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— Movers and Shakers —
Separately, the middle-market PE firm promoted David Basto to managing director and Barrett Gilmer to vice president. Elias Dokas, a former managing director at Blackstone Group LP, joins MidOcean as a principal on the investment staff. Basto covers consumer investments, while Gilmer focuses on investments in the media and communications sectors. Dokas joins as a principal from Blackstone, where he spent 11 years and focused on the media, telecommunications and financial services space. He began his career in 1991 in the PE group of Merrill Lynch & Co.
Lehman Brothers Inc. appointed Nobumichi Hattori and Allan O'Bryant as external advisers to its Japan investment banking division. Hattori will advice on mergers and acquisitions, while O'Bryant will focus on the insurance sector. Hattori is a chaired professor at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University. He also spent 14 years at Goldman Sachs Japan, including five as head of Japan M&A (1989-2003). Before establishing Yunzei Capital, where he is president and CEO, O'Bryant spent 12 years at Aflac International, Japan. Andrew Shore joined Moelis & Co. as a managing director, based in New York, to lead coverage of household and personal care companies and cover the consumer and retail sector. Shore comes in from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., where he was a managing director in the global consumer products group. Before that, he was a managing director in Deutsche Bank AG's consumer products and retail group and previously head of global consumer products strategy. Pali Holdings Inc. said Barbara Bishop joined the firm as general counsel, based in New York and reporting to chairman and CEO Brad Reifler and Joseph Schenk, chief operating officer. Bishop spent the last 23 years practicing at Bear, Stearns & Co., where she was a senior managing director in the legal and compliance department. Linden LLC, a Chicago private equity firm focusing on middle market leveraged buyout investments in healthcare and life sciences, hired Richard Novak as an operating partner. Novak most recently served as chief operating officer of Laboratory Corp. of America. Luxembourg's CVC Capital Partners created a global financial institutions sector team. Jonathan Feuer, a managing partner and 20-year veteran of the firm who covers private equity, will lead the team. He will be joined by Peter Rutland. Deutsche Bank AG appointed Robert Kalff as a managing director to lead a new business in London focused on attracting clients who need corporate finance and wealth management advice. Kalff joins Deutsche Bank after nine years at Credit Suisse Group. Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux, Crédit Agricole Group's European equity broker, opened an office in San Francisco. For its European equity sales staff in San Francisco, the firm hired David Basham as a managing director and Karen Linsky as a vice president. Both were most recently with Bear, Stearns & Co., where Basham was a senior managing director of equity sales and Linsky an associate director. Separately, the firm appointed Joshua Natkin and Etrita Ibroci as managing director and senior vice president, respectively, for the emerging markets team, which is based in New York. Corporate lawyer Peter Gaines joined Jenner & Block LLP as a partner. Most recently, he was a Chicago-based partner at Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP. Earlier, Gaines spent 20 years practicing with Mayer Brown LLP. McDermott Will & Emery LLP said Gary Moss will join as a partner and London head of intellectual property. He will arrive from Taylor Wessing. Sophie Dagenais rejoined Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP as a partner in the public finance department in Baltimore. She was principal and co-founder of FiveStone Properties LLC, a real estate development and operating company, and Pinnacle Properties & Development LLC. Dagenais also served as general counsel and chief administrative officer of DTZ Rockwood LLC, a real estate investment banking firm in New York. Trial lawyer Thomas Rohback joined Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP as a partner. Rohback, previously with the New York and Hartford, Conn., of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, will focus on complex litigation and intellectual property disputes. Proskauer Rose LLP hired Grégoire Goussu and Mireille Dany as partners in Paris. Goussu has joins the intellectual property practice and Dany practices in the antitrust and trade regulation practice. Goussu comes in from Gide Loyrette Nouel, while Dany joins from Baker & McKenzie LLP. Rolf Zaiss joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a partner in the Erisa practice in New York. Zaiss focuses on the employee benefits and executive compensation aspects of merger and acquisition transactions. He joins from Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. |
Private equity firm MidOcean Partners LLP recruited former New York Gov. George Pataki as a member of its executive board. Last year, Pataki joined law firm Chadbourne and Parke LLP as counsel, working in the environmental, energy and corporate practices.
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