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Akin Gump has appointed Michael Joyce as a partner in its global energy and transactions practice in Singapore.
Joyce comes to Akin Gump from Norton Rose Fulbright, where he was head of the oil and gas group for Australia.
He has relocated from Sydney, Australia, back to Singapore where he was based earlier in his career.
Joyce has more than two decades of experience advising private sector and government clients on matters involving natural gas and oil value chains. This includes acquisition of upstream assets and operational oil and gas field businesses; negotiation of joint operating agreements, farm-in
Peer-to-peer finance platform Assetz Capital has appointed Mark Standley, the former branch manager at Handelsbanken Cardiff and Bridgend, to oversee the firm’s expansion plans for South Wales.
Prior to his time at Handelsbanken, Standley was with Barclays leading a mid and large corporate business development team across South Wales.
He has extensive experience in property investment, development, and supporting international and trading organisations of all sizes.
Stuart Law, CEO of Assetz Capital says: "At Assetz Capital a key focus for 2017 and beyond revolves around us having a strong regional relationship director network. This allows us to
Eden L Rohrer has joined the New York office of K&L Gates as a partner in the investment management, hedge funds and alternative investments practice.
She joins K&L Gates from Crowell & Moring.
Rohrer (pictured) concentrates her practice on broker-dealer regulatory, enforcement, and litigation matters, including Self Regulatory Organisation (SRO) membership, employment, research, soft dollar arrangements, chaperoning of foreign broker-dealers, social media, anti-money laundering rules, securities offerings, and market making and trading issues.
She assists clients with responses to examinations and inquiries in a range of enforcement proceedings before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), FINRA, NYSE, and state
David Sheasby, head of governance and sustainability at Martin Currie, has been appointed to the PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment) ESG Engagements advisory committee.
Martin Currie’s experience in engagement with investee companies, as well as the considerable work Sheasby has done in this area, prompted the PRI’s appointment.
Sheasby says: “This is a great endorsement and reflection of the significant importance that Martin Currie has placed on active ownership and engagement over the years. We have worked increasingly closely with the PRI for some time and I am delighted to be joining its ESG Engagements advisory committee.
“The
Ralf Schremper is to join as a partner in the private equity team at Oakley Capital with a focus on building out Oakley’s presence in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).
He is anticipated to join Oakley in August 2017.
Schremper will join from ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, a German media and digital group, where he was the chief strategy and investment officer and also served as a member of the executive board. In his role, he was directly responsible for the company’s strategic acquisitions in recent years, significantly contributing to the expansion of ProSiebenSat.1’s digital entertainment and commerce
Fund and corporate services provider the Aztec Group has strengthened its real assets team in Luxembourg with the appointment of Stephen Osmont as associate director.
In this new role, Osmont (pictured) will lead the real assets teams in Luxembourg, with overall responsibility for the relationship management activities of those teams.
Osmont will also play an active role in helping to drive the continued growth of the group’s Luxembourg office which has grown from 49 to 152 employees in the last 12 months. He will work closely alongside the business development team to build and enhance relationships with local intermediaries,
Ultimus Fund Solutions, an independent provider of mutual fund, pooled investment and middle office services, has appointed Bill Tomko as an executive vice president, director of fund servicing.
Tomko has nearly 30 years of third party fund administration experience, including time spent servicing mutual funds, hedge funds and private equity funds.
His varied executive experience includes operations, relationship management, strategic planning and sales.
In this new role at Ultimus, Tomko will be responsible for fund accounting, financial administration, transfer agency, new client implementations and relationship management.
Gary Tenkman (pictured), COO and managing director of Ultimus, says: “I
GK Strategy and sister digital agency onefourzero have appointed Justin Ash as chairman.
Ash takes up his new part-time position this week.
He was previously chief executive officer of Oasis Dental Care, where he grew the business to become the largest private dental provider in the UK, culminating in its sale in November 2016 from European private equity house Bridgepoint to Bupa for GBP835 million.
Prior to Oasis Dental Group, Ash was UK managing director of Lloyds Pharmacy.
The appointment comes after a strong financial year for GK and onefourzero, which saw the businesses grow in excess
Stephen Delaney has been made a partner of Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm.
At the same time, Antonia Cheong and Guy Yarrow have been promoted to investment director.
Delaney leads Bowmark’s technology practice and, most recently, led the firm’s investment in Node4, the fast-growing IT solutions provider. He joined Bowmark in 2014 from Darwin Private Equity.
Cheong joined Bowmark from DC Advisory in 2014 and is a member of the firm’s business services and healthcare teams. She has been involved in a number of Bowmark’s investments, and she sits on the board of PSH, one of the
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is continuing the expansion of its finance and private equity practices with the addition of Joshua Samis, who joins as partner in the firm’s Chicago office.
Samis, previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, has represented many of the country’s leading and most sophisticated private equity sponsors, private and public companies and commercial lending institutions.
He has broad experience in structuring and negotiating domestic and cross-border leveraged buyouts, secured and unsecured financing transactions, recapitalisations and loan workouts and restructurings, including debtor-in-possession financings.
“Josh is a highly respected finance lawyer with extensive
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