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— Movers and Shakers —
Joining as senior counsel are John Kelly, former fraud section assistant chief for healthcare fraud; and Jonathan Abernethy, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. Jacobson and Kelly will work from Washington; Abernethy will be in New York. UBS hired four bankers from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Jorge Martinez was brought in as head of oil and gas investment banking in Asia. Martinez worked at Lehman for the past eight years and was most recently head of natural resources for Asia. Also joining UBS are Anthony Carango, Scott Wilson and Jia Zhai. Mark Panday, a Hong Kong-based spokesman for UBS, confirmed the appointments. Nomura Holdings Inc. bought Lehman's Asia-Pacific operations for $225 million two weeks ago.
Jefferies & Co. hired Kelly Holloway as a senior vice president in its fixed-income group. He will focus on the sales and trading of U.S. agency bonds, corporate bonds, mortgage-backed and other fixed-income securities for institutional investors based in the Middle East. He was most recently a senior vice president at Vining Sparks IBG LP, a regional broker-dealer based in Memphis, where he worked for 10 years. Broker-dealer Pali Capital Inc. hired an international equity trading team in the U.S. and a distressed equities and SPACs trading team. Brad Marks joins the New York office as head of U.S. equity trading. He reports to Kevin Fisher and Mike Towey, co-heads of U.S. equities. Joining Marks are Michael Montalbano and Charles McLaughlin. The distressed equities and SPACs team will be led by Jesse Podell. All four arrive from Jefferies & Co. Marks ran the international trading desk at Jefferies in New York for the last 11 years. McLaughlin spent 15 years there, while Montalbano spent six. Pali also opened a San Francisco office, headed by Paul Kent, who joins as managing director, head of San Francisco equity sales and trading. Amy Noblin, who joined Pali in June as a research analyst covering softlines retail, joins Kent in the office. Kent was a managing director of equity sales for Jefferies. In 1993, he opened its San Francisco office which he developed from a three-person staff to over 75 professionals. U.K. midmarket private equity firm Phoenix Equity Partners tapped Clarissa Beresford as an investment manager. Beresford joins from the investment banking division at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Irish private investment firm Claret Capital appointed Dermot Hanley and Yuki Narula to managing directors of private equity funds in Dublin and New York, respectively. Hanley joins from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in Toronto, where he was executive director in the mid-corporate investment banking group. Narula joins from J.P. Morgan in New York, where he was executive director of the financial sponsors group responsible for bringing proprietary merger and acquisition transactions to the private equity community. Seyfarth Shaw LLP added a team of nine real estate and corporate and finance attorneys. Shirley Curfman and Harumi Hata join as partners in the corporate and finance practice group, along with real estate practice group partners Amadeo Cantu Jr., J. Dean Heller and Robert Johnson. Four associates will join Oct. 6. All previously practiced in the Los Angeles office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP. Clifford Chance US LLP named Charles Johnson counsel in the finance and restructuring practice. He has more than 11 years of finance experience with Clifford Chance and is a member of the emerging markets group, focusing on structured trade, asset and export credit agency financings. Lisa Ohrin, deputy director of the division of technical payment policy at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will join Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP as a partner in its healthcare practice on Jan. 1. Sonnenschein tapped patent litigator Rachel Repka as counsel in its Silicon Valley office. Repka comes to Sonnenschein from McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Joining with her is senior paralegal Liberty Milano. Duane Morris LLP added two partners in Atlanta: Preston Delashmit and Robert Lesser, who join the corporate practice group, were partners at Schiff Hardin LLP. Delashmit and Lesser focus on transactions involving leveraged employee stock ownership plans. AlixPartners hired David Fitzpatrick as a managing director in its performance improvement practice, based in San Francisco. Previously, he was a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP and at Archstone Consulting LLC. Legal search firm Major, Lindsey & Africa brought in Michelle Brathwaite as a managing director in its associate practice group, focusing on Southern California. Before this, Brathwaite worked at Swan Legal Search and was a corporate associate with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC. |
Three Department of Justice lawyers joined Fulbright & Jaworski LLP's white-collar practice. William Jacobson (pictured),
former assistant chief for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement in
the fraud section of the criminal division, joins as a partner.
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