morgan Asset Management where he was Managing Director and Head of Alternative Investment strategies for the EMEA region. Canavan brings two decades of experience across a wide spectrum of alternative asset classes and investment disciplines.
Remarking on his appointment, Canavan says: “As sophisticated alternative investment platforms across private markets, real assets and hedge funds seek to grow their businesses, they are looking for partners with multi-disciplinary capability
Guy Pope has joined Business Growth Fund (BGF) as an investor.
Pope specialises in all aspects of mid-market transactions for sectors including, retail pharmacy, engineering and exhibitions. Before his appointment to BGF’s Reading team, he worked for BCMS Corporate.
Pope’s role at BGF will see him working across the investment process, from building relationships with entrepreneurs and businesses within the South of England to supporting existing portfolio companies and those already progressing through the investment process.
Pope says: “I am thrilled to be part of such a well-respected team at BGF here in Reading, which has seen a
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