In London, J.P. Morgan Private Bank drafted Darren McDermott for its U.K. domestic private banking team. McDermott was an associate director at Bear, Stearns & Co.'s private client services group in London. He has also worked at Credit Suisse Group and Merrill Lynch & Co.

Recently, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. said Bear Stearns' Asia CEO was joining the firm to run its sovereign wealth group. John Moore joined Bear in 2001 as global head of agency capital markets in New York.

Jefferies & Co. hired Robert Harteveldt as chairman of fixed income and a member of its executive committee, based in Stamford, Conn. Harteveldt spent more than 24 years at Bear Stearns Cos., where he was most recently a senior managing director and head of high yield, distressed and loan sales. He was also a member of the president's advisory council and the fixed-income management committee.

Pali Capital Inc., the U.S. broker-dealer subsidiary of Pali Holdings Inc., enlisted Joseph Schenk as chief operating officer. Earlier, Schenk was executive vice president and CFO of Jefferies Group Inc.

Sixteen-year Morgan Stanley veteran Peregrine de Broadbent replaced Schenk as CFO at Jefferies.

Technology venture capital firm Valhalla Partners hired Saj Cherian as a principal and Leon Zilber as a research analyst. Previously, Cherian was a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. Zilber was a senior analyst at AllianceBernstein LP.

Advent Venture Partners appointed Mike Chalfen as a general partner on its technology team. Chalfen was previously at Apax Partners Worldwide LLP, where he was a partner leading investments in the digital media, software and services sectors in Europe and Israel.

Newmark Knight Frank expanded its Midwest retail division, adding William Selonick as a managing director and Jason Jarchow as an associate. Selonick was a principal with Baum Realty Group LLC, while Jarchow worked at Chicago-based Beitler Properties LLC.

Duane Morris LLP named Chicago partners David Kaufman and Brian Kerwin vice chairs of its 130-lawyer global corporate practice group. Partner John Horstmann chairs the group.

In addition, the firm named Louis Jameson managing partner of its Atlanta office. Jameson is also head of the intellectual property litigation division of the trial practice group.

Jameson succeeds partner Charles Whitney, who held the role for more than eight years. Whitney, who serves on the five-member firmwide executive committee, will continue to lead the nuclear energy practice group.

On Oct. 1, Pascale Lagesse will join Bredin Prat as a partner covering employment law, collective bargaining, labor relations and restructurings. She headed the labor law group in the Paris office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer since 2000.

McKool Smith PC hired litigator Gayle Klein as a principal in New York. Klein covers intellectual property disputes, complex business litigation and internal investigations. Previously, she was a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

Steven Hanle and Jennifer Trusso joined the Orange County, Calif., office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as partners in the intellectual property practice group. Both were partners at Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth.

Bennett Jones LLP welcomed Ernest Belyea to its partnership in Toronto. Belyea's corporate commercial practice focuses on the energy sector. He joins from the Ontario Power Authority, where he was senior corporate counsel.

In New York, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP elected Pamela Bruzzese-Szczygiel, corporate and banking; and Jacob Frohman, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate and securities, as partners. Bankruptcy lawyer Robert LeHane was named special counsel. In Chicago, corporate and finance attorney Thomas Ferguson became a partner.

Commercial litigator Lauri Mazzuchetti is now a partner in Parsippany, N.J.; and Jeffrey Kauffman, advertising, became special counsel in Washington.

Bryan Cave LLP promoted Melissa Rawlins from associate to counsel. Rawlins practices from Los Angeles in the private client and tax areas.

Legal search firm Major, Lindsey & Africa hired Michael Sachs as a managing director in the associate practice group in Chicago. Sachs is former in-house media counsel for NBC Universal Inc. Earlier, Sachs spent more than six years as a litigation and intellectual property associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP.