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— Movers and Shakers —
Hotta (pictured) was an adviser to Morgan Stanley Japan, where he previously served as chairman for seven years. Prior to that, he worked at Sumitomo Bank Ltd., where he created an M&A department. Hotta also served with the Japan Ministry of Finance. Before his M&A role at Merrill Lynch, Yamada spent nine years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. covering financial institutions, telecommunications media and technology.
Barclays Capital Inc. announced its new corporate finance leadership team. Not surprisingly, most of them were top bankers at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. The new division heads are Nisha McGreevy, consumer; Jack Callaway, communications; John Miller, financial sponsors; Patrick McMullan, healthcare; Bob Bertagna and Mathew Pendo, co-heads of industrial; Bill Cohen, media; Carlos Fierro, natural resource; John Lange, power; Steve Hash, real estate; Andy Taussig, retail; and Laurence Goldberg, technology. All report to Joe Gatto and Ros Stephenson, co-heads of corporate finance. After Lehman's bankruptcy, Barclays plc acquired the firm's North American investment banking business and the New York headquarters for $1.75 billion, saving 10,000 jobs. Berkery, Noyes & Co. LLC of New York hired Adam Newman as a director in its education group, specializing in acquisitions, divestitures and strategic alliances. Newman was a managing vice president at Eduventures Inc., a market research and consulting firm. Before that, he was a senior manager at the Corporate Executive Board Co. Coast Asset Management LLC appointed Timothy Holmes as a managing director and head of institutional marketing and investor relations, North America. Holmes worked in the taxable fixed income group at Nuveen Investments. The firm also promoted Michael Welch to managing director and head of intermediary marketing and investor relations, North America. Hogan & Hartson LLP added offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Calif. The firm hired 10 lawyers from Heller Ehrman LLP for those offices and New York. In San Francisco: partner Michael Shepard, who led the white collar criminal defense practice at Heller; of counsel Douglas Schwab, who served as a member of Heller's executive and policy committees, firmwide chair of the litigation department and chair of the San Francisco litigation and securities litigation groups; partner Howard Caro, securities litigation; and partner Megan Dixon, corporate investigations and criminal antitrust matters. Silicon Valley partners are: Norman Blears, former co-chair of the securities litigation practice at Heller; Michael Charlson, a former co-chair of securities litigation and former office managing partner; Robert Hawk, antitrust, commercial and intellectual property litigation; and securities litigator Laurence Weiss. New York partners include Robert Buehler, complex civil and criminal matters; and Kenneth Kirschner, who was chair of the labor and employment practice at Heller Ehrman. Goodwin Procter LLP gained five attorneys from Heller Ehrman LLP. Stephen Davis, Kevin Collins and Wesley Fredericks Jr. joined in New York; Julian Stern, a past chair of Heller Ehrman, joined as of counsel in Silicon Valley; and Steven Feldstein joins the Silicon Valley office as a partner. Davis had served as co-chair of Heller's corporate/venture capital law group and is a former chair of its New York business practice. Collins was a member of VLG and was co-chair of the life-science practice. Fredericks had been chairman of Heller's New York business law practice. Feldstein was the former co-chair of the labor and employment practice nationwide. Stern served as Heller's overall chair and as a member of its executive committee for over 20 years. KPG Ventures, specializing in seed-stage, consumer Internet companies, hired Dave Hills as a general partner. Previously, he was president, CEO and director of LookSmart Ltd. Hills also was president of media solutions for 24/7 Real Media, overseeing its domestic media, search and technology. Winston & Strawn LLP hired John Rosenthal for its Washington office as a partner in the litigation practice. He focuses on complex civil litigation and antitrust matters in federal and state courts. Rosenthal will become co-chair of Winston & Strawn's e-discovery practice and was previously a partner at Howrey LLP. John Slemp has joined consulting firm Protiviti Inc. as a managing director and global leader of the firm's information technology security and privacy practice. Slemp, who spent 30 years at IBM Corp., has covered pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, retail, financial services, government and healthcare. |
Greenhill & Co. opened a Tokyo office to advise Japanese companies on 
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