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— Movers and Shakers —
Shafir, who began his career in 1985 at Goldman, Sachs & Co., fills the role vacated in June when Frank Yeary retired from Citi to become a vice chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley. Shafir will report to Raymond McGuire and Alberto Verme, co-heads of investment banking at Citi. David Kirshenbaum will serve as deputy head of global M&A and will retain his role as head of business selection.
Evercore Partners Inc. hired Jed Sherwindt for its advisory business as a senior managing director, covering technology companies. Sherwindt comes in from Citigroup Inc., where he was a managing director and head of global software investment banking. BNP Paribas CIB made Alain Dib global head of its new distressed finance group, reporting to Frederic Janbon, global head of fixed income, and Dominique Rémy, global head of financing businesses. Dib was most recently co-head of European high-yield capital markets. In the U.S., Monique Hill will head the effort, reporting to Dib. Hill was most recently in charge of distressed trading/special situations in the U.S. Robert W. Baird & Co., a capital markets, private equity, wealth and asset management firm, is adding investment banking capabilities in Asia. The firm hired Anthony Yan-Hong Siu as a managing director. Siu, previously an investment banker at Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong, will focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He will work in the Shanghai office, which also houses Baird Private Equity. JER Partners, the private equity commercial real estate investment division of the J.E. Robert Cos., tapped Chester Barnes as a managing director, head of European asset management. Previously, Barnes was the head of asset management (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) for Merrill Lynch & Co.'s global principal investments division in London. Private investment firm Littlejohn & Co. LLC appointed Kenneth Warren as chief financial officer. He replaces Deborah Jorde, who will handle investor relations and fund marketing support. Warren joins Littlejohn from the Quadrangle Group LLC, where he was a senior vice president of finance, responsible for the hedge fund and asset management businesses. Gregory Case joined Philadelphia private equity firm LLR Partners as a partner. Case was a general partner at Apax Partners, where he spent 16 years. He also led Apax's U.S. financial and business services group. In New York, Sullivan & Worcester LLP brought in John Ferrell as a partner and Joseph Bartlett as of counsel, both in the corporate department. Ferrell was a partner at Mayer Brown LLP. Formerly, he was a managing director of investment banking at Merrill Lynch & Co. and senior counsel of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. Bartlett covers alternative investments, venture capital, emerging companies, corporate restructurings, private equity and buyouts. Carolyn Gray, a former senior official at the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, joined Proskauer Rose LLP as special counsel in the labor and employment department. Based in Washington, she also will serve as co-chair of the accessibility and accommodations practice, along with Allan Weitzman, partner and head of the labor and employment practice in Boca Raton, Fla. Gray joins from Barnes & Thornburg. Proskauer is also opening offices in Hong Kong and Beijing. Former Heller Ehrman LLP partners Ying Li, who led the firm's China business practice, and Joseph Cha, who led its Beijing office and its Asian private equity and fund formation practice, have joined Proskauer as partners. Yuval Tal, a New York corporate partner in the lodging and gaming practice, will become resident partner in Hong Kong. Duane Morris LLP added Jeff Rodwell to its corporate practice group as a partner in the London office. Rodwell was formerly a partner with Reed Smith LLP. Howrey LLP tapped Jeffrey Judd for its San Francisco office as a partner in the global litigation group. Judd comes to Howrey from O'Melveny & Myers LLP. Patent litigator Jimmy Shin joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP as a partner in its Silicon Valley office. Shin comes to Sonnenschein from McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Robert Burton joined Venable LLP as a partner in its government contracts group. Burton most recently served as deputy administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. |
Mark Shafir (pictured) is taking the top dealmaker role at Citigroup Inc.
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