Edward Greene, general counsel of Citigroup Inc.'s institutional clients group, will return to Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in February. He joined Citi in 2004. Before joining Cleary Gottlieb in 1982, Greene served as both director of the division of corporation finance and general counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Greene will reside in New York and focus on securities, corporate governance, regulatory, financial services reform and other corporate law matters.

Thomas Weisel Partners Group Inc. hired Mark Dempster as a managing director in investment banking focused on healthcare, Steven Satov as a managing director in institutional sales and Kevin Tscherne as a director in trading covering healthcare. Dempster and Tscherne are in New York, while Satov resides in Toronto.

Dempster worked at Banc of America Securities LLC for five years and was a vice president in the mergers and acquisition group at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. Satov was most recently a director of institutional equity sales at Merrill Lynch Canada. He was previously a vice president at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Tscherne was head of healthcare sector trading at Citigroup Inc. Before that, he helped expand Bank of America Corp.'s healthcare trading platform and J.P. Morgan Securities' sector trading effort.

On Jan. 20, Stuart Davies will become a managing director and chief investment officer at Ramius Fund of Funds Group LLC. He will replace Thomas Strauss, who will remain CEO and a member of the investment management committee. Davies will join the committee as well.

Davies was most recently a managing director and global head of investments at Ivy Asset Management Corp. in New York. Davies joined Ivy in 2005 as a managing director in the London office, where he was head of investments for Europe and Asia.

Investment banking and alternative asset management firm JMP Group Inc. said Alex Gauna, Peter Martin and Allan Rimland have joined its broker-dealer subsidiary, JMP Securities LLC, as managing directors.

Gauna and Martin are San Francisco-based equity research analysts, focused on the semiconductor industry and the healthcare services and healthcare real estate industries, respectively. Rimland, in New York, is co-head of the healthcare services investment banking practice.

Gauna was an executive director and senior research analyst at UBS and worked at Banc of America Securities LLC and Prudential Securities Inc. (now Pruco Securities LLC). Martin was a portfolio manager at hedge fund Matthes Capital. He has worked at Jefferies & Co., Montgomery Securities LLC and Franklin Templeton Investments. Rimland worked at Wachovia Capital Markets, where he led the healthcare services investment banking effort. Before that, he worked at BofA Securities, Morgan Stanley, NatWest Markets Group Inc. and Smith Barney.

Ray Groves was appointed ombudsman for Standard & Poor's, effective Feb. 16. He will report outside of the S&P business units to Harold McGraw III, chairman, president and CEO of McGraw-Hill Cos., S&P's parent company.

Groves was with Ernst & Young for 37 years, serving as chairman and chief executive for the last 17 years before retiring in 1994. He was chairman of Legg Mason Merchant Banking Inc. from 1995 to 2001. He served as president, chairman and senior adviser of Marsh Inc. from 2001 to 2005.

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP hired David Perlman for its Washington office as a partner in the energy practice. Perlman was chief counsel to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s commodities business in New York.

At Lehman, he helped establish the Financial Institutions Energy Group, an association of investment and commercial banks. Perlman also served for two years as senior legal adviser at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Before that, he was counsel to Constellation Energy Group Inc. for 18 years.

Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s chief intellectual property counsel, John Squires, joined Chadbourne & Parke LLP as a partner in New York. Squires founded the patent practice at Goldman Sachs nine years ago. Before Goldman, Squires was general counsel and chief IP counsel for Honeywell Inc. He also practiced at Rogers & Wells LLP and was an associate focusing on large-scale patent infringement litigation and technology matters for Morgan & Finnegan LLP.

Greenberg Traurig LLP recruited Jeffrey Fried as a shareholder in its corporate and securities group, advising on project finance matters. Fried joins from Financial Guaranty Insurance Co., where he was a senior managing director and business leader of its national public finance practice. He had practiced at Greenberg Traurig as an associate in New York and Miami from 1991 to 1996.

San Francisco-based Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin PC appointed Richard Holdrup as chief financial officer. He was CFO of Heller Ehrman LLP. Before Heller, Holdrup was CFO of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP from 2002 to 2006. He also has worked for S.C. Johnson & Son Inc.

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