Wachovia Corp. hired David Zwiener as chief financial officer, effective Oct. 1. He will report to president and CEO Robert Steel and arrive from Carlyle Group, where he was a managing director in the financial institutions group. Zwiener (pictured) replaces Thomas Wurtz, who announced his departure in July.

Earlier, Zwiener worked at Hartford Financial Services Group, having served as president and chief operating officer of property and casualty operations and executive vice president and chief financial officer. He also worked at ITT Financial Corp., Heller International Corp., Kimberly Clark Corp., Mellon Bank and Ford Motor Co. Wachovia hired Steel, who was undersecretary for domestic finance at the U.S. Department of Treasury, in July. Last week, its brokerage arm landed 26-year Bear Stearns Cos. veteran Craig Overlander as managing director and global head of fixed income.

Alternative asset manager GLG Partners Inc. hired Andrew Knott for its London office as a portfolio manager, responsible for creating a new global energy product and managing its global energy investments. He will report to GLG's co-founder and senior investment manager, Pierre Lagrange. Knott joins GLG from Merrill Lynch & Co., where he ran the European oil and gas exploration and production equity research team. He also worked at Dresdner Kleinwort and KPMG.

Deutsche Bank AG took on three senior corporate finance executives from UBS. Heidi Yang, former head of Greater China corporate finance at UBS, joins as a managing director and head of the corporate advisory group in Asia. Danny Lee and Johnson Ngie join as directors in the Asian corporate advisory group. DB recently named Tiina Lee as European head of financial institution capital origination. Lee was previously head of the DCM financial institutions group in northern Europe.

In London, Franklin Templeton Investments made David Smart global head of sovereign funds and supranationals. He had been executive vice president of Franklin Templeton Institutional and head of the Europe, Middle East and Africa sales region. Smart joined Fiduciary Trust International in 1988.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. appointed Yoshiharu Fukuhara as a senior adviser in Japan. Since 2001, he has been honorary chairman of Shiseido Co. Ltd., Japan's leading manufacturer of luxury cosmetics, make-up, skin care and fragrances.

Fukuhara, grandson of Shiseido founder, Arinobu Fukuhara, joined Shiseido in 1953. Separately, KKR brought in Simon Hipperson to the firm's infrastructure investment team in London. Hipperson is the former president and CEO of Skanska Infrastructure Development.

Evercore Partners Inc. announced it will be a founding member of an investor group that includes BlackRock Inc. co-founder and former president Ralph Schlosstein and Stone Point Capital, among others, in launching HighView Investment Group. HighView, led by Schlosstein, is an asset management firm that will seek to acquire minority interests in independent alternative asset managers with more than $2 billion in assets under management.

Roger Altman, chairman and CEO of Evercore, will join HighView's board.

Hiscock & Barclay LLP opened a New York office and added seven attorneys to cover intellectual property and technology, IP litigation, corporate, real estate, labor and employment, commercial litigation and public finance. Mark Peroff, Darren Saunders and Keith Danish hail from K&L Gates. Rick Fischbein and Robert Lanza joined from Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP, and Samuel Watkins joined from Greenberg Traurig LLP.

Justin Driscoll will also practice from New York. He joined the firm last year and previously was senior vice president and general counsel of the New York State Housing Finance Agency and the State of New York Mortgage Agency. Danish joins the firm as of counsel; the rest are partners. The firm's managing partner, John Langan, will also spend time at the new office.

Dechert LLP tapped Henry Wang as managing partner of its new Beijing office. Prior to returning to private practice in 2006, Wang was general counsel of the Chinese-U.S. joint venture Shanghai General Motors Co. Ltd.

McCarter & English LLP announced that Theodore Grannatt joined its Boston office as a partner in the corporate, securities and financial institutions group. Grannatt comes in from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo PC.

Klaus Kunze joined DLA Piper's litigation practice as a senior adviser in New York. Kunze, former general counsel of Hannover Re Group, most recently served as managing director of Depfa Bank plc in New York.

In Palo Alto, Calif., Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC said partner Elizabeth Peterson joined its litigation department. A former assistant U.S. attorney for the district of Minnesota, Peterson will focus on white collar criminal defense, corporate internal investigations and complex commercial civil litigation. Prior to Wilson Sonsini, she worked at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.