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by Baz Hiralal
Nomura Holdings Inc. named Tom Haskins as a managing director and head of foreign exchange sales for the Americas. It also tapped Eric Miller as a managing director and head of interest rates sales, Americas.
Haskins is an 11-year veteran of Morgan Stanley, where he was most recently head of FX/emerging market sales, Americas. Miller spent 12 years at Credit Suisse Group, most recently as co-head of USD rates sales and USD swaps product manager.
Arif Husain will join T. Rowe Price International Ltd. on August 30 in London as head of international fixed income. He will succeed Ian Kelson, who will remain in the fixed income division and continue to serve on the firm's asset allocation committee.
Husain was director of both European fixed income and U.K. and Euro portfolio management for AllianceBernstein. He was responsible for management of the Europe, Middle East and Africa fixed income business. Prior to joining AllianceBernstein LP in 1999, Husain was assistant director of European derivatives trading at Greenwich NatWest and traded interest rate swaps at Bank of America Corp.
Willis Group Holdings expanded its insurance industry investment banking platform, Willis Capital Markets & Advisory, hiring Michael Guo as a managing director and head of Asia. Based in Hong Kong, he will report to Tony Ursano, chief executive of WCMA.
Guo joins from Boston Consulting Group, where he was a partner and managing director of the firm's financial services practice, covering insurance, banking, brokerage and fund management. He was also regional leader of BCG's corporate banking segment in Asia.
Dallas-based investment management firm Highland Capital Management LP added Jun Park as a director of business development for Korea, based in Seoul. Park was with Woori Financial Principal Investment in Seoul, responsible for establishing fund structures and managing private equity assets in categories including mezzanine debt, buyouts, real estate and infrastructure investments in the U.K., U.S. and Korea. Prior to Woori, Park worked at Blackstone Group LP and started his career at Salomon Brothers Asset Management in New York.
Menlo Ventures brought in Avery More as a venture partner and Alex Gorelik as an entrepreneur-in-residence.
More will source deals in the enterprise space. He was the active chairman of Aeroscout (a Menlo portfolio company, acquired by Stanley Healthcare Solutions in 2012). He also chairs the board of Vidyo (a Menlo portfolio company), QualiSystems and BuzzStream, and is a board member of SolarEdge Technologies. Avery was also founder and CEO of CompuCom.
Gorelik will focus on incubating a company at Menlo and provide advice on cloud and big data sectors. He had been general manager of Informatica's data quality business unit and senior vice president of R&D for core technology. Gorelik joined Informatica from IBM Corp. He also founded Exeros (acquired by IBM) and Acta Technology (acquired by Business Objects).
Alvarez & Marsal tapped Graeme Ashley-Fenn as head of its regulatory advisory practice in London. Ashley-Fenn served for nearly eight years as a director at the FSA, where he helped oversee the creation of the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority. He then co-founded Gratia Consultancy Ltd. in 2012. Prior to the FSA, he was an executive board member of Pitney Bowes Finance plc. He also held senior roles in NatWest Bank plc, GE Capital and Lloyds Banking Group.
M&G Investments added Andrius Isciukas to its retail fixed-interest team. He was a global high-yield analyst at HSBC Asset Management.
Joseph W. Bartlett joined McCarter & English LLP as special counsel in the firm's corporate, securities and financial institutions practice in New York. He arrived from Sullivan & Worcester LLP and was president of the Boston Bar Association and general counsel and undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce. He counsels asset managers and focuses on technology companies.
King & Spalding LLP recruited Iain MacVay to launch a London trade and customs practice. MacVay joins King & Spalding from Bird & Bird, where he was head of international trade and customs for Brussels and London.
Ray Hartman joined Cooley LLP as a partner in San Diego from DLA Piper. He will be a commercial litigator and specializes in environmental litigation. He served as co-counsel with Steve Strauss for Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP in a $350 million environmental lawsuit involving contamination near Qualcomm Stadium that was dismissed.
Perkins Coie LLP recently added partners Kelly D. Hine and I. Bobby Majumder and three associates to its Dallas office. Hine was most recently a litigation partner at Fish & Richardson PC. Majumder was a partner at K&L Gates LLP and focuses on corporate and securities transactions.
Rimon PC added transaction attorney Juan E. Zúñiga, who has worked on cross-border deals throughout Latin America and elsewhere, as a partner in the firm's new San Diego office. He is joined by associate Angela Gonzales. They arrive from Cross Border Law Group PC, which Zúñiga founded in 2007. Before that, Zúñiga was special counsel with Heller Ehrman LLP and practiced at Baker & McKenzie LLP.
Alvarez & Marsal tapped Graeme Ashley-Fenn as head of its regulatory advisory practice in London.
