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— Movers and Shakers —
Carlyle Group hired Christopher Dodds as a senior adviser to its global financial services group, based in San Francisco. Dodds retired as chief financial officer and executive vice president of Charles Schwab Corp. in May 2007 after 21 years with the firm. Carlyle established its global financial services group in June 2007. Ronald Joelson will join Genworth Financial Inc. as chief investment officer, responsible for managing its nearly $70 billion investment portfolio. Joelson comes to Genworth from J.P. Morgan Asset Management in New York, where he was managing director of insurance strategic markets coverage. From 1984 to 2007 Joelson worked at Prudential Financial Inc. in Newark, N.J., where he was CIO. He spent his first 11 years there in private placements and structured finance. Seabury Group LLC formed a Hong Kong subsidiary, Seabury Aviation & Aerospace Asia (Hong Kong) Ltd. Aviation and shipping executive David Turnbull joined as chairman of that entity. Turnbull is, and will remain, executive chairman of Pacific Basin Shipping Ltd. Turnbull was previously a director of Allco Finance Group (Hong Kong) Ltd. and past chairman of Swire Pacific Ltd. Before that, he was the CEO and deputy chairman of Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. from 1998 to 2005, and chairman of the board from 2005 to 2006. Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll PLLC's chairman Michael Hausfeld left the firm to start his own, Washington-based Hausfeld LLP. The new firm will include 25 to 30 partners and associates, most of which are from the class action lawyer's former firm, now Cohen, Milstein & Toll PLLC. Hausfeld began in the predecessor firms that became Cohen Milstein in 1971. He was head of the firm's antitrust and international practice groups. His new firm will provide domestic and international legal services in competition law, human rights, product liability civil rights, environmental and securities. In addition to the Washington office, Hausfeld plans to operate in London, New York and San Francisco. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP took on 17 energy transaction lawyers from Thelen LLP, whose partners last week completed a vote to dissolve the San Francisco-based law firm. Eight arrive as partners. Doug Davidson was managing partner of Thelen's New York office and co-chair of the firm's corporate and securities practice. John Hood covers corporate finance, securities, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and general corporate matters in the energy and utilities industries. Bob Reger concentrates on corporate finance, Securities and Exchange Commission matters, corporate governance, M&A and general corporate matters. Other partners include Thomas Giblin Jr., corporate and financial matters; Mahendra Churamen, securitization; Walter Godlewski, corporate finance transactions; Bobbi O'Connor, corporate finance, securities and general corporate matters; and Kim Reisler, finance and securities. The senior counsel are corporate lawyer Bill Baker; Marc Lasky, regulatory and financial issues; and Steve Kinney, debt financing and creditors' rights. Three counsel arriving at Morgan Lewis include Jennifer Goldberg, Michael Connolly and Maria Ross. Rounding out the group are associates Matthew Murphy, Jonathan Shade and Anand Shah. Separately, the firm added Claud Eley as a partner in its business and finance practice, resident in New York. Eley had served as managing partner of Hogan & Hartson LLP's Brussels office for more than seven years. Eley handles mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and business transactions. In Washington, Megan Rosia joined Crowell & Moring LLP's aviation group as a partner. Rosia is a former assistant administrator for government and industry affairs at the Federal Aviation Administration. Before that, she spent 12 years as the chief regulatory and international affairs attorney for Northwest Airlines Corp. From 1990 to 1994, Rosia was an associate with Crowell & Moring, representing corporate clients in civil antitrust litigation, grand jury investigations and proceedings before the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. Fort Lauderdale, Fla. law firm Gordon, Hargrove and James PA joined Sedgwick, Detert, Moran and Arnold LLP, giving Sedgwick its first Florida office. Founding attorneys John Hargrove and Gordon James, together with their shareholders and associates, will join Sedgwick on Jan. 1. The lawyers handle products liability, intellectual property, commercial, media and class action litigation. |
Bank of America Corp. and Merrill Lynch & Co. said Merrill's Andrea Orcel, head of global origination and president of Europe, Middle East and Africa, or EMEA, global markets and investment banking, will become president of the combined banks' global banking, securities and wealth management division. Orcel, who has worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Boston Consulting Group, joined Merrill in 1992 as part of the financial institutions group.
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