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— Movers and Shakers —
Goldman, Sachs & Co. said lobbyist Todd Malan is joining its government affairs team as a vice president in early September. He arrives from the Organization for International Investment, where he was president and CEO. Malan's expertise is in cross-border investments, and he will work on a broad range of international matters.
In addition, Ken Connolly started as a vice president in June. He joined Goldman Sachs from ML Strategies, where he was a senior vice president. Before that, Connolly served in the U.S. Senate for 13 years, most recently as staff director of the environment and public works committee. At Goldman, he is focusing on energy and the environment. Jorge Mora left UBS to found a $50 million investment fund with Daniel Holtz, a managing principal of Walden Capital Management, Gustavo Frieri, a managing principal for Global Securities Advisors LLC, and Serge Esposito. Esposito leads New York-based Italian Wine Merchants, which Mora, along with other investors, bought out. Bottled Asset Fund will invest in blue-chip wines in inefficient markets, mostly in Italy. Mora was a managing director in the financial sponsors group at UBS.
Barclays Wealth said it hired Pheabe Chau as its Singapore head of investment specialists, reporting to Thomas Fekete, global head of investment specialists. Chau was a senior vice president at RBS Coutts Bank Ltd. and set up investment advisory services for its private banking joint venture with Bank of China. Separately, the bank appointed Anny Au Yeung as a relationship manager in its wealth intermediaries business in Hong Kong. She joins from Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. and reports to David Stanley, director and head of offshore financial markets. Recently, the firm hired Andreas Kuhnle as associate director of alternative investments product development, based in Singapore. Kuhnle previously spent 12 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Also, Manpreet Gill was tapped as an Asia strategist in Singapore, reporting to Michael Dicks, global head of research and investment strategy. Gill arrived from ICICI Bank. Investment bank Lincoln International enlisted Bob Edmonds as an advisory director for the firm's aerospace and defense practice. He is now a principal with executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles International Inc. Edmonds retired from the U.S. Air Force after 28 years of service with the rank of brigadier general. At healthcare investment bank Leerink Swann & Co., Adam Berger and Daniel Lepanto joined the firm's mergers and acquisitions group, and Marc Grasso joined the corporate finance group. Berger becomes head of M&A. Most recently, he was head of healthcare M&A for Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Lepanto worked at Cowen and Co. LLC. Grasso joins as head of West Coast investment banking from Morgan Stanley. All are managing directors. Associate Shawn Foust prompted Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP to formally launch a video game industry group. Also in the practice are partners James Chadwick, Shaun Clark, Bob Darwell, Bob Gerber, Keith Gercken, Tom Hopkins, Ed Komen, Brian Pass, Kent Raygor, Neil Smith and Marc Sockol and associates Bethany Hollister and Oscar Cisneros. In Miami, Foley & Lardner LLP tapped Donna Bucella as of counsel and Dario Carnevale as senior counsel. Bucella focuses on homeland security, immigration, government contracts and internal corporate investigations. Carnevale covers finance, real estate, entertainment and corporate transactions as vice chair of the firm's real estate practice, South Florida. Carnevale was with Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, while Bucella arrived from Perot Systems Government Services Inc. Foley opened the Miami office in December with nine attorneys from Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC: William Davis, Guillermo Fernandez-Quincoces, Leslie Smith, Roy Barquet, Mark Neuberger, Darin Zenov, Alan Seagrave, Laura Ganoza and Christopher Furlan. Davis serves as office managing partner. Carlos Solé III joined DLA Piper's corporate and finance practice group as a partner in Houston. Once a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Solé focuses on domestic and international transactions in the energy field. Since its entry in Houston in March, DLA Piper hired Jack O'Neill, Mark White, Jack Langlois, Michael Bolton and Ileana Blanco. Patent attorney Stephen De Klerk joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP's Silicon Valley office as a partner in its national intellectual property and technology group. He comes from Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP. Earlier this week, Sonnenschein added Thomas Hanley to its Washington office as partner in its corporate practice. Hanley spent the early part of his career in the Securities and Exchange Commission's division of corporation finance and joins from Holland & Knight LLP. Loeb & Loeb LLP elected six attorneys to its partnership. New York partners include Giovanni Caruso and Tahra Wright, corporate and securities; and Mark Goldberg, employment. In Los Angeles: Marla Aspinwall, tax, ERISA, labor and securities; and Linda Deitch and Neal Jannol, estate and tax planning. |
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