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— Movers and Shakers —
Yoshihara started his career in 1978 at KPMG LLP and retired last year. He was most recently international vice chairman and global managing partner, responsible for the global market and industry strategy as well as oversight of KPMG's top 250 global accounts. Credit Suisse Group announced that Steven Kwok and Sokho Jung joined Credit Suisse Private Equity Asia as managing directors overseeing activities in Greater China and South Korea, respectively. Based in Hong Kong, they report to Harjit Bhatia, head of CSPEA. Kwok comes in from Bear Stearns Private Equity, where he was a senior managing director and head of the Eagle China Retail and Consumer Fund. Before Bear, he was a managing director at independent China private equity fund Orchid Asia. Prior to that, Kwok was head of Greater China at UBS Capital in Hong Kong. He has also worked at Carlyle Group and Salomon Brothers in New York and Hong Kong. Jung joins Credit Suisse from Standard Chartered Private Equity, where he was head of South Korea from 2002. Earlier, Jung led the distressed asset investment team at Lone Star Advisors Korea. He also worked at GIC Special Investment, the private equity arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp.; Pacific Gemini Partners; PricewaterhouseCoopers; and Bankers Trust Co. in Korea.
Newbridge Securities Corp. hired six New York bankers, led by senior managing director Anthony Sarkis. Others include managing directors Frank Argenziano and David Wong, vice president Constantino Gutierrez and analysts Sean Gately and Christine Tracey. Sarkis was a senior managing director at H.C. Wainwright & Co. and, before that, a co-founder of the investment banking department of Maxim Group LLC. He also worked in the healthcare and technology banking groups at Investec Inc. Argenziano was a director with H.C. Wainwright. Wong has worked at H.C. Wainwright, Maxim Group and Banc of America Securities LLC. Astorg Partners, a French private equity investor in midcap LBOs, appointed Christian Couturier as a partner. Couturier joined Astorg as a director of investments in 2001. Pali Holdings Inc. launched its wealth management division, Global Plus+ Investment Management LLC. GPIM began operations with a strategic equity investment from Grupo Mundial, a Latin American insurance, banking and international wealth management group. The group is led by senior managing director Luis Marino. Jorge Suarez-Velez, most recently global head of private banking for Latin America at ING Private Wealth Management, will lead a team of five professionals and report to Marino. O'Melveny & Myers LLP said transactions lawyers Kenneth Yellen and Demetrios Xistris joined its investment funds and securitization practice. Yellen is a partner practicing from Washington, while senior counsel Xistris works from New York. Before O'Melveny, Yellen was a partner with McKee Nelson LLP. Xistris spent 15 years as a managing director at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., BNP Paribas SA and, most recently, Société Générale, heading the in-house legal teams advising on all equity and equity derivatives activities. DLA Piper hired Tara Lee for its litigation practice group as a partner in Northern Virginia. Lee was formerly in the litigation and national security practice groups at Cooley Godward Kronish LLP. She focuses on battlefield incident litigation, complex commercial litigation, white collar and regulatory defense and government contracts litigation. Separately, Jonathan Atzen joined the firm's corporate and finance practice group as a partner in the Los Angeles and Century City, Calif., offices. Atzen joins from Anthem Venture Partners and has worked at Advanced Cell Technology, where he was a senior vice president and general counsel. Atzen covers corporate securities and venture capital/private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, technology transfer and general corporate matters. In San Diego, Karen Dow joined DLA Piper's intellectual property practice as a partner. Dow specializes in life sciences patent prosecution, opinion and licensing matters. Dow arrives from Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, where she opened that firm's San Diego office as partner-in-charge. Previously, she was co-chair of Morrison & Foerster LLP's life sciences group. Dow began her career as a patent lawyer at Eli Lilly and Co. and then joined Triton Biosciences Inc. as a senior patent and licensing lawyer. The lawyers of white collar law firm Lightfoot Vandevelde Sadowsky Crouchley Rutherford & Levine LLP joined Crowell & Moring LLP, opening its Los Angeles office. The new attorneys are senior partner Michael Lightfoot; partners John Vandevelde, Janet Levine and Jeffrey Rutherford; senior counsel Stephen Sadowsky and John Crouchley; and associate Marta VanLandingham. |
Private equity firm Permira tapped Hiroaki Yoshihara as a senior adviser to the firm. He will cover the technology, media and telecom sectors.
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