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— Movers and Shakers —
Lazard Middle Market, an indirect subsidiary of Lazard, hired three managing directors. Robert Frost joins from Piper Jaffray & Co. Andrew Samett worked at Bear, Stearns & Co. and will co-head LMM's distressed advisory and restructuring practice with managing director Andrew Torgove. Scott Smith hails from Wachovia Securities LLC's mergers and acquisitions group and will lead LMM's new office in Charlotte, N.C.
In addition, managing director Robin Engelson will head the firm's private placement practice. Samett is based in New York, Engelson and Frost work from Minneapolis.
Energy investment and merchant banking firm Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. LLC said its private investment subsidiary, TPH Partners LLC, named four senior advisors: Francis Kalman, Richard Lewis, Steven Shapiro and Joel Staff. Kalman was executive vice president and chief financial officer of McDermott International. In 1980, Lewis founded Prima Energy Corp., and served as its chairman, CEO and president until its sale to Petro-Canada in 2004. From October 2000 to April 2006, Shapiro served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Burlington Resources Inc. Staff is a private investor and serves as chairman of the board of Reliant Energy Inc. and chairman of the finance and risk oversight committee. He previously served as chairman and CEO of Reliant Energy from 2003 until 2007. RBC Capital Markets appointed Flavio Paparella as a director and head of institutional structured products sales for Latin America. Most recently, Paparella was with Bank of Ireland, where he headed the financial institutions desk that included Latin American banks, hedge funds and corporations, and U.S. hedge funds, pension funds and asset management firms. Previously, he was a senior director with Dresdner Kleinwort. RBC recently recruited seven bankers from Bear Stearns Cos. Kathy Costine, Rae Boylan, Nelson Luria, James LaVigne, Marcella Finkel, Evie Wang and Sonal Bose joined the municipal finance healthcare practice. Costine, Boylan and Luria arrived as managing directors, LaVigne as a director. Finkel and Wang are vice presidents and Bose is an associate. Costine had managed Bear Stearns' not-for-profit healthcare practice since 1992. Chilton Investment Co. LLC said Francie Heller joined the firm as managing director, client relations. Heller joins Chilton from Bear, Stearns & Co., where she most recently served as a senior managing director and head of the pension, endowment and foundation services group. She was previously president of MBIA Municipal Investors Service Corp. Updata Advisors Inc., an investment bank for the information technology industry, promoted Joel Strauch to partner. Strauch leads the infrastructure software practice. Linklaters LLP appointed Jean-Pierre Blumberg as European managing partner and François De Bauw as managing partner, Belgium. Blumberg, who was managing partner of Belgium since 2001, succeeds Jean-Marc Lefèvre. Blumberg specializes in corporate and merger and acquisition law. De Bauw is head of capital markets in Belgium and a member of Linklaters' international board. Jones Day announced that litigator Gregory Lippetz joined the Silicon Valley Office as a partner in the intellectual property practice. Lippetz arrives from Bingham McCutchen LLP, where he was a partner in San Francisco. In New York, Jones Day hired partner S. Wade Angus for its mergers and acquisitions practice. He was a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he led the Brazil practice. Angus focuses on cross border and infrastructure M&A, private equity, joint venture and restructuring transactions. In Houston, Shahid Ghauri was tapped as a partner. Formerly head of Hunton & Williams LLP's oil and gas practice, Ghauri focuses on oil and gas transactions, project development and finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other transactions in the global energy industry. Davis Polk & Wardwell elected six partners: Corporate attorneys Frank Azzopardi, Maurice Blanco, Mark Lehmkuhler and Jeffrey O'Brien; tax lawyer Neil Barr; and Paula Ryan, trusts and estates. Baker & McKenzie named seven lawyers to its partnership in Australia: Elisabeth Coffey, intellectual property; David Jones, commercial real estate; Bruce Taylor, banking and finance; and corporate and securities lawyers Simon De Young, Sean Duffy, Hanna Lee and Paula McCabe. New special counsel include Eva Hucker, commercial real estate; and employment attorneys Rita Chowdhury and Siobhan Flores-Walsh. Baker also named 10 senior associates: Jastej Bains, Pip Bell, Katie Chapman, Peter Davis, Christopher English, Emilie Farrell, Tess Hardy, Fletch Heinemann, Kathryn Higgs and Jane Williams. Alvarez & Marsal expanded its financial industry advisory services group. Joining as managing directors are James Rives, formerly with the International Monetary Fund, and Jeffery Rose, a former executive of Wells Fargo Bank. Rives works from Washington, while Rose is based in Houston. |
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