City Moves for 24 February 2015 | Who’s switching jobs February 23, 2015 Axa UK Bruno Charlin has been appointed chief investment officer at Axa UK. He was previously chief operating officer of group investment and group head of asset and liability management at Axa Group. Charlin has nearly 30 years’ experience in financial services. Duke Street The mid market private equity firm has appointed Stuart McMinnies as [...]
City Moves for 20 February 2015 | Who’s switching jobs February 19, 2015 Hausfeld The law firm has appointed Ed Coulson (pictured) as partner in its London office. He joins from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), where he worked on complex competition and commercial litigation. His appointment follows that of James Henson, who joined in January from BLP, and Shirley Clarke, who recently joined Hausfeld’s financial services litigation practice [...]
Lipton Rogers and Axa takeover Pinnacle tower for £220m February 19, 2015 Developer Lipton Rogers and fund manager Axa have agreed to takeover the stalled Pinnacle tower development in London’s Square Mile. The pair bid around £220m to buy the site located on 22-24 Bishopsgate in the heart of the city. It has been dormant since 2011 when its developer ran out of funding. [...]
City Moves for 18 February 2015 | Who’s switching jobs February 17, 2015 Crowdcube Dean Mayer and Stuart Nicol have been appointed head of Debt and growth director respectively by the crowdfunding platform. Mayer is co-founder of Fidelitas, a mini-bond and debt advisory firm, and brings 22 years’ experience. He has worked at Belvall Capital, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, RBS and HSBC Private Equity. Nicol has worked at The [...]
Pinnacle design destined for scrapheap February 15, 2015 NEW DESIGNS for the Pinnacle tower in the City are being drawn up as its owners prepare to sell the ill-fated site, where work ground to a halt three years ago. A consortium led by French fund manager Axa is said to be close to buying the scheme from Arab Investments and Sedco. PLP Architecture, [...]
City Moves for 16 February 2015 | Who’s switching jobs February 15, 2015 GE Capital Isabel Fernandez has been named chief commercial officer of the financial services unit of General Electric. Fernandez has been with the firm since 2000. Prior to starting with GE Capital, she was vice president of Project Finance at ABN Ambro Bank. Mediobanca The Italian-based bank has appointed Felipe De Grado as managing director [...]
City Moves for 03 February 2015 | Who’s switching jobs February 2, 2015 HIG Capital Riccardo Dallolio has been appointed managing director and co-head of European real estate at the private equity investment firm. He previously worked at Axa RE, where he was head of alternatives and special situations, and has also held roles at JP Morgan and Grove International Partners. Coutts The private bank has announced the [...]
Funeral costs: Why is it so expensive to die? January 28, 2015 How much does it cost to die? Around £3,590 apparently, which is the cost of an [XX], [XX] or an [XX]. What's more, the cost of dying is rising by around three per cent a year, putting it way ahead of th erate of infaltion which fell to a record low of 0.5 per cent in [...]
Eyesore or beauty? The 14 postwar office blocks listed by English Heritage January 28, 2015 Whether you're a fan or take an altogether more "Prince Charles" attitude to post-war architecture, office buildings provide some of the finest examples of it. And turns out English Heritage thinks it's worth preserving: the organisation has listed 14 of the UK's best-loved (or most-hated) post-war offices. According to English Heritage, the buildings – which [...]
Google rents more office space at 6 Pancras Square in King’s Cross after campus delay January 12, 2015 Google has signed a deal to let more space in a building at King’s Cross after deciding to redraw plans for new £650m headquarters at the central London site. The search engine giant has agreed to lease all of 6 Pancras Square, after originally signing up for just under half of the space in [...]