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Ogier has appointed David Cooney and Bradley Kruger as Partners in the Cayman office and Michael Killourhy (pictured) as a Partner in the BVI office.
In addition, Partner Simon Schilder has joined the Jersey Funds team and five Senior Associates have been promoted to Managing Associate across the BVI, Cayman, Guernsey and Luxembourg offices.
David Cooney has been with Ogier since 2012 having moved from the UK, where he was previously a Partner at Gorvins. His practice focuses primarily on Private Clients and he also manages a number of key funds related clients and transactions.
David received his Bachelor of
Jim Dondero, Co-Founder and President of Highland Capital Management, has been named Senior Portfolio Manager of the firm's Energy MLP Fund, effective 1 February, 2015.
Dondero joins Jon Poglitsch, CFA and Matthew Gray, CFA as lead managers of the fund. Dondero, Poglitsch and Gray will be responsible for all of the investment decisions of the fund.
“Dislocation in the energy sector has caused unwarranted disruptions in the MLP space,” says Dondero. “Jon and Matthew have done a fantastic job managing the fund having achieved double digit returns since the fund's inception and I am excited to join them. We expect
Advent Capital Management has appointed Matthew Dundon, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager to its alternative investment strategies team.
Dundon will support and collaborate with Advent’s current portfolio managers to identify unique investment ideas across corporate capital structures globally.
“We’re excited to welcome Matthew to Advent and look forward to the complementary skills he’ll bring as we continue to grow, diversify and opportunistically enhance our investment teams,” says Tracy Maitland, President and Chief Investment Officer of Advent. “The volatility in global markets is creating increased investment opportunities and we are adding investment talent to be able to vet more investment ideas
CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre has appointed four new partners – Alexandre Delhaye, Caroline Froger-Michon, Frédéric Gerner and Claire Vannini.
The firm now has 103 partners out of a total of 380 lawyers.
Alexandre Delhaye, 40, joined CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre’s Corporate/M&A department in 2001 after working in the M&A department at Gide Loyrette Nouel. Specialising in corporate law and Corporate/M&A, he handles all matters relating to national and transnational transactional operations (M&A, joint ventures, private equity, management packages), complex group restructuring and reorganisation projects, governance, management personnel and shareholder relations. He is a graduate of ESCEM (1995)
Law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton announced has appointed Peter Olds, former legal director at Actis, as counsel in the firms’ London office.
Olds joined Actis, a private equity firm investing exclusively in Africa, Asia and Latin America, in 2009. Peter was previously a senior associate in Clifford Chance’s Private Funds Group, where he specialised in private equity, real estate and infrastructure fundraising. Prior to that, he was a senior associate at Freehills in Sydney. Peter has a Bachelor of Law with first class honours and a Bachelor of Arts with distinction from the University of Technology, Sydney.
“We
AXON Partners, a placement agent for private equity and real estate funds and advisor on secondary transactions, has appointed Mark Engler as a partner in the firm’s office in Zug, Switzerland.
Englert was previously Portfolio Manager – Private Assets at Unigestion, a Geneva‐headquartered asset manager with USD 17 billion of assets under management. At Unigestion, Mark led client services in the DACH region and the Nordics. His responsibilities included sourcing mandate and fund investors as well as leading sales efforts and new product proposals in the field of private assets. Prior to working at Unigestion, Mark spent more than eight
European private equity firm Cinven has announced the promotion of three Partners.
Maxim Crewe joined Cinven in 2006 and is a member of the Financial Services sector team. He has been involved in a number of transactions including Avolon, Guardian Financial Services and Partnership. Previously he worked at Citigroup in corporate finance within the European Retail and Consumer Group. Maxim has an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.
Pontus Petterson joined Cinven in 2011 and is a member of the Nordic regional team and Industrials sector team. He has been involved in several transactions including CeramTec
Fund governance firm DMS Offshore Investment Services (DMS) has appointed Westley Chapman as a Director.
Chapman will serve on the boards of investment funds, providing independent oversight on governance and compliance matters. He will also function as Director, Operational Due Diligence and will be based in New York.
As even more investors continue increasing allocations to private funds, investors and managers are spending more time on operational due diligence reviews, plus facing evaluating even more investment opportunities with less available resources.
DMS Operational Due Diligence aims to ease this burden and part of Chapman's role is to advise investors on
Aequitas Capital Partners (ACP), a division of Aequitas Capital's wealth management platform, has hired four new regional directors.
"For ACP, 2014 was a year of notable accomplishments, including the successful launch of our unit, followed by an overwhelming response from the growth-oriented RIA marketplace. To date, 43 firms have adopted our platform and become members of our network, with three qualifiers to our exclusive, invitation-only Quarter Club," says Bob Jesenik, Aequitas CEO.
"That growth is a testament to how much our services resonate among RIAs. We have now doubled our staff to provide additional support and resources to RIAs and
Evercore has appointed Jay Chandler as a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s Equity Capital Markets Group based in New York.
Chandler was most recently Head of Capital Markets for Liquidnet, one of the world’s leading equity block trading networks. Prior to Liquidnet, he spent 26 years with Merrill Lynch and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. At Merrill Lynch, Chandler spent over 20 years in its Equity Capital Markets department and served as Head of Global Equity Syndicate during his last 7 years in the group. Thereafter, he managed Merrill Lynch’s and subsequently Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Americas Research
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