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— Movers and Shakers —
In January, John Dugenske will join UBS as head of fixed income for the U.S. and Canada. Before this, Dugenske was a managing director and head of European and Middle East fixed income at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s former investment management business, Neuberger Berman. Morgan Stanley named 133 managing directors, far less than the 241 it elected last year.
Fixed-income securities firm Stone & Youngberg LLC said Robert Desmond will join its taxable fixed-income group as a vice president, specializing in corporate bond products serving institutional accounts. Desmond was a director of institutional fixed-income sales at Barclays Capital in Chicago. Previously, he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Bear, Stearns & Co. Recently, the firm hired Paul Knepple for its taxable fixed-income group as a vice president in New York. Knepple was an executive director at Morgan Stanley, where he managed institutional accounts, primarily for securitized products. Gannett Welsh & Kotler LLC, a manager of municipal bond, taxable bond and equity investments, hired Daniel Miller as director of equities and a partner. Miller spent more than 20 years at Putnam Investments, where he was chief investment officer for the specialty growth group. Asset management firm Legg Mason Inc. elected Mark Fetting, president, CEO and a director, as chairman of the board. He succeeds Legg Mason co-founder Raymond Mason, who has served in a nonexecutive capacity since Fetting's appointment as chief executive in January. Mason, who leaves the board, will continue as a senior adviser. Delaware Investments made Kristen Bartholdson an additional co-manager of Delaware Investments Global Dividend and Income Fund Inc. and Delaware Investments Dividend and Income Fund Inc. Bartholdson, working in the large-cap value focus team, was promoted to vice president/portfolio manager. She joined the firm in 2006 from Susquehanna International Group LLP and worked in equity research at Credit Suisse Group. Alvarez & Marsal recruited John Tierney for its business consulting division as a managing director in Atlanta. Before A&M, Tierney was managing director of the business consulting practice of Perot Systems. Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP has added former federal prosecutor David Seide to expand its securities enforcement practice in its white collar crime group. Seide, who specializes in securities fraud cases, joins Curtis as a litigation partner. Seide was counsel at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in the securities enforcement and securities litigation practice groups. Barry Sabin will join Latham & Watkins LLP's Washington office as a partner in the litigation department. Sabin joins Latham from the Department of Justice, where he served for 18 years, most recently as deputy assistant attorney general for the criminal division. Al Tamimi & Co., the largest independent law firm in the Middle East, opened an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The office, led by banking and finance partner Nicholas Diacos and corporate and commercial partner Mohammad Arif Saeed, focuses on corporate and commercial, banking, project finance, infrastructure and corporate finance, intellectual property, employment, litigation and property. Barry Sabin will join Latham & Watkins LLP's Washington office as a partner in the litigation department. Sabin joins Latham from the U.S. Department of Justice, where he served for 18 years, most recently as deputy assistant attorney general for the criminal division. C&M International, Crowell & Moring LLP's international trade and investment consulting firm, hired managing director Christopher Padilla. He was undersecretary for international trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP tapped Theodore Allegaert as counsel in New York, focusing on national litigation and business counseling. Allegaert was a senior associate at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP. Earlier, he practiced at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC in Palo Alto, Calif. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP named four attorneys to its January partnership class in New York. David Brown, Andrew Ehrlich and Jacqueline Rubin are litigators, while Manuel Frey practices in the corporate department. Securities class action firm Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check LLP elected two partners in Radnor, Pa., effective Jan. 1: Robin Winchester, shareholder derivative actions; and Michael Hynes, shareholder derivative litigation. |
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP announced that Donald Korb,
chief counsel for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, will join the firm
as a partner to lead its tax controversy practice on Jan. 1. He will
work from Washington.
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