City Moves for 15 August 2016 | Who’s switching jobs August 15, 2016 P-Solve P-Solve, part of River and Mercantile Group, has appointed Ajeet Manjrekar as co-head of P-Solve alongside Ross Leach. Ajeet is re-joining P-Solve, having previously worked with the company as an investment consultant and principal until 2007. He subsequently worked for Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management business and spin-off Global Thematic Partners. Ajeet is an actuary with 18 years’ [...]
City Moves for 23 June 2016 | Who’s switching jobs June 23, 2016 CMS Anna Burchner has been promoted to a partner in law firm CMS' London tax team. Anna has been a senior associate in the tax team since 2005 and is noted for her expertise in both international and domestic tax, particularly funds and financial services related work. She has significant experience on the tax structuring of high-value, multi-jurisdictional [...]
City Moves for 20 June 2016 | Who’s switching jobs June 20, 2016 Burford Capital Burford Capital, a global finance firm focused on law, has expanded its team in London. Leeor Cohen has been appointed vice president. Most recently a director in the leveraged finance business at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Leeor joins Burford’s global investment team with a broad range of experience as a lawyer, investment [...]
Shining a light on pay disparity can be the harbinger of change May 3, 2016 With his recent £70m pay check, Sir Martin Sorrell has cast himself once again as either pantomime villain or Hero of New Capitalism. Whichever side you take, WPP’s employees and the wider world now know his salary, which colours the extent to which we agree with his L’Oréal worthy proclamation: “I’m worth it”. Changes for the good in pay [...]
RBS’s share price drops as losses widen more than expected to £968m April 29, 2016 Losses at Royal Bank of Scotland have widened more than expected in the first quarter of 2016, as the bank confirmed it will have to consider alternatives for its plan to offload William & Glyn. Shares dropped by more than two per cent to 239p in response to the news. The figures RBS made an attributable [...]
All aboard! The banking rollercoaster ride is here April 27, 2016 The UK’s banks have been on a rollercoaster ride since the dark days of the credit crunch in 2008, from PPI mis-selling to Libor and the Forex scandal. Recent woes include market volatility, capital buffers and low interest rates depressing margins. As first quarter reporting season kicks off with Barclays today, some good news at [...]
City Moves for 5 April 2016 | Who’s switching jobs April 5, 2016 Bevan Brittan Law firm Bevan Brittan has announced that Joanne Easterbrook has been appointed senior partner with effect from 1 May 2016. Joanne succeeds Bethan Evans in the post, who is returning to full-time local government client work. Joanne is a highly experienced partner and recognised specialist, leading the firm’s clinical risk practice and counting [...]
City Moves for 8 March 2016 | Who’s switching jobs March 8, 2016 Indigo Planning Indigo Planning has appointed regeneration and community engagement expert Mark Teasdale as associate director. Mark has provided consultancy advice to Indigo Planning for more than 10 years, creating its methodology for assessing the socio-economic impact of major, mixed use developments, directing numerous studies assessing the potential economic and social benefits of major schemes [...]
City Moves for 2 February 2016 | Who’s switching jobs February 2, 2016 Brewin Dolphin Brewin Dolphin, an independent provider of personalised, discretionary wealth management services, has announced that Heather Sonnet has joined the company to launch a new office in Cambridge to cater for the growing number of people in the area seeking financial planning and investment advice. Heather, who joins from Almary Green Investments, is a [...]
City Moves for 6 January 2016 | Who’s switching jobs January 6, 2016 Victoria Michael Scott been appointed group finance director of Aim 50-listed floorcovering designers and manufacturers Victoria. Michael joins after eight years at Rothschild, where, as part of its global financial advisory business, he worked across a wide range of public and private company transactions, mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity-related fundraisings. He qualified as [...]