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— Movers and Shakers —
Carlyle Group announced 24 promotions. New managing directors in Asia include: Han Chen and Nicholas Shao in Shanghai; Satoru Hayashi in Tokyo; James Kim in Hong Kong; and in Beijing, Feng Xiao. David Roth was also named a managing director in Washington. New principals-directors include: Michael Gershenson and Keith Taylor in Washington; Matthew Stanczuk in New York; Frazer Burkart in Los Angeles; in London, Fernando Chueca, Matthew Cottrell and Martin Glavin; Alexis Martineau in Paris; Sang Pil (Philip) Park in Seoul; and in Tokyo, Daisuke Takatsuki. Investor services professionals in Washington, Jeremy Anderson, Sam (Trey) Block, Lauren Dillard, Leslie Eglin, Erica Herberg, Stephen Stryker, Catherine Ziobro, and Katherine Elmore-Jones in London, were also named principals-directors.
Peter J. Solomon Co. hired Frederick Frank as vice chairman and Mary Tanner as managing director to launch and head the investment bank's pharmaceutical and life sciences practice. Frank was most recently vice chairman of Barclays Capital. Tanner founded and was head of Life Sciences Partners, a company focused on healthcare investment and strategic advising. William Blair & Co. LLC announced three internal moves. Dick Kiphart, formerly head of corporate finance for the investment firm and a member of the executive committee, has been named head of the private client advisers business. He will remain on the executive committee. Brent Gledhill, who is the former head of European and Asian banking based in London since 2001, moves to Chicago to head corporate finance and joins the executive committee. Matthew Gooch, formerly co-head of special situations and restructuring, will move to London to head European and Asian banking. AlixPartners added Susan Brown and Richard Holmes as directors in the firm's information management services practice in Dallas. Brown joined AlixPartners from Dallas-based ICH Corp. and its successor, Lone Star Liquidating Trust, where she was managing trustee. Holmes was previously a partner at Andersen LLP, where he was in charge of the firm's Southwest corporate recovery group. Separately, AlixPartners added David Hofflich as a director in its turnaround and restructuring services practice, based in New York. He moves from Tatum Inc. in Irvine, Calif., where he served as a partner. In London, the firm added John Corr as a director in its enterprise improvement practice. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. added Geoffrey Cook and Kevin Stone as partners effective Jan. 1, 2009. Cook joined Brown Brothers in Luxembourg in 1997. Stone joined in 1992. He is based in the firm's New York office. Huron Consulting Group Inc. hired Charles Ragan and Edward Wertzberger as managing directors. Ragan joins the company's legal consulting practice and moves from Redgrave Daley Ragan & Wagner LLP where he was a founding partner. Wertzberger, who joins Huron's accounting and financial consulting practice, was previously a co-owner and managing director of consulting firm RevNew Group Inc. McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP added 17 attorneys to its real estate and litigation groups from Los Angeles-based Brown Winfield Canzoneri Abram Inc. Joining the firm's real estate practice are: Steven Abram, James Camp, Tony Canzoneri, Gordon Eng, Wendy Glenn, Geoff Mitchell, Bill Pham, Dennis Roy and Mark Steres as partners; senior counsel Ken Brown; and Donald Ries as of counsel. Partners Wayne Grejewski, Michael Wallenstein and Thomas Winfield III join the firm's litigation team, along with associates Adrian Guerra, Diana Vernazza and Aimee Wong. Ronald Goldberg and Edward Christian have returned to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's corporate practice. Goldberg is a partner in Los Angeles and Christian is senior counsel in New York. Both return to the firm from McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Lindsay Conner has joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP as a partner in the firm's entertainment and media practice. Based in Los Angeles, he moves from Dickstein Shapiro LLP, where he headed the firm's entertainment law group. Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP added Peter Morgan as a partner in its corporate practice. Based in New York, he will focus on finance and private equity. He joins from Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP, where he served as chair of the firm's hedge fund group. Michael Flynn and Thomas L'Helias have joined Fulbright & Jaworski LLP as corporate partners in New York. They move from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP. Quarles & Brady LLP added Richard Young as a partner in the firm's intellectual property practice in Chicago. He spent 20 years at Gardner Carton & Douglas, now Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, in Chicago. Patrick Egan has joined Wiggin and Dana LLP's white-collar defense, investigations and corporate compliance group in Philadelphia. Egan is a former partner at Fox Rothschild LLP, where he was chair of white-collar compliance and defense. |
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