Quadrangle Group LLC added Howard Margolis, Tushar Shah and Sigurd Strack to Quadrangle Asset Management. Margolis will serve as director of real assets for QAM, Shah will be director of public markets and Strack becomes a director of private equity investments. All three are also principals at Quadrangle Group and will report to Alice Ruth, chief investment officer for QAM.

Margolis (pictured) was most recently a managing director of Black Creek Capital. Before that he worked at Government of Singapore Investment Corp.'s GIC Real Estate and UBS. Shah was a principal at Perella Weinberg Partners LP and was previously director of public markets investments at University of Texas Investment Management Co.

Strack co-founded Headlands Capital Management, an asset management firm focused on PE-style investing in small-cap public companies. He also worked at Coliseum Capital Advisors and, from 1994 to 2003, was at McKinsey & Co. as a partner in the global PE practice.

Barclays Capital appointed David Lau as a managing director for investment banking in China. He's the main coverage banker for corporates in China, focusing on telecom, media and technology, as well as general industrials. Based in Hong Kong, he will report to Chris Hui, head of investment banking for China-Hong Kong. Lau spent 10 years at Citigroup Inc., the past two as a managing director in TMT focusing on equities and mergers and acquisitions.

Last month, Barclays hired Steven Sun as a managing director, financial institutions group for Asia Pacific in the investment banking division. He reports to Darcy Lai, regional head of investment banking, and to Jeff Weiss, global head of financial institutions. Sun joined from UBS Investment Bank, where he spent nine years as a managing director and joint head covering Asian financial institutions, focusing on strategic transactions and equity financing. Before that, he worked at Merrill Lynch & Co., establishing its Asian financial institutions business.

Inter-dealer broker BGC Partners Inc. gained approval from the China Banking Regulatory Commission to create a money brokering joint venture company with China Credit Trust Co. Ltd. The Beijing-based JV, China Credit BGC Money Broking Co. Ltd., will seek final approval later this year. BGC Partners will hold a 33% stake.

In Singapore, Standard Chartered plc hired Samuel Chan for its Asian debt capital markets team, reporting to Jujhar Singh, head of Asia syndicate. Chan arrives from UBS.

Close Brothers Group plc hired François Wohrer as a managing director in Paris, covering the advanced manufacturing, water and waste segments.

Wohrer started his career in 1991 as an investment officer at the World Bank Group in Washington. In 1997, he joined the general industrial group of UBS Investment Bank.

O'Melveny & Myers LLP named Ilan Nissan firmwide co-chair of its mergers and acquisitions practice group. New York-based Nissan focuses on deals involving private equity and hedge funds and will lead alongside London partner Greg Gilbert.

Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced that Charles Fish joined the firm as counsel in the intellectual property practice. Previously, Fish was vice president and chief patent counsel for Time Warner Inc. in New York.

Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s chief IP counsel, John Squires, recently joined Chadbourne as a partner in New York. Squires founded the patent practice at Goldman Sachs nine years ago.

KBW Inc. expanded its mortgage-backed securities trading team, adding Peter Ma to lead efforts in the nonagency market, and Greg Hargraves, who joins as senior agency pass-through trader.

Ma was an executive director on UBS' mortgage-backed securities trading desk. Hargraves spent nearly 20 years in the mortgage business at Merrill Lynch & Co., where he was the senior GNMA trader and responsible for the middle-markets mortgage business.

Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP named Kevin Moss national advisory services practice leader. Moss succeeds David Williams, who was recently named CEO of the firm. Principal J. Donald Fancher will replace Moss.

FBR Capital Markets Corp. promoted Robert MacKenzie to managing director in its energy and natural resources group. Also in that group, Luther Lu was named a vice president. Gabriel Poggi III, real estate, was named an analyst.

The firm is also expanding its research platform to include coverage of the dry bulk and petroleum shipping sectors, which MacKenzie will lead.

Bradley Wolf joined Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP as special counsel in the finance and bankruptcy practice, resident in Los Angeles. Wolf was senior counsel at Wells Fargo & Co. for nine years, responsible for commercial workouts and bankruptcies within the wholesale bank.

Partner Richard Siegal and counsel Paul Collins joined Schiff Hardin LLP's trusts and estates group in New York. Both arrive from Dreier LLP in Stamford, Conn.