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— Movers and Shakers —
In New York, Evercore Partners Inc. hired Les Fabuss for its advisory business as a senior managing director. Fabuss comes to Evercore after a 25-year career at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., where he was most recently a vice chairman of global investment banking. Fabuss will advise corporate clients on mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions. He will cover the aerospace and defense industry and also work with private equity firms. Fabuss began his investment banking career in 1979 at Dillon, Read & Co.
Barclays Capital hired 20 professionals formerly with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in Israel. The group includes Leonard Rosen, who was named CEO of Israel, based in Tel Aviv. He held the same title at Lehman. All of the senior investment banking team and equity research team of the former Lehman Israel operation joined BarCap. The team reports to John Winter, head of investment banking, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Rothschild named Antonio Villalon as co-head of its financial institutions group alongside Stefano Marsaglia. Villalon was vice chairman of Lehman Brothers Inc. Also from Lehman, Stephen Fox becomes co-head of FIG, U.K., and managing director Philippe Le Baquer will cover cross-border and continental European FIG deals. Private equity firm LNK Partners brought in consumer products industry executive Phil Marineau as a partner. Marineau has been president of Quaker Oats Co., where he spent 23 years; CEO of Pepsi North America; and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. Christian Reitberger, a former partner at Apax Partners, joined pan-European venture capital firm Wellington Partners as venture partner. Reitberger will evaluate cleantech and other growth investment opportunities. Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP tapped Benton Armstrong as West Coast leader of its analytic and forensic technology and discovery practices. Armstrong, a principal, is based in San Francisco. He joins from PricewaterhouseCoopers. Ernst & Young LLP's transaction advisory services group named Stephen Payne its Americas leader for working capital advisory services. Payne was president at REL, a global operating division of consulting firm Hackett Group. Nixon Peabody LLP has arrived in France. Nixon Peabody International LLP is affiliated with a group of 25 lawyers in Paris, led by tax and corporate lawyer Arnaud de Senilhes. The lawyers cover intellectual property, information technology, private equity, real estate, tax, labor and litigation. Senilhes is the former managing partner of Taylor Wessing France, which recently settled a legal dispute with Nixon Peabody over earlier hires in France. Loeb & Loeb LLP said it will open a Beijing office in the spring, specializing in corporate transactions. Securities lawyer Eric Doering, who will be one of the first attorneys in the China office, joined the firm as a partner in the corporate department. He will work in New York for now. Previously, Doering was vice president, general counsel and secretary for Loeb & Loeb client Tiens Biotech Group Inc. (USA). Before that, he was a partner with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, representing technology companies, venture capital firms and investment banks in cross-border corporate finance transactions. Sidley Austin LLP grabbed six partners and several of counsel and associates from Heller Ehrman LLP. The San Francisco partners are Sara Brody, Marie Fiala, Michael Rugen and Carol Lynn Thompson. Stan Berman joined as a partner in Washington, and Yang Ing Loong joined as a partner in Hong Kong, resident in Singapore. Brody was the chair of Heller's securities litigation practice. Rugen co-chaired that group, and Thompson was co-chair of Heller's San Francisco litigation department. Fiala was managing director of Heller's firmwide litigation department and chair of its compensation committee. Partner Brian Erickson and of counsel Wayne Harding joined DLA Piper's patent litigation practice in Austin. They join from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. Crowell & Moring LLP added partner John Brew to the firm's international trade group in Washington. He arrives from Kelley Drye & Warren LLP. Brew will also work closely with the white collar and securities litigation group. Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP recently hired partners Carl Johnson and Dan Titelbaum, both previously practicing at Heller Ehrman LLP, for its San Francisco office. Johnson works in real estate, while Titelbaum will be a part of the business-corporate practice. |
Dechert LLP said senior trial lawyer Matthew Larrabee joined the firm in San Francisco. Larrabee was most recently chairman of Heller Ehrman LLP.
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