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— Movers and Shakers —
On July 15, Kim Fennebresque will step down as non-executive chairman and as a board member of Cowen Group Inc. In March, he retired as CEO and turned the post over to David Malcolm, who was also named president and a member of the board. The board elected John Toffolon Jr. to succeed Fennebresque as non-executive chairman.
Cowen and Co. LLC tapped Matt Schultz as a managing director and head of Internet banking, based in San Francisco. He reports to David Ketsdever, head of technology investment banking. Schultz comes in from Merrill Lynch & Co., where he was a managing director and head of Internet and digital media investment banking. Also in San Francisco, Cowen hired Andrew Barish from Banc of America Securities LLC as a managing director in consumer investment banking to lead the restaurant practice.
Merrill Lynch & Co. named Glen Campbell head of equity research for Canada, following Ihor Danyliuk's departure. Campbell is based in Toronto and joined Merrill in 1996. He will continue to cover Canadian telecom services stocks and will cover U.S. telecom services, supported by New York-based Michael Funk. Additionally, Chris Li was named a senior analyst for Canadian media, supported by Lawson Winder. Russian investment bank Renaissance Group hired Simon Moyse as global communications director, based in Moscow. He joins in September from London's Finsbury Ltd., a financial communications agency. Earlier, Simon was a senior communications adviser to Chancellor Gordon Brown at the U.K. Treasury. Dubai International Capital LLC appointed David Smoot as managing director, private equity. Smoot hails from Morgan Stanley Private Equity, where he was a member of the investment committee, led portfolio investments and helped to build a 35-person team located in New York and London. Before that, he specialized in energy and chemicals investment banking at Salomon Brothers Inc. Private equity firm GoldenTree InSite Partners hired Grace Cheng as chief financial officer. For the past eight years, she worked at Morgan Stanley, most recently as executive director for its private equity real estate fund. Before that, Cheng spent 10 years with Ernst & Young in New York. Highland Capital Management LP brought in Maureen Mitchell as a managing director to head institutional sales globally. Mitchell was a senior managing director at Bear Stearns Asset Management. Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP opened a Washington office and hired five securities litigators. Joining the firm as partners are Howard Schiffman, Mark Mandel and Ida Draim, along with special counsel Eric Bensky and James Wines. Schiffman, who will lead the new office, joins from Dickstein Shapiro LLP. Before entering private practice, he was a trial attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission's division of enforcement. Draim, who worked at Dickstein, was also an attorney in the SEC's division of enforcement and then served as special counsel to then-SEC Chairman John Shad. Wines and Bensky join from Dickstein as well. Mandel, from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, resides in New York. He is a former chief of the New York office of the SEC's division of broker-dealer enforcement. Hogan & Hartson LLP will open an office in Abu Dhabi on Aug. 1. Ray Batla, who will serve as managing partner, focuses on project finance, mergers and acquisitions, and energy and infrastructure matters. Also relocating to Abu Dhabi will be partners Jay Gede and Sean Harrison. Gede, in Baltimore, focuses on renewable and alternative energy, project finance and construction matters. London-based Harrison covers M&A, oil and gas, port and infrastructure development, hotel development and the hospitality industry. Also supporting the office are Mark Mazo, chair of the international business transactions group; and Bruce Parmley, chair of the real estate, hospitality and lodging group. Susan Berson rejoined Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo PC as managing member of its Washington office. She was general counsel for the public and senior markets group of UnitedHealth Group Inc. Berson previously spent six years with Mintz Levin as a member and chair of the healthcare section. David Fischer joined the Washington office of Cooley Godward Kronish LLP as a partner in the tax group. Fischer was head of tax litigation at Baker Hostetler LLP and tax coordinator for its Washington office. In Washington, M. Carter DeLorme joined Jones Day as a partner in the labor and employment practice. DeLorme was a partner with Winston & Strawn LLP. In Seattle, Alvarez & Marsal said former Starbucks Corp. senior vice president of manufacturing and operations Rich Soderberg joined the firm's business consulting practice as a senior director. |
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