Julian Horn-Smith joined CVC Capital Partners as a senior adviser, working with the telecom, media and technology team. He was most recently deputy CEO and a board member of Vodafone Group plc. Horn-Smith is a senior adviser to UBS Investment Bank in London and a nonexecutive director at Lloyds Banking Group plc. He joined Vodafone as a marketing executive in 1984.

CIBC World Markets Inc. added two bankers to its financial solutions group.

Eric Price joined as a managing director and head of the New York financial solutions group, reporting to Eric Bélanger, managing director, financial solutions group, fixed income, currencies and distribution. Price was most recently with Merrill Lynch & Co. as head of U.S. institutional foreign exchange sales.

Mark Sweeting will arrive in April as a managing director and head of the European financial solutions group. He was most recently the U.K. and U.S. head of FX sales at UniCredit Group. Sweeting, to work from London, will report to Bélanger as well.

UBS Investment Bank said Don Carson and Marc Goodman have joined its U.S. equities research team as managing directors in the industrials and healthcare sectors, respectively. Carson will cover agricultural, commodity and specialty chemicals. Goodman will cover specialty pharmaceuticals and generics.

Carson arrives from Merrill Lynch & Co. and has worked at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Goodman joins from Credit Suisse Group and also spent 12 years at Morgan Stanley.

Private real estate investment company Rockwood Capital LLC tapped Sharon Miller as a managing director. Miller was most recently global managing director of Trammell Crow Co.'s global services group in New York.

Mission Capital Advisors LLC, a commercial, residential and consumer loan sale adviser, hired Chad Coluccio as a managing director in New York.

Coluccio will handle business development and trading, focusing on the western U.S. Coluccio was a founding partner of Citation Capital Partners Inc., a commercial mortgage brokerage firm focused on debt, mezzanine and joint venture equity placement. Before that, he was an assistant vice president at George Smith Partners Inc. and an asset manager at Citigroup Inc.

Aladdin Capital Holdings LLC recently launched a fund to invest exclusively in debtor-in-possession facilities. Victor Russo and Luke Gosselin serve as global co-heads and co-portfolio managers of the fund.

Russo previously spent 22 years at CIT Group Inc., most recently as president of CIT Business Credit. Gosselin spent the last five years at Goldman, Sachs & Co., most recently as head of private principal finance in New York and London. The pair had worked together at CIT for nearly 10 years.

Greenberg Traurig LLP announced that Gary Ticoll joined its New York office as a shareholder in business reorganization and bankruptcy. Associates Sohyoung Choo, Jack Lundstedt Jr., Denise Penn and Kaitlin Walsh also join. They follow shareholders John Bae, Nathan Haynes and Bruce Zirinsky. All were with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP.

Ashurst LLP is launching a U.S. structured finance practice. Eleven partners will join from McKee Nelson LLP in New York and Washington: William Gray, Douglas Bird, Richard Davis, Scott Faga, Eugene Ferrer, Tom Glushko, Steven Kopp, David Nirenberg, Patrick Quill, Michael Voldstad and Alice Yurke.

Restructuring, consulting, and financial advisory firm AlixPartners LLP has made several hires.

In New York, Susan Markel, chief accountant for the Securities and Exchange Commission's division of enforcement, left the agency in January to become a managing director in the corporate investigations practice of AlixPartners. Markel joined the SEC staff in 1994. Also in New York, strategy and retail experts William Harris and Martin Schumacher arrived as directors. Harris was chief operating officer of ItLinkz Corp. Schumacher was a senior director for Pepsi Bottling Group Inc.

New Yorkers Peter Cosco and Michael Roberts also join as directors. Cosco is director of marketing, Americas, and Roberts is director of strategy and operations. Cosco joined from Major League Gaming Inc., where he was executive vice president of global sales and sponsorships. Roberts was director of operations and technology strategy for Citigroup Inc.

Directors Terry Coleman and Kurt Schnaubelt joined in Chicago and New York, respectively. Coleman was director of special assets for Republic Financial Corp. Schnaubelt was executive vice president, CFO and a board member at Rita Restaurant Corp.

In Detroit, John Bodley is director of corporate accounting, and Dave Rawden, who returned to the firm, is a director in the turnaround and restructuring services practice. Bodley was finance director at TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. in Livonia.

In enterprise improvement, directors Richard Davidson and Steve Follin joined in Chicago and Detroit, respectively. Davidson was global chief information officer for Manpower Inc., while Follin had been a director in Deloitte Consulting LLP's technology integration practice.