Evolution Securities Ltd. hired 45 people from the securities business of Dresdner Kleinwort. The hires bring total ESL staff to around 190.

In October, Evolution Group plc bought the 45-member investment management team of Singer & Friedlander Investment Management Ltd. in London.

Carlyle Group hired Nader Sultan (pictured) as a senior adviser to its Middle East North Africa group, focusing on investments in the energy sector.

From 1993 to 2005, Sultan was a nonexecutive board member of Santa Fe International, which merged into Global Santa Fe, a U.S. drilling company. He was also deputy chairman and CEO of Kuwait Petroleum Corp. Sultan is now a senior partner at F+N Consultancy.

Jefferies & Co. added Andrew Peisch to its fixed-income division as a managing director and co-head of mortgage- and asset-backed securities banking and origination. He was a managing director and head of structured credit products banking and origination for the Americas at Deutsche Bank AG, where he spent six years. Peisch co-heads the group alongside Adam Smith. They report to Johan Eveland and William Jennings II, co-heads of the MBS and ABS group.

Earlier, Peisch led the MBS/ABS effort at Prudential Securities Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co.

Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. said James Cassel, vice chairman and co-head of investment banking at its subsidiary, Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., was named vice president of Americas at M&A International Inc. M&A International is a global alliance of 44 mergers and acquisitions advisory and investment banking firms operating in 39 countries. They advise on acquisitions, divestitures, funding and joint ventures.

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• RBC Capital Markets Corp. appointed Deborah Freer as a managing director and COO for the U.S.
• Robert W. Baird & Co. created a clean technology group.
• Bombay Stock Exchange appointed Madhu Kannan as a managing director and CEO.