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— Movers and Shakers —
Linklaters LLP announced that Jeffrey Schmidt, director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission, will join the firm's New York office as a competition-antitrust partner.
Before the FTC, Schmidt was a partner for 15 years at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP), where he began his career.
Technology banker Chris Augustin joined Merrill Lynch & Co. as chief investment officer. Augustin was CIO and global head of capital markets and banking technology at Citigroup Inc. At Merrill, he reports to Thomas Sanzone, who was named executive vice president and chief administrative officer after leaving Credit Suisse Group earlier this year. Sanzone also worked in Citigroup's corporate and investment bank. Also from Citigroup, Pradeep Pai joined Merrill as a managing director and chief technology officer for investment banking and research. He was a director of fixed income technology for Citi's markets and banking division. New York private equity firm Blackstone Group LP created a cleantech energy group led by James Kiggen. Blackstone's new senior managing director was a senior vice president at asset management firm AllianceBernstein LP, where he led a team focused on emerging sciences and technologies. Walter Vester and Richard Troyer also left AllianceBernstein to join Blackstone's cleantech group as principals. -- Christine Idzelis UBS made six senior hires for its U.S. Equities business. Xiaodong Zhang, from Merrill Lynch & Co. and Ilya Ustilovsky, from Goldman, Sachs & Co., join as executive directors and quantitative strategists, based in Stamford, Conn. Sean Grady arrives as an executive director and equity sales trader in New York from Credit Suisse Group. Formerly senior managing directors with Bear Stearns Cos., Andre Dore and Nicholas Struk become executive directors and equity sales traders in Stamford. From J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Zach Monsma joins UBS as an executive director in the equity sales group, based in New York. FBR Capital Markets Corp. said John La Voie, Jorge Solares-Parkhurst and Brian Thom joined the firm as managing directors in its investment banking division. La Voie works in the financial sponsors group in San Francisco and joins from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Solares-Parkhurst, from Bear Stearns Cos., works on the New York financial institutions team. Thom joined the energy and natural resources group in New York from J.P. Morgan's mergers and acquisitions group. Symphony Technology Group, a strategic holding company and private equity investor, brought in Jose Rivero as a managing director and operating partner. Rivero joins STG from Accenture, where he was global managing director of the custom business process outsourcing services division. Notch Partners added Roger Chen to its team of private equity focused professionals. Chen was director of executive search for Merrill Lynch & Co. and has worked at Heidrick & Struggles International. Kaye Scholer LLP tapped Madeleine Tan for its corporate and finance department as a partner in New York. Tan joins from Brown Rudnick LLP, where she was a partner in the structured finance and climate and energy groups. In Chicago, Reed Smith LLP hired Michael Bregenzer as a partner in the intellectual property group of its litigation department. Bregenzer arrives from Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Kenneth Lee joined Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP as a partner in New York. Lee has practiced at Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Lee covers securities and commercial litigation, international arbitration and intellectual property litigation. Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP welcomed two attorneys to its corporate litigation practice, expanding the business law group in Delaware. David Ross joins as a partner and Bradley Aronstam as a senior associate. Ross was a partner in the Washington office of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel PLLC. Aronstam has practiced in Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP's New York office. Irell & Manella LLP named partners Matthew Sant and Gregory Klein co-chairs of its emerging technologies practice group. Sant, a member of the intellectual property and private equity groups, focuses on technology transactions. Klein concentrates on corporate transactions, including venture capital, public and private financing, and mergers and acquisitions. Dykema Gossett PLLC appointed Robert Linton as assistant leader of its real estate practice group. Linton joined Dykema last month with 52 attorneys from Schwartz Cooper Chartered, which has discontinued operations. In New York, Tamara Carmichael joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as a partner in the intellectual property litigation group, working with the emerging media and advertising and promotions practice groups. She arrives from Holland & Knight LLP. |
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