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— Movers and Shakers —
Nomura Holdings Inc. announced it would expand its European fixed-income division by hiring more than 150 former staff members of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., which recently announced it would terminate 750 bankers in Europe, mostly in its fixed-income division. Nomura paid $225 million for Lehman's Asia-Pacific operations and said it would close the acquisition of Lehman's Europe and Middle East investment banking and equities businesses on Oct. 13. In January, following completion of a notice period, Paul Stefanick will become a managing director and global head of the industrials group within Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.'s global banking division. Stefanick joins DB from Merrill Lynch & Co., where he was a managing director and chairman of global mergers and acquisitions. He joined Merrill's M&A group in 1988.
UBS Investment Bank tapped Gregory Feller for its investment banking department as a managing director, covering technology. Based in New York, he reports to Brian Webber, global head of technology banking. Feller joins from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., where he was a managing director and senior coverage banker in the technology banking group. Prior to that, he was a vice president with Goldman, Sachs & Co. Feller began his banking career as an associate at Lehman. Zurich Financial Services Group hired Philip Wilson as chief underwriting officer for global life. He will report to CEO Mario Greco. Wilson joins Zurich from American International Group Inc., where he worked for six years in New York and Hong Kong. Most recently, he was chief underwriting officer, accident and health for AIU, based in New York. He had been national manager of risk protection for AMP Ltd. and general manager of underwriting and systems for Aviva plc, responsible for information technology, marketing, finance and underwriting. After 50 years of serving U.S. clients, privately held asset management firm American Century Investments has opened a London office. The firm appointed Michael Green as senior vice president of international. He was CEO of Morgan Stanley Investment Management for the non-Americas. Green and his sales team will target financial intermediaries and institutional investors across the U.K., Europe and the Middle East. DLA Piper will open an office in Romania in November, to be led by corporate lawyer Marian Dinu. The Bucharest office will initially focus on corporate, real estate and finance and projects and house more than 10 lawyers. Dinu was formerly head of corporate mergers and acquisitions for the Bucharest office of Linklaters and general counsel for Petrom SA, an oil and gas group. In Poland, DLA Piper tapped seven tax advisers from Deloitte & Touche LLP. The team is headed by of counsel Marcin Matyka and includes directors Monika Poteraj and Dominika Cabaj, senior associates Wojciech Kotala, Szymon Murawski and Bartosz Matusik and associate Agnieszka Kobak. In Italy, Maricla Pennesi joined the tax practice as partner from Deloitte. Separately, trial lawyer Thomas Carlucci joined the firm's litigation practice as a partner. Carlucci practiced as a federal prosecutor for more than 10 years, serving as an assistant U.S. Attorney in San Francisco. He joins from Foley & Lardner LLP, where he formerly served as co-chair of the white collar defense and corporate compliance practice. Restructuring expert Phillip Kleweno returned to Bain & Co. as a partner of the Bain corporate renewal group. He began his career at Bain in 1985 as an associate consultant and was named a partner before leaving in 1999. Kleweno is the former president of Princess Cruises and Teleflora LLC. K&L Gates LLP enlisted Mary Dietz and Roderick Williams as partners in the firm's Austin, Texas, office. Dietz, a member of the commercial litigation practice, joins from Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, while Williams joins the intellectual property litigation practice from Vinson & Elkins LLP. VMG Partners, which acquires branded consumer product companies in the lower middle market, promoted Kara Cissell-Roell to managing director. Before helping launch VMG in 2005, Cissell-Roell was a principal at TSG Consumer Partners. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP named Juan Pujadas as global leader of the advisory practice. He will remain U.S. leader of the advisory practice. Also, the firm made McLean, Va.-based R. Carter Pate managing partner of its U.S. advisory practice. Pate, who joined PwC in 1994, will still lead the health industries group. He reports to Pujadas. |
After two years as senior counsel in the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy, Bill Bowers rejoined Fulbright & Jaworski LLP as a partner. Before joining the Treasury Department in September 2006, Bowers concentrated on federal income tax planning for complex business transactions.
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