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International law firm Simmons & Simmons has opened for business in Dublin, having always had close links with the Irish funds industry.
Simmons & Simmons says that Ireland has been the fastest growing major fund domicile in Europe over the last five years, a tangible reflection of the benefits the Dublin office can offer the firm’s clients.
Simmons & Simmons is aiming to establish a ten-partner, 40-person practice within the next three years, supporting its asset management and financial institution clients across the breadth of their operations, including investment funds, regulatory, banking, capital markets, tax and corporate. The firm has
Coinsilium Group Limited, a financer of early-stage blockchain technology companies, has appointed Malcolm Burne as a project advisor to TerraStream, its Gibraltar-registered wholly-owned subsidiary, with immediate effect.
Burne has a long-standing career in financial markets in the UK, Australia and Canada including directorships of a number of listed mining companies. He has led various successful natural resource ventures and has also built Ambrian Capital Plc into London’s premier natural resource broker at the time. He is currently Founder Chairman of Golden Prospect Precious Metals, a closed-end fund, and advisor to Altus Strategies and Arlington Group Asset Management.
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Mercia Fund Managers has expanded its equity team with the appointment of Matt Molyneux as Investment Manager.
A chartered accountant with 12 years’ experience in finance, Molyneux joins from BDO in Manchester, where he spent seven years in the transaction services team providing due diligence to private equity firms.
In his new role, he will be based at Mercia’s Manchester office as part of the EV Growth team, focused on investing in high-growth SMEs across the UK. Molyneux will be responsible for sourcing and completing investments and advising portfolio companies. His appointment follows the closing of the GBP45.1 million
Technology, media and communications global investment bank Drake Star Partners has hired two new partners to strengthen its US senior team in both its New York and San Francisco offices.
Kevin Berry joins the firm’s San Francisco office as a Partner, Business Development. Juan Mejia joins the firm’s New York office as a Partner.
Berry has more than 25 years of experience in the investment banking and financial services industry. Prior to Drake Star, he was a Vice President in Houlihan Lokey’s Technology-Media-Telecom team, where he was responsible for originating some of the group’s marquee transactions.
Mejia brings more
AMP Capital has appointed Malcolm Brown as a Senior Principal in its Global Infrastructure Equity business in London, marking the continued growth of its global real assets capability.
Brown was formerly Chief Executive of Angel Trains, the UK’s largest rolling-stock company. AMP Capital manages a majority stake in Angel Trains on behalf of investors in its Global Infrastructure Equity strategy. In addition to this role, Brown has acted as a Senior Advisor to AMP Capital’s infrastructure business since 2015.
David Rees, Global Co-Head of Asset Management, AMP Capital, says: “Having worked closely with Malcolm for several years through our
Law firm Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) has appointed Lisa Phelan as a partner in the firm’s Global Antitrust Law Practice and Investigations + White Collar Group based in Washington DC.
For the last 16 years, Phelan has been Chief of the National Criminal Enforcement and Washington Criminal I Sections of the Antitrust Division at the US Department of Justice, after previously serving as a senior criminal litigator.


As Chief of the National Criminal Enforcement and Washington Criminal I Sections of the Antitrust Division, Phelan supervised and coordinated all investigative and litigation work on international and national criminal cartel cases.
FrontLine Compliance has strengthened its consulting team in response to the continued growth of the firm’s offerings of regulatory compliance advising and support for SEC registered investment advisers and private funds.
Mike Spero, a former Chief Compliance Officer, recently joined FrontLine Compliance as Senior Vice President to handle clients’ compliance requirements.
Spero specialises in complex regulatory compliance matters for investment advisers and private funds. With over seventeen years of compliance specific experience, he has excelled in senior compliance roles guiding money managers on the implementation and oversight of an effective compliance program. Spero most recently served as Chief Compliance
Investment bank Houlihan Lokey has appointed Zade Zalatimo as a Managing Director in the firm’s Corporate Finance business, effective September.
Zalatimo will be based in Dubai and will spearhead the expansion of the Private Funds Group and contribute to Houlihan Lokey’s broader advisory capabilities in the region.
Zalatimo will join Houlihan Lokey from The Carlyle Group, where he was the senior executive officer of Carlyle MENA responsible for leading the firm’s business activities in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. His responsibilities included developing and maintaining relationships with family offices, endowments, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds
Howard E Cotton and Michael S Gordon, both seasoned trial attorneys with decades of experience in high-stakes commercial litigation, have joined BakerHostetler as partners based in New York.
Cotton (pictured), and Gordon come to BakerHostetler to continue their more than 20 years of working together as a successful litigation team.
They arrive from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, where Cotton previously held many leadership positions, including serving as a national co-chair of commercial litigation and on the national executive committee, compensation committee and board of directors.
Cotton is a prominent first-chair litigator who combines consummate litigation strategy and courtroom
HSBC has strengthened its financial sponsors coverage with the appointment of Alexander Glawe as Managing Director, Head of Northern Europe Financial Sponsors. Glawe will join in December 2018 with responsibility for advising private equity clients in Germany, Austria and the Nordics.
Glawe will also be responsible for the coverage of selected sponsors on a pan-European basis. He joins from Credit Suisse where he was most recently Managing Director, Head of Financial Sponsors Germany and Austria. He brings more than 15 years of investment banking experience, along with deep financial sponsor relationships and extensive expertise in advising and financing clients.
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