International law firm Walkers has appointed partner Paul Farrell in its new Dublin office where he will head up Walkers’ Investment Funds Group in Ireland. Farrell joins Walkers from Matheson Ormsby Prentice, where he practised as an asset management partner,
BlueCrest Capital Management has appointed Matthew Weir as chief risk officer to oversee risk management for the firm’s investment funds and lead a team of six.
Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen has appointed Howard Mulligan as Of Counsel in the Corporate Department. Mulligan is an experienced corporate and securities attorney who practices in the areas of structured finance and business restructurings. Mulligan previously practiced in the
Oak Hill Advisors has appointed Chris Cereghino as Managing Director in the firm’s client coverage team. Cereghino is based in New York and, along with a team of other professionals, is responsible for business development and relationship management. Cereghino’s arrival
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Reena Walia as managing director of Equities Risk Management in its Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Group. In her new position, Walia will lead a team charged with assessing risk management across
Infonic, provider of HedgeSphere, a product suite for operations of funds of hedge funds, has named Nolan Phillips as chief operating officer and Bridget Piraino as head of global marke
The Board of Directors of the National Futures Association (NFA) has elected W Robert Felker, Chairman of JPMorgan Futures Inc, to serve another one-year term as Chairman and Christopher K. Hehmeyer, Non-Executive Chairman at Penson GHCO, to serve as Vice-Chairman.
The Collingwood Group has appointed Mark DeGennaro as Managing Director to help build the firm’s hedge fund/private equity advisory and principal investment businesses. Prior to joining Collingwood, DeGennaro was a Managing Director of a privately held boutique investment-banking firm
Law firm Dechert has appointed Mark Browne as a partner with the firm’s financial services group in its Dublin office. “We are delighted to have Mark join us,” says Peter Astleford, Dechert’s global financial services group co-chair. “Mark’s experience, dynamism
Stephen Darling is joining CIBC on 1 March as Managing Director with the firm’s currencies team in London. Darling has 19 years of foreign exchange trading experience with the London operations of the Royal Bank of Canada where he
