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Law firm Winston & Strawn has expanded its M&A, securities, private equity and finance capabilities on the US West Coast with the addition of C. James Levin and Warren Loui, who have joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as partners.
Levin joins Winston from O’Melveny & Myers, where he was a partner in and former co-chair of the firm’s M&A/private equity practices.
Loui comes to Winston from Mayer Brown, where he was a partner in its banking and finance department, and the Los Angeles Finance practice leader.
The duo, who have well-established practices in Southern California, bring a combination of
King & Spalding has appointed corporate lawyer John S. Herbert as a partner in New York.
Herbert will serve as a senior member of the firm’s private equity, mergers and acquisitions and securities practices.
"John is ranked among the top private equity lawyers in New York, and we are pleased to welcome him to our firm," says Raymond E. Baltz, Jr., head of King & Spalding’s corporate practice. "We have built a solid transactional support base in New York with experts in mergers and acquisitions, tax, executive compensation and employee benefits, leveraged and asset-based finance, high-yield debt offerings, real estate,
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has appointed Rodney Cohen as a managing director and head of the new US equity opportunity team.
The group will draw upon Carlyle’s geographic, product and sector resources to make control, joint-control and structured minority investments of up to USD150m across a range of industries and opportunities, including, smaller buyouts, corporate divestitures, corporate partnerships and platform build-ups.
Cohen comes to Carlyle from Pegasus Capital Advisors, a middle-market investment firm with approximately USD2bn of assets under management, where he was a co-managing partner.
Reporting to Carlyle chief investment officer William E. Conway, Jr., Cohen is
Sheryl Schwartz, formerly a managing director at TIAA-CREF, has joined Perseus as a senior managing director working in its New York office.
Schwartz will work on mezzanine debt, private equity investments and investor relations.
Schwartz joined TIAA in 1988 and held a variety of positions there. She worked three years investing in corporate private placements, two years trading secondary private placements and four years investing in mortgage and asset-backed securities.
Beginning in 1997, Schwartz established the TIAA alternative investment programme and built a portfolio of approximately USD13bn of commitments in alternative investments including investments in buyouts, venture capital, distressed and
Law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel has expanded its private equity practice with the addition of James J. Moriarty and Russell J. Pinilis as partners in the firm’s New York office.
Prior to joining Kramer Levin, Moriarty and Pinilis were partners at O’Melveny & Myers.
Moriarty (pictured) represents a number of middle market private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of industries and transactions, including acquisition and sale transactions, leveraged buyouts, restructurings, recapitalisations, management equity arrangements and mezzanine and growth equity financings.
Pinilis is a tax and fund formation attorney and has worked extensively with
Orchid Cellmark and Accipiter Capital Management have reached an agreement in connection with the nomination of candidates for election to Orchid Cellmark’s board of directors.
Pursuant to the agreement, Accipiter will nominate two individuals for election to the Orchid Cellmark board.
Such nominees will serve as class I directors of the company with three-year terms ending in 2013.
Orchid Cellmark’s 2010 annual meeting of stockholders is scheduled for 9 November 2010.
Subsequent to the 2010 annual meeting, Orchid Cellmark will engage a consultant to conduct a board compensation study and will implement compensation and stock ownership guidelines requiring all board
James Fenner has been named president and chief executive for GE Capital’s leveraged finance business, subject to regulatory approval.
Fenner will be responsible for leading and arranging mid market transactions and building close links with commercial partners such as Mubadala GE Capital and Ares Capital.
He replaces Thomas Greco, who has left to pursue opportunities outside of GE.
The position reports into Rich Laxer, EMEA president and chief executive for GE Capital.
“James is very highly-regarded in the financial industry, with over 20 years banking experience, and his leadership and customer focus will be invaluable as we continue to build
Brookfield Asset Management has appointed Chris Harris as client relations manager for the private funds group.
Harris will be responsible for Brookfield’s relationships with investors in the western US.
Prior to his appointment, Harris served a director in the private placement team at Macquarie Capital for three years, working on development of new funds and overseeing client investments in real estate, private equity and infrastructure.
Before that, he spent two years as director of institutional marketing at Citi Property Investors.
“We are delighted to welcome Chris as a senior member of our global relationship team,” says Leo van den Thillart,
John DelPonti has joined the valuation and financial risk management practice of Navigant Capital Advisors, a wholly owned subsidiary of Navigant Consulting, as a managing director in the Washington, DC office.
DelPonti will focus on providing strategy, operations and risk management services to mortgage banking clients.
“The mortgage industry is undergoing a unique transformation, and our clients are demanding insight into how to best position their business to address this change,” says Richard Hitt, managing director and leader of Navigant Capital Advisors’ valuation and financial risk management practice. “John’s combination of mortgage strategy, valuation, risk management, transaction and operational experience
Mitchell Hartley Advisers, an independent investment banking advisory firm, has appointed Jeffrey C. Bechtel as managing member.
Bechtel joins as the firm’s third principal, along with Keith Mitchell and Roger Hartley.
Previously, Bechtel was senior vice president at Jefferies’ financial institutions group, leading the firm’s asset management investment banking efforts in the western US. Before that he was a senior banker at Putnam Lovell NBF, which he joined in 2002.
Earlier, Bechtel spent five years at Bank One, where he advised clients on buy-side and sell-side transactions within the M&A and corporate finance advisory groups.
“We’re delighted to welcome Jeff
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