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— Movers and Shakers —
Putnam Investments hired Clare Richer as a senior managing director and chief financial officer. Also, Andra Bolotin was tapped as a managing director and controller. Richer spent more than 25 years at Fidelity Investments, where she was CFO for three years. Most recently, Richer was executive vice president of Fidelity Management & Research Co. Bolotin, who will report to Richer, was a senior vice president and CFO of the developing business group and CFO of Fidelity HR Services. Joel Schneider recently joined Piper Jaffray & Co.'s equity capital markets group as a managing director in New York. Earlier, Schneider was a senior managing director in Bear Stearns Cos.' ECM group. Denham Capital Management LP, an energy and commodities private equity firm, added Bert Koth to its London office to focus on the global mining sector. He joins Denham from the world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton Ltd. He spent four years there working on mergers and acquisitions, strategy and business development activities. Previous to BHP, Koth was a vice president in the metals and mining team at Deutsche Bank AG, and an associate at ING Barings. Close Brothers Group plc made senior changes to its French business, Close Brothers SA, naming Laurent Camilli and Gwénael de Sagazan as co-heads of the business. Camilli joined Close Brothers in 1997, advising companies in the real estate, professional services and healthcare sectors. De Sagazan joined in April 2008 from HSBC plc and advises financial sponsors and companies in the transport and logistics sectors. General Atlantic LLC brought in Fernando Oliveira as a managing director and head of its São Paulo office and Latin American program. Oliveira was a director of Grupo Icatu, a family investment office. Wealth management firm Lenox Advisors hired Daniel Kahn as an associate in New York. Prior to this, he was the owner of Financial Access Corp. in Newburgh, N.Y. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP added James Moyle as a partner in its litigation practice. He will head the commercial litigation team in New York. Moyle comes to Morgan Lewis after 17 years in the New York office of Clifford Chance LLP, where he served on the partnership council. Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC announced that Raymond Sullivan Jr. joined the firm's Washington office as a shareholder, focusing on international trade and customs and export control matters. Sullivan was head of the global customs practice at White & Case LLP. Daniel Papermaster, a partner in Bingham McCutchen LLP's institutional finance practice group, was named managing partner of the Hartford, Conn., office. Reed Smith LLP tapped three partners from Thelen LLP for its business and finance department. Phillip Lookadoo, energy, joins in Washington; Eulalia Mack, securities and capital markets, practices in New York and Rauer Meyer, technology, resides in Los Angeles. The Shanghai office of K&L Gates LLP hired Louis Meng as a partner in the firm's corporate, mergers and acquisitions and securities practice. Meng joins K&L Gates from DLA Piper. Meng focuses on cross-border investments in Chinese companies. K. William Neuman joined Schiff Hardin LLP as of counsel in the real estate group from Heller Ehrman LLP in San Francisco, where he was a shareholder. Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP elected seven partners and six counsel, effective Jan. 1. Partners are Londoner Joanne Etherton, tax; Petr Hanzal and Martin Kramar of Prague, mergers and acquisitions; New York-based Elyse Kirschner, trusts and estates; patent litigator Douglas McClellan in Houston; Theodore Tsekerides of New York, products liability litigation; and Prague's Roman Vojta, complex commercial litigation. Counsel include: M&A attorney David Murgio and structured finance lawyer Brian Waldbaum in New York; Miami complex commercial litigator Ardith Bronson; international trade lawyer John Ryan in Washington; and private equity attorney Zofia Frydrychowicz and complex commercial litigator Lukasz Zak in Warsaw. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP elected five partners, effective Jan. 1: Corporate attorneys Ian Barratt and Sinead O'Shea of London; New York litigator Joshua Levine; Shaolin Luo, corporate in Beijing; and New York-based tax lawyer Nancy Mehlman. |
Steptoe & Johnson LLP created a firmwide derivatives and
credit default swaps litigation and restructuring team. Leading the
team are New York partner John Lovi and Chicago partners Christopher Barber and Stephen O'Donnell for litigation and arbitration matters; and Washington partner Filiberto Agusti and Century City, Calif., partner Robbin Itkin for bankruptcy matters.
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