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Tikehau IM has appointed Gen Oba as director of marketing and international development.
Oba (pictured) will be responsible for the development of Tikehau IM’s marketing strategy and the development of the firm’s relationship with large international clients.
Oba joins Tikehau Capital after 18 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he managed and developed relationships with key international clients, executed major strategic and capital market transactions, and last served as managing director of investment banking.
Gen started his career 1996 at Rothschild in Paris and then at BNP Paribas in New York.
Law firm Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) has appointed Dennis Jenkins, a financial restructuring lawyer with 20 years of experience, as a partner in the firm’s New York-headquartered business restructuring and insolvency group.
Jenkins, who comes to the firm from WilmerHale, is the fourth new business restructuring and insolvency partner to join Morrison & Foerster over the last year, following the arrival of Jonathan Levine in New York, and Peter Declercq and Sonya Van de Graaff in London.
“I am pleased to welcome Dennis to our growing global restructuring team,” says Brett Miller, managing partner of the New York office
Greenstone Equity Partners, a fund placement firm based in the Middle East, has hired Sean Kearney as chief operating officer and Khalid Alkelabi as managing director, investor relationships.
Kearney (pictured) is an emerging markets banking professional with a 23-year career devoted to identifying and managing risk. His key responsibilities will include operations team leadership, lead-managing the implementation of internal control framework enhancements, running regulatory processes and overseeing strategic change management.
Prior to joining Greenstone, Kearney worked for a decade at UBS in London and Dubai. In his last position with the firm as group COO, Middle East and North
Peter Brown has been appointed head of funds at RBS International to drive the expansion of the bank’s offering to the alternative funds sector.
Brown (pictured) has more than 25 years’ experience in corporate and institutional banking, and most recently headed up the RBS Financial Institutions Group in the UK, which included the RBS funds banking business in London.
Prior to that, he was one of the founding members of the RBS mid-market leveraged finance business, delivering multi-million-pound buyout transactions alongside key private equity sponsors.
Brown now leads a funds banking team that supports more than 1,000 fund
TMF Group has appointed Matthias Pelzer to its alternative investments senior leadership team.
Based in Luxembourg and most recently a commercial director at a local trust and corporate service provider, Pelzer joins TMF Group as senior director, alternative investments.
In his new position, Pelzer is responsible for developing TMF Group’s alternative investments service offering for funds and corporate entities both locally, and at a global level.
Pelzer says: “Having been in the alternative investments industry for years across the entire spectrum of asset management, TMF Group is uniquely positioned to partner with funds on their growth journey. I
Law firm Akin Gump has elected 10 new partners, effective 1 January 2017.
The 10 individuals and their respective office locations are Gerald Brant (New York), Olivia Chung (New York), Olivier De Moor (New York), Sophie Donnithorne-Tait (London), Mahmoud (Mac) Baki Fadlallah (Dubai/Washington, DC), Jaisohn Jungbin Im (New York), Allison P Miller (New York), Daniel L. Moffett (San Antonio), Alexander Specht (New York) and Annisah Iman Um’rani (Washington, DC)
“The lawyers promoted to partner this year are a very talented and diverse group of individuals,” says Akin Gump chairperson Kim Koopersmith (pictured). “I know they will continue to work tirelessly
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has named Jeremy Berry as a partner in the firm’s asset management practice.
Berry (pictured) will be based in New York.
Berry has experience in advising large private equity and hedge fund managers on matters involving private investment funds and complex corporate transactions, with a focus on private equity and hedge fund formation and other alternative investment matters.
"Jeremy brings a wealth of experience representing some of the most prominent private equity and hedge fund sponsors and investment banks, as well as a broad range of other investment management clients," says David Greenwald, chairman of
Private equity firm TA Associates has promoted four investment staff members in the firm’s Boston, London and Mumbai offices, effective 1 January 2017.
“These talented individuals earned their promotions through the quality of their character and, consistent with their roles, demonstrated investment judgment, creativity and work ethic to generate positive investment performance for TA’s investors, as well as other meaningful contributions to the firm,” says Brian J Conway, chairman and managing partner at TA Associates. “We are pleased to recognise their accomplishments thus far and look forward to their continued contributions to TA Associates.”
Birker B Bahnsen has been promoted
Apex Fund Services has appointed Daniel Strachman as head of US business development.
Strachman (pictured) brings more than 20 years of financial services experience having held positions at Cantor Fitzgerald and Morgan Stanley.
He led A&C Advisors for 16 years delivering strategic guidance, counsel and support to investment management companies and institutional investors.
Strachman is the author of nine investment strategy books including “The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management and Getting Started in Hedge Funds”. In his new role at Apex he will drive US growth initiatives and deliver fund management clients with proactive fund administration solutions.
GFM has further strengthened its team with the appointment of Christine Gill (pictured) as Head of Content and Commercial for Private Equity Wire and Property Funds World.
Gill will be responsible for the evolution of client content across Private Equity Wire and Property Funds World and the development of client digital portfolios. She will be leading on the content and production of Private Equity Wire and Property Funds World global events (breakfast briefings, global private equity awards, forums and investor networking events) which are due to be launched later this year.
Gill joins from Aspermont Media where she was instrumental in
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