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by Baz Hiralal
Larry Slaughter, a 26-year JPMorgan Chase & Co. veteran, will join Lazard as a managing director and vice chairman of investment banking on June 3. Slaughter was JPM's co-head of North American investment banking, based in New York and was previously in London as head of European investment banking corporates, co-head of European mergers and acquisitions and head of European financial sponsors. He joined JPMorgan in 1987 and went to New York in 2011.
Carlyle Group enlisted a six-person international energy investment team, led by Marcel van Poecke. In 1985, he worked at Calpam International Petroleum Co. BV, where he had been commercial director from 1990 to 1992. Van Poecke was then a managing director of Vanol Group, which operated in the storage, trading and marketing of crude oil and refined products. In May 1993, van Poecke was part of a management buyout of Vanol, creating Petroplus Holdings AG, which became one of Europe's biggest refiners. He left the company shortly after it listed on the Zurich stock exchange in November 2006. Petroplus filed for bankruptcy last year after lenders froze a $1.1 billion revolver. Later, he founded AtlasInvest, which mainly invests in conventional oil and gas.
Joining van Poecke are operating executive Paddy Spink and managing directors Joost Droege and Joao Saraiva e Silva.
Deutsche Bank AG tapped Young Kim as a managing director in equity capital markets, power and energy. Based in New York, he will report to Jeff Bunzel, head of ECM, Americas. Kim spent 13 years at UBS, most recently as a managing director in the ECM group focused on offerings in the energy and utilities sector.
UBS Global Asset Management named Trevor Cooke as head of global real estate, Asia Pacific, effective May 27. Cooke hails from institutional investment manager Queensland Investment Corp., where he was managing director, strategy and international business development. He also spent four years at AMP Capital Brookfield leading corporate strategy.
Goldman, Sachs & Co. named Julian Salisbury as head of global special situations, replacing Jason Brown, who is retiring after 13 years at GS. Salisbury will relocate to New York from London, where he heads special situations group for Europe, which he helped found in 2003. He joined the firm in 1998 was named a partner in 2008.
Heartland Advisors named Robert Sharpe a co-portfolio manager of the Heartland International Value Fund. Sharpe has been international equities portfolio manager at the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio since 2000, where he managed a $2 billion portfolio. He also led the international equities department as director, managing an $8.3 billion internal allocation.
Ulmer & Berne LLP welcomed trademark attorney Thomas Williams to its intellectual property and technology practice as a partner in Chicago. Williams arrives from Winston & Strawn LLP.
Jones Day said Chaka Patterson joined the firm's Chicago office as a partner in the business and tort litigation practice. He was previously of counsel with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Before Skadden, Patterson was associate general counsel at Exelon Corp. and had been its vice president/treasurer and vice president of investor relations. Earlier, he was assistant attorney general and chief of the special litigation bureau in the Illinois Attorney General's Office.
Intel Corp. elected Brian Krzanich as CEO, succeeding Paul S. Otellini, effective May 16. Renée James will be president. Krzanich, who joined Intel in 1982, has been chief operating officer since January 2012. Otellini was CEO since 2005 when he suddenly announced in November his intent to retire. The world's largest semiconductor chip maker has struggled to relive the days before the dot-com bust when its stock price peaked in the mid-$70s. The road has been harder of late since it failed to capitalize on market demand for tablets and smartphones while focusing on PCs.
Surprising investors, Royal Dutch Shell plc chief executive Peter Voser, 54, said in a message to employees he will retire in the first half of 2014 and cited the need for "a change in my lifestyle" as he looks to spend more time with family. He has been CEO since July 2009 and pushing the company into natural gas. The oil and gas explorer, which beat Wall Street earnings expectations for the first quarter, will consider internal and external candidates to replace Voser. He joined Shell in 1982 and was chief financial officer and an executive director of Royal Dutch Shell since 2004.
Clippings from the next column:
-- Twitter Inc. hires Morgan Stanley's Cynthia Gaylor to head corporate development.
-- UBS taps Jim Voorheis for specialty finance.
Surprising investors, Royal Dutch Shell plc chief executive Peter Voser, 54, said he will retire in the first half of 2014; cites need for "a change in my lifestyle."
