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— Movers and Shakers —
Richard Jenrette joined the board of Blackstone Group LP. Jenrette founded Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. in 1959 with William Donaldson, who was later chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Dan Lufkin. Jenrette served as DLJ's chairman and CEO and was also responsible for taking the investment bank public in 1970. He later became chairman and CEO of The Equitable Cos.
In addition, Jacob Rothschild is stepping down from Blackstone's board.
Jean-Paul Votron will no longer be chief executive of Fortis Bank SA/NV. A search for his replacement is under way. In the meantime Herman Verwilst, deputy CEO and executive member of the board, becomes CEO. Pali Capital hired Randal Stephenson as a senior managing director and head of its new corporate advisory group, based in New York. He was the head of middle-market mergers and acquisitions and head of distressed and special situations M&A at CIT Group Inc. Before CIT, he was a co-founder and managing director of the standalone M&A advisory group at Jefferies & Co. and was a co-founder and head of the New York office of Merrill Lynch & Co.'s midmarket M&A group. Stephenson began his career as a bankruptcy and M&A attorney at Choate Hall & Stewart LLP in Boston. Fund-of-hedge-funds manager Financial Risk Management Ltd. hired Au King-lun as chief executive of FRM Hong Kong Ltd. He will join FRM in September from HSBC plc, where he has worked for 11 years, most recently as head of institutional business, Asia-Pacific, for HSBC Global Asset Management. Cowen Group Inc. said Paul Griffin joined the firm as a managing director in technology investment banking, based in Boston. Griffin will serve as head of East Coast software banking and report to David Ketsdever, head of technology investment banking. Griffin joins Cowen from Oppenheimer & Co., where he was a managing director and head of the Boston-based software investment banking group. He also worked at CIBC World Markets Inc. Pan-European investment bank Altium Ltd. added Katherine Hobbs to its corporate finance team. Previously, Hobbs worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where she was an associate in the U.K. equity capital markets corporate broking team. Richard Price is now CEO of ING Real Estate's Asian investment management business. Before taking on the interim CEO role in Asia, Price worked for ING Clarion in New York. Kevin Keenan, whose energy practice focuses on liquefied natural gas, projects and transactions, joined Baker Botts LLP as a partner in the global projects department. Keenan joins the Houston office from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where he worked from London and Houston. Real estate lawyers Konstantine Kouzine and Maxim Kuznechenkov and corporate attorney Igor Makarov have joined Baker & McKenzie LLP in Moscow as partners, bringing 19 lawyers from PricewaterhouseCoopers with them. Taylor Wessing (Middle East) LLP appointed Jeremy Cama as a consultant to its Dubai office. Cama is managing partner of Berrymans Lace Mawer's Dubai office. He was also managing partner of Denton Wilde Sapte LLP's Singapore office from 1989 to 1993. Jerry Bloom will chair the energy practice of Winston & Strawn LLP. He succeeds former Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner James Curtiss, who retired as head of the practice group. In San Francisco, Farella Braun + Martel LLP hired corporate attorney Philip Milestone for the business transactions practice. Milestone joins the firm from Bingham McCutchen LLP. Also, Laura Roche, business litigation and intellectual property, was elevated to special counsel. On July 1, partner Lara Gilman was named chair of the family wealth practice. European Union and U.K. competition lawyer David Went was promoted to counsel at Sidley Austin LLP. In Brussels, Kristina Nordlander and Ken Daly were made partners in the antitrust/competition practice. Sidley also named the following as counsel: Dallas' Tung Nguyen; Los Angeles-based Ellyce Cooper, Franklin Kang and Marcia Sharp; David Lestz in New York; Ling Chen of Shanghai; Washington-based Leigh Fraiser and Gary Veron. AlixPartners LLP, a restructuring, consulting, and financial advisory firm, added three directors in New York: Mercedes Arango, financial advisory services; and James Quallen and Ralf Schwarzendahl, performance Improvement practice. Arango was a director in the structured finance group at Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. Quallen worked at Mitchell Madison Group and Schwarzendahl was a director at Deloitte Consulting LLP. |
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