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— Movers and Shakers —
James Paris was named a Barclays Capital managing director and head of its paper and packing investment banking group in New York. Previously, he was a managing director in Deutsche Bank AG's leveraged finance group. Ares Management LLC's specialty finance unit, Ares Capital Corp., has opened offices in Chicago and Atlanta and made three hires. Mark Affolter was named as a managing director to cover the Midwest in Chicago. He was previously a managing director with CIT Group Inc. Michael Dieber joins as a co-head of the portfolio management group in New York. He had been a managing director at restructuring firm Conway, Del Genio, Gries & Co. LLC. Carl Drake is senior vice president of finance and head of capital markets and investor relations. He will also cover the Southwest from Atlanta. He was a managing director with SunTrust Bank Inc.'s investment banking arm SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
Broadpoint Capital Inc., a Broadpoint Securities Group Inc. broker-dealer subsidiary, announced three hires for its sales group. Kevin Miller, who joins as a managing director of high yield sales, was most-recently founding partner and managing director of Sand Spring Capital. Michael Komson, who also joins as managing director of high-yield sales, worked previously for Bear Stearns Cos., focusing among other things on high yield and distressed debt. Timothy Zaino, a new vice president of bank debt sales, was most recently a director in leveraged loan and high-yield bond sales and trading at UBS. Sagent Advisors Inc. added managing director Abid Rizvi and principal Scott Moses to its consumer and retail group. Rizvi will focus on the food and beverage sector. He moves from Merrill Lynch & Co. where he was a managing director in the bank's consumer products group. Moses moves from J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. where he was an executive director and will be a principal and head the firm's food and drug specialty retail advisory business. Paul Capital Partners promoted Ken McLeod to partner in London. He joined the firm four years ago and focuses on European and Asian healthcare investments. Walden International has added Bill Li as a managing director in Beijing. The venture firm also promoted two vice presidents to managing directors in China: Hing Wong in Beijing and Yimin Zimmerer in Shanghai. Covington & Burling LLP has opened an office in Beijing and tapped partner Stuart Stock, who stepped down as chair of the firm's management committee in January, to head it. Ellen Eliasoph, a one-time Warner Bros. Entertainment executive and Cao Yu, who was formerly a partner with China's Haiwen & Partners, join the office as senior lawyers. Eli Katz has joined Chadbourne & Parke LLP as tax counsel. He moves from General Electric Co.'s New York office, where he was vice president of tax planning and served as counsel for GE's Energy Financial Services business. Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP added Linda Willett as a partner in New York. Willett was Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s vice president and deputy general counsel. Vinson & Elkins LLP has moved three attorneys to the Middle East. Corporate partners Jim Knight and Creighton Smith move from Houston to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, respectively. Hessam Kalantar has joined the firm's Dubai office as counsel. Andrew Katzenstein has joined Proskauer Rose LLP's Los Angeles office as a partner in its personal planning department and fiduciary litigation practice group. He joins from the Los Angeles office of Katten, Muchin, Rosenman LLP, where he was a partner. In Atlanta, Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP has added Jason Jackson, a computer science patent lawyer, as an associate in its intellectual property group. He had worked for Needle & Rosenberg PC. Consulting firm Resolution Economics LLC has opened a San Francisco office and tapped Bruce Fortenbaugh as a director. Previously, Fortenbaugh was a principal with strategic advisory firm LECG LLC. Legal recruiting firm Major Lindsey & Africa has added Phillip Daman and Robin Sandoe as managing directors of business development in its Southern California in-house practice area. Previously, Daman spent five years as the director of business development and client relations for legal software firm Practice Technologies Inc. and Sandoe was an associate at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP. Gary LaBranch will become president and CEO of the Association for Corporate Growth, effective Sept. 1. LaBranch has been the president and CEO of the Association Forum of Chicagoland since 2003. |
In Chicago, Leslie Fenton (pictured) has joined KPMG Corporate Finance LLC as a managing director and head of its insurance investment banking team. She was previously a managing director with Navigant Consulting Inc.'s corporate finance division, Navigant Capital Advisors LLC.
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