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by Baz Hiralal
Avoca Capital Holdings tapped James Hatchley as co-CEO, working from Dublin and London. Hatchley was a managing director at financial advisory firm Freeman & Co. He joined Freeman in 2006 and was chief operating officer of its European operations, which he established the same year. Before that, Hatchley lead coverage of the European financial services sector for Greenhill & Co. in London and, prior to that, was a founding member of the Schroders plc's Pan-European financial services group.
Financial services firm Janney Montgomery Scott LLC hired Morgan Stanley veteran Thomas Graham as a senior vice president, wealth management, in Washington. Graham was with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney for 18 years, most recently as vice president, portfolio management, financial adviser.
The firm said he brings in more than $150 million in client assets.
Clairvue Capital Partners promoted John Waters, based in San Francisco, to vice president. Prior to Clairvue, Waters was an acquisitions associate at Starwood Capital Group. The firm also hired Akash Sharma as an associate, based in New York. Sharma was an investments associate at CIM Group, a real estate and infrastructure investment firm specializing in urban development.
The firm just completed investing Clairvue Capital Partners Fund I, a $200 million fund launched in April 2010.
SFC Associates, a securities and financial litigation consultancy, hired three affiliates: Chi Lee, Robert Maroney and Chester Spatt.
Lee was a senior adviser at Navigant Consulting, where he spent four years. Prior to that, he was executive director and head of asset backed securities derivatives at UBS Securities LLC and a vice president, global structured products, at Banc of America Securities LLC.
Maroney was an assistant vice president in the residential mortgage backed securities ratings group at Moody's Investors Services, which he joined in September 2008 after a stint at WaMu Capital. Before that, Maroney was a vice president in fixed income, currency and commodities at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he worked from March 2005 to February 2007. He also worked at Credit Suisse Group and Standard & Poor's.
Spatt is the Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn professor of finance and director of the center for financial markets at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper school of business in Pittsburgh. Spatt was previously chief economist and director in the office of economic analysis at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Baker & McKenzie opened an office in Johannesburg with partners, lawyers and staff from Dewey & LeBoeuf South Africa.
The team in South Africa includes partners Wildu du Plessis, Scott Brodsky, Chris Moraitis and Morné van der Merwe, and a team of senior lawyers including Astrid Berman, Esme Ferreira, Amelia Heeger, Rajen Ranchhoojee, Muhammad Sader and Mike van Rensburg.
The office comprises 16 lawyers and 15 staff. It focuses on energy, mining and infrastructure, project finance, banking and capital markets, securitization, mergers and acquisitions and private equity.
Litigators Paul Bessette and Michael Biles joined King & Spalding LLP as partners in Austin, Texas, from Greenberg Traurig LLP. Bessette will be co-chairman of King & Spalding's national securities litigation practice, a role he also held at Greenberg Traurig.
Dechert LLP opened a Chicago office with three securities litigation partners. David Kistenbroker, Joni Jacobsen and Carl Volz were previously with Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, where Kistenbroker was managing partner of the Chicago office and chairman of the litigation and dispute resolution practice.
Nossaman LLP expanded its real estate practice, adding Daniel Katz as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office.
Katz joins Nossaman from Silver & Freedman in Los Angeles. He previously worked at Paul Hastings LLP and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.
In New York, Haynes and Boone LLP hired intellectual property litigator Richard Rochford as a partner. He was with Nixon Peabody LLP.
The firm also added IP partners Philip Hampton II, Kimberley Nobles and Bradley Olson from Dickstein Shapiro LLP.
Hampton and Olson are in Washington, while Nobles is in Orange County, Calif.
Clippings from the next column:
-- Greenhill & Co. taps Deutsche Bank AG's Anthony Parsons and Citigroup Inc.'s Mats Bremberg. Former Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s Luca Ferrari joins as co-head of European corporate advisory.
-- Credit Suisse Group names John Cogan and Ahmad Masud as co-heads of Americas power and utilities investment banking.
-- Pacific Crest Securities Inc. adds managing directors Rodd Langenhagen and Tom Olivier to its software investment banking team.
-- At BBVA, Juan Asúa will be head of corporate and investment banking, while Jaime Sáenz de Tejada will be head of Spain and Portugal. Also, BBVA hires Paul Lai as head of CIB, Asia.
Nossaman LLP expanded its real estate practice, adding Daniel Katz as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office.
