CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 19, 2011 Standard Life Charles Guay has been appointed as president and chief executive of Standard Life Canada. He will start on 1 February 2012 to replace Joseph Iannicelli, and is joining from National Bank of Canada, where he is senior vice president, strategies, marketing and investment solutions, wealth management. He additionally holds the role of president [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS November 27, 2011 Mayer Brown The global law firm has hired Bernd Bohr as a partner in the corporate and securities practice. Bohr is relocating from the New York office of Allen & Overy to support the expansion of Mayer Brown’s US M&A and capital markets practice in Europe. He specialises in SEC-registered securities offerings, public and private [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS September 7, 2011 Ogier Jersey Legal The offshore legal services provider has appointed Matthew Swan as managing partner, replacing Matthew Thompson, whose term of office has come to an end after four years in the role. Swan (pictured) is head of the firm’s business and trust law group and the Jersey banking team. Thompson, who specialises in commercial [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 18, 2011 Jupiter Asset Management Amanda Sillars (pictured) and David Lewis have joined Jupiter’s Merlin fund-of-funds team as fund selection specialist and assistant fund manager respectively. Sillars was formerly investment director and executive director at JP Morgan Asset Management, where she managed about 500 funds and investment trusts. Lewis has been promoted from Jupiter’s private clients & [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 16, 2011 Legal & General Property Charlie Walker has been promoted to director of the property fund manager and appointed to the LGP Board. Most recently, Walker was senior fund manager to the UK Property Income Fund. In his new role, he will continue to oversee the fund, which this month secured a further £100m of equity. [...]
HARLAN’S LICENCE TO THRILL HIS CITY FANS April 3, 2011 NEVER mind capital markets – when clients meet Craig Coben, head of equity capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, they are far more interested in talking about when his famous brother, the US author Harlan Coben, is publishing his next novel. “A lot of the bank’s corporate and private equity clients – ranging [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS March 23, 2011 Mayer Brown The City law firm has boosted its asset finance team with the hire of former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe European managing partner Stuart McAlpine. McAlpine focuses on cross-border asset and project finance transactions in the shipping, offshore and energy sectors. At Orrick, he spent time in the firm’s Singapore, London and Paris offices. [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS February 3, 2011 Savoy Investment Management The wealth management subsidiary of Syndicate Asset Management has hired James Bowles (pictured). Bowles will be responsible for providing tailored services for the north west of England. He was formerly with Anglo Irish Bank, where he had a similar regional brief, and Levi Solicitors in Yorkshire. The firm specialises in portfolios invested [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 15, 2010 Threadneedle Asset manager Threadneedle has hired Michael Langlois (pictured) as its head of wholesale distribution, Asia. He will begin work in January and will be working closely with Raymundo Yu. Langlois will be in charge of relationships with Asian financial institutions and also of dealings with global private banks. He joins the firm from Permal [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS October 27, 2010 Speechly Bircham The law firm has appointed Jonathan Crawford as a partner in its corporate practice. Crawford joins from Mayer Brown, where he was also a partner in the London corporate group. He specialises in the financial services sector, where he has a wealth of previous experience of large, often cross-border, transactional work including mergers [...]