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Law firm Winckworth Sherwood has strengthened its Transport and Infrastructure group with two senior partner appointments. At the same time the firm has promoted Senior Associate Eollyn Ives to partner in its Real Estate group
Osborne Clark’s National Head of Planning, Brian Greenwood, joins Winckworth Sherwood’s Transport and Infrastructure group as a partner on 1 April 2015. Robert Banham also joins this group as a partner to work alongside Greenwood.
Greenwood brings considerable depth and expertise in planning, infrastructure and environmental regulatory matters. He has played a significant role in some of the country’s largest and highest profile schemes including
MIK Fund Solutions has opened a Boston office seed with three staff currently. The move follows a recent initiative in Asia that saw the opening of an office in Shanghai.
The Boston office opens up a completely new talent pool for recruiting and hiring for MIK’s global development team. Overall, it will support the firm’s 24×7 global delivery model for software development and client support.
Over 60 multi-billion dollar hedge funds, fund of funds, and private equity funds rely on MIK for sophisticated software solutions for real-time PNL, Data Warehousing, Performance/Attribution, Compliance, Treasury Management, Security Master/Price Management, and Broker Relationship
Law firm Duane Morris has named Brian P Kerwin (pictured) as Chair of the firm’s Corporate Practice Group. Kerwin was among the founders of the Duane Morris Chicago office in 1999.
“Brian is already a known leader in the firm, having served as vice-chair of our Corporate Practice Group,” says John J Soroko, Chairman and CEO of Duane Morris. “He is viewed by his partners as an extraordinarily gifted lawyer and leader and will utilise his vision, skills, personality and energy to guide our active and broad-based Corporate Practice Group as its chair.”
Kerwin has served as a partner
Mesirow Advanced Strategies has named Mark Kulpins as co-chief investment officer (Co-CIO).
Kulpins will work alongside Steve Vogt, who previously served as sole chief investment officer. “We’re pleased to recognise Mark’s valuable contributions to the investment team and to our investment performance,” says Tom Macina, chief executive officer of Mesirow Advanced Strategies, Inc.
In his role as co-CIO, Kulpins will continue to manage the teams responsible for hedge fund research and portfolio management, while Vogt will continue to focus on macro level analysis, strategy allocation, and portfolio research.
“Mark and I have worked together for over a decade, and
bfinance has made two new appointments to its investment teams – Witold Witkiewicz joins as a Director in Private Markets and John Amoasi joins as a Senior Associate in Fixed Income.
Prior to joining bfinance, Witold was a portfolio manager, co-managing the funds of Aeriance Investments, a European real estate debt platform with transactions in excess of EUR1bn. He also managed a discretionary long/short account of global REITs equities which was ranked in the top 10 globally in its category by BarclayHedge. Prior to that he was Head of European Credit at Woodbourne Investment Management, a US based hedge fund
Ogier has appointed three new partners to its team in Jersey and Guernsey – Sara Johns (pictured) and Jamie Bore in Jersey and Christopher Jones in Guernsey, effective from 1 April, bringing Ogier’s total number of partners to 49.
In Jersey Johns, who has more than 20 years’ experience in London and Jersey, has been promoted to partner. She is a Jersey Advocate specialising in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, joint ventures and capital markets transactions involving offshore vehicles. She also leads Ogier’s competition law practice in Jersey.
Most recently Johns, who joined Ogier in 2003, advised AbbVie on
Global valuation and corporate finance advisor Duff & Phelps has promoted eight new managing directors.
“These eight professionals personify Duff & Phelps’ commitment to best-in-class expertise and superior client service,” says Noah Gottdiener, CEO of Duff & Phelps. “I welcome the diversity of skill they bring to our already talented team of managing directors and wish them ongoing success at our firm.”
Ann Gittleman is based in New York and is part of the Disputes and Investigations practice, having joined the firm with the recent Kinetic Partners acquisition. Gittleman acts as a consulting and testifying expert to her clients in
CamberView Partners has appointed Allie Monaco Rutherford as a Principal.
Rutherford brings to her new role at CamberView more than 15 years of experience researching and advising on corporate governance matters. She was most recently a Director at Ernst & Young LLP (EY), leading the firm's corporate governance initiatives in the US.
"Allie has spent most of her career supporting institutional investors in their governance efforts and she has a deep knowledge of how institutional investors think and vote their shares," says Abe Friedman, Managing Partner. "Allie has applied her extensive investor-based perspectives to her recent work at EY advising
Palamon Capital Partners has appointed Mina Mutafchieva as an Associate Principal.
Mutafchieva joins Palamon from McKinsey & Company where she was an Engagement Manager in the firm’s Antwerp office. She was with McKinsey for five years and latterly she specialised in leading strategy development and commercial transformation projects on behalf of companies in the financial services sector. Ms Mutafchieva graduated from the London School of Economics with a First Class Honours in International Relations and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Louis Elson, Managing Partner of Palamon Capital Partners, says: “We are delighted to welcome Mina to Palamon.
iCapital Network, an online marketplace providing qualified investors and their advisors with access to private equity fund managers, has hired Hannah Shaw Grove as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.
Grove brings more than two decades of experience as a marketer, author, media personality, family office consultant, and highly-regarded private wealth strategist, making her the ideal candidate to help bring iCapital Network’s state-of-the-art platform and unique intelligence to the advisor and family office communities.
“We are thrilled that Hannah has joined our executive team as CMO. She is a true thought leader with proven experience creating and implementing innovative
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