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Law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has hired telecommunications specialist Gordon Moir from niche international practice Webb Henderson.
Moir becomes a partner in the commercial disputes, regulation and markets team, working out of the firm’s London and Edinburgh offices, and at the offices of overseas clients. He brings with him a team of three.
In 2011, Moir set up the London operation of Australasian firm Webb Henderson. Clients included BT, Sky, Nominet and AT&T.
Highly regarded in the telecoms sector, Moir has previously worked in private practice at McGrigors and Ashurst and in-house as general counsel at BT Retail,
Pelican Point Capital Partners has appointed Marvin Miller as general counsel and managing director.
“Marvin brings with him extensive legal experience in structured finance/business transactions that will be extremely accretive to the team at Pelican for its investment activities and portfolio management,” says Ike Suri, co-CEO and co-founder.
Most recently, Miller was a corporate partner in the New York office of Winston & Strawn.
Miller has experience representing domestic and international corporate and financial institutions, hedge funds, and governmental entities in connection with a range of financing and commercial transactions, including second lien and mezzanine financings, private placements (unsecured
Perella Weinberg Partners has appointed Stefan Green as a partner in the firm’s advisory business.
Green will focus on providing strategic and financial advice to technology, media and telecommunications companies, and he will have broader responsibility for the San Francisco office, where he will be based.
Green comes to Perella Weinberg Partners following a 19 year career at Goldman Sachs. Named a partner in 2002, Green held a number of leadership positions, including chief operating officer and head of investment banking services for the EMEA region and head of the financial sponsors group, EMEA. In these roles, Green advised
Goldbridge Capital Partners, an asset management boutique focused exclusively on European sub-investment grade credit, has appointed Neal Kutner as head of business development.
Kutner was most recently managing director at BNY Mellon Asset Management where he was responsible for fundraising activities across Switzerland and Austria and was based in Switzerland.
Gina Germano, managing partner and chief investment officer of Goldbridge Capital Partners, says: “We believe Neal’s proven track record of fundraising and the strength of his longstanding client relationships will make a significant contribution to the growth of our business as the current European sub-investment grade environment continues to
State Street Corporation has appointed Bob Keogh as head of alternative investment solutions (AIS) for the Asia Pacific region.
Based in Hong Kong, Keogh will assume responsibility for the hedge fund, private equity and real estate businesses in Asia Pacific.
He has more than two decades of experience in financial services, the last 14 of which have been in the hedge fund industry. He was previously senior managing director for State Street’s hedge fund servicing business based in Europe.
Keogh joined State Street in 2012 from Goldman Sachs as part of State Street’s acquisition of Goldman Sachs Administration
Thames Valley and South Coast accountants and business advisers James Cowper has strengthened its corporate finance team with the appointment of Caleb Lewington.
Lewington joined the team in August.
With over eight years’ experience in the corporate finance market, Lewington joined from Serco's commercial finance team where he worked across high profile bids, M&A projects and developing commercial propositions across a range of sectors including defence, transport, healthcare and home affairs business units.
Prior to this, he was manager at Grant Thornton’s corporate finance team in Southampton.
Nick Rogers, partner and head of corporate finance, says:
Dr Thomas Schulz will take over as the head of German law firm Noerr’s London office from 1 September 2014 succeeding Dr Hans Radau.
Radau, who established and built up the office since its opening in 2010, will return to Munich.
The change also involves an increasing focus for Noerr London on advising financial service providers, funds and companies in the regulated industries.
The office has, since its establishment, contributed considerably to the internationalisation of Noerr’s business. Cross-border M&A transactions and restructurings, investors’ projects (in particular in the BRIC states) and banks, insurance companies, financial service providers and
The Business Growth Fund (BGF), established to help the UK’s growing smaller and medium sized businesses, has expanded its Talent Network team in the north with the appointment of Victoria Robson.
Robson joins BGF’s Leeds office and will further develop the firm’s relationships with a broad network of experienced business leaders across the region.
Robson’s role as Talent Network manager will be to cultivate BGF’s relationships with a range of experienced senior business leaders in order to offer BGF investee companies access to a pool of expert talent. BGF has already introduced 48 senior non-executive chairman and directors to
Omnes Capital, a specialist in private equity investment owned by employees, is strengthening its organisation and making adjustments to its governance arrangements to prepare for a new stage in its development.
Benjamin Arm has been named head of the buyout and growth capital business, for which Fabien Prévost previously had direct responsibility.
This business encompasses the 12 investors in the small cap and mid cap buyout and growth capital and mezzanine teams. With EUR540 million under management and two funds currently being raised, they support SMEs with an enterprise value of less than EUR150 million with their expansion and buyout plans.
Mezzanine finance specialist Attract Capital is expanding to the UK.
The firm was founded in New York in the year 2000 to provide middle market companies direct access to the mezzanine lending market.
According to founder David Barnitt, the UK is an under-served mezzanine market, particularly in the lower middle market.
"The UK market has many great up and coming companies in need of capital to get to the next level. We believe our lending platform and structuring expertise will deliver the financing these companies need," Barnitt says. "Mezzanine loans are both flexible and bespoke, and can be
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