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— Movers and Shakers —
Wachovia Securities LLC hired Michael Phalen for its investment banking division as managing director. Based in Charlotte, N.C., he reports to Joe Kennedy, managing director and head of retail investment banking. Phalen joins from Oppenheimer & Co. He was also chief financial officer at Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. and worked at CIBC World Markets Inc. and Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown.
Separately, Chris Morris joined Wachovia Securities as managing director and head of food and beverage investment banking, based in New York. He previously held that title at Lehman Brothers Inc. Robert Steel, who was most recently undersecretary for domestic finance at the U.S. Department of Treasury, became Wachovia Corp.'s CEO, president and a member of the board. Steel retired as vice chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in February 2004. He joined Goldman in 1976.
On Oct. 1, Koenraad Dejonckheere will replace Dirk Boogmans as CEO of GIMV, Belgium's largest venture capital firm. Dejonckheere is a managing director and head of corporate finance at KBC Securities. Dallas investment bank Allegiance Capital Corp. created a special situations division, including financial restructuring and distressed mergers and acquisitions. Vice president Pamela Ragon will lead the effort. Richmond, Va.-based Boxwood Partners brought in Bryan Burden as a vice president. Burden was an associate in the investment banking group at Wachovia Securities LLC, where he covered merger and acquisitions and capital raises for REITs as well as leading private real estate companies. Cardano added asset allocation specialist Hemmo Hemmes to its London-based investment management team. Hemmes was a senior portfolio manager with Fortis Bank NV/SA. Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP expanded its forensic and dispute services practice, naming Andrew Flower as a principal. Flower comes to New York from the Paris office of Deloitte France, where he covered international arbitration. In San Francisco, James Pampinella joined the practice as a director from Navigant Consulting Inc. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC tapped Robert Gold as a partner in its litigation practice. Gold was a partner with DLA Piper. Gold has been a member of Shea & Gould, Gold & Wachtel and McDermott Will & Emery LLP. From 1973 to 1977, Gold was an assistant U.S. attorney in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where he worked in the official corruption unit and the securities fraud unit. Bank regulatory counsel Kathleen Scott joined Arnold & Porter LLP's financial services practice group in New York from White & Case LLP. She will work closely with Kevin Barnard and Alan Avery, a financial services regulatory team which joined Arnold & Porter last week from White & Case. Barnard now serves as co-head of the financial services practice, alongside A. Patrick Doyle. Crowell & Moring LLP's New York office gained three financial services and bankruptcy attorneys. They are led by partner Michael Blumenthal, former national chair of the business reorganization and creditors' rights group at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP. Counsel Bruce Zabarauskas joins from Thelen and counsel Steven Eichel arrives from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Marc Hankin, a bankruptcy lawyer, joined Jenner & Block LLP as a partner in New York. Also, Heather McArn will join the bankruptcy practice as special counsel on Aug. 4. Hankin was counsel in the bankruptcy and reorganization group of Shearman & Sterling LLP. McArn has practiced at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced that partner Burke McDavid returned to its Moscow office to head the Russian investment funds practice. He was based in Dallas. In Washington, Covington & Burling LLP hired tax partners Sam Maruca and Dan Luchsinger. Both arrive from Miller & Chevalier, where Maruca was chair of the firm. Jim Paine is joining Kilpatrick Stockton LLP's commercial transactions team as a partner. Paine was primary counsel for information technology and data security matters at Home Depot Inc. Hunton & Williams LLP promoted Penny Shamblin, Evan Wolff and Andrea Wortzel to counsel. All are members of the firm's administrative law practice. Major, Lindsey & Africa added managing directors Ron Nye and Riku Ahluwalia to its Chicago office. Nye was a corporate partner with Winston & Strawn LLP, where he specialized in structured finance transactions and asset acquisitions and divestitures. Ahluwalia has worked at Prudential Securities Inc. |
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