Michel Péretié joined the management of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking. He will work alongside Jean-Pierre Mustier, chief executive of SG CIB, and will take over management of the division in the third quarter. He will also join the executive committee of Société Générale SA.

Péretié began his career at Banque Paribas in 1980, where he created its derivatives group. He later joined Bear, Stearns & Co., where he last served as a board member.

Credit Suisse Group said a team of relationship managers from Citigroup Global Wealth Management joined the New York office of Private Banking USA. The team is led by managing directors Richard Zinman and Anthony Dertouzos and will report to Matthew Gorman, head of the New York office. The group will cover risk management, trust and estate and transfer planning, asset management and customized lending.

New York's CastleOak Securities LP tapped Rufus Jones Jr. for its equity sales and trading group as managing director, equity capital markets. Jones joins CastleOak from Lehman Brothers Inc., where he was a vice president. Prior to that, he was a VP for SunTrust Bank and an associate for Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Piper Jaffray & Co. expanded its equity sales and trading team in Boston, hiring Stephen Yamane as a managing director. Yamane comes in from Cowen and Co. LLC, where he was managing director of equity sales and trading.

Joseph Kringdon was named executive vice president and head of U.S. retail distribution at Pioneer Investments. Kringdon was a managing director at Putnam Investments, which he joined in 1999.

Investment bank Seabury Group LLC tapped Claude-Henri Hereus as a vice president in its aerospace division. Hereus was vice president for procurement strategy at Airbus SAS.

Alvarez & Marsal formed a financial institutions advisory services group. Samuel Golden, a former senior official with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, joins the firm as a managing director and head of the new group.

Strategic advisory firm LECG LLC added Ezra Zask to its securities practice as a director in New York. He was founder and manager of hedge fund Ezra Zask Associates LLC. Zask was previously a managing director with Azimuth Alternative Assets LLC.

King & Spalding LLP added six partners from Vinson & Elkins LLP to its healthcare practice. Dennis Barry, Christopher Keough and Joseph Lynch arrive in Washington, and Gary Eiland, Dennis Dunn and Nancy LeGros reside in Houston.

Joining the partners are counsel Stephanie Webster and associates J. Harold Richards, Robert Waters, Lori Mihalich and Daniel Hettich in Washington. Associates Adam Robison and Christina Gonzalez join the healthcare practice in Houston.

New York-based litigator Walter Ricciardi will join Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP as a partner in its securities litigation and white collar crime and regulatory defense practices. Ricciardi joins Paul Weiss from the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he was deputy director of the division of enforcement. Before the SEC, he spent 20 years with Coopers & Lybrand and its successor, PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Workplace law firm Jackson Lewis LLP opened an office in Albuquerque, N.M. Danny Jarrett will serve as managing partner in the firm's 37th office. Joining as of counsel are George Cherpelis and James Cook, and associate Samantha Jarrett. All four practiced at Noeding & Jarrett PC.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP said Gregory Patti Jr. will join the firm as a partner in its corporate department in New York. Patti, a private equity lawyer specializing in healthcare and telecom, comes from O'Melveny & Myers LLP.

Walter D. Kelley Jr., formerly U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, joined Jones Day's Washington office as a partner in the trial practice. Prior to taking the bench, Kelley was in private practice for 23 years, handling commercial, antitrust and intellectual property litigation.

Theodore Shaw, past director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, joined Fulbright & Jaworski LLP's New York office as of counsel. Shaw spent more than 20 years with the LDF..

Intellectual property firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP brought in Katherine White as special counsel in San Diego. White will practice in the electronics and software practice group. She counsels on intellectual property, specializing in strategic patent portfolio development, patent prosecution and IP due diligence.

Previously, White was vice president, senior counsel for IP at NextWave Broadband Inc. She was also a principal at Enterprise Partners Venture Capital.