Sidley Austin has appointed Oren Gertner as a partner in the firm’s premier Investment Funds practic in New York. Gertner joins from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, where he was in the firm’s Corporate department, practicing in the Investment Management

RMB Capital (RMB) has promoted portfolio manager Andrew Baker, CFA (pictured), to partner. Baker joined RMB in 2008 as a senior analyst for the firm’s asset management team. Since then, he has been working as a generalist across asset classes

SYZ Asset Management, the institutional asset management operation of the SYZ Group, has appointed Thierry Cherf as Head of Institutional Sales for Switzerland, and Mr Sachin Sukthankar as Institutional Client Developer. Based in Geneva and reporting to Florent Guy-Ducrot, Head

US Bank Global Fund Services has hired Chris Rosenthal as senior vice president, business development.  In this role, Rosenthal will be responsible for developing new business relationships nationally for asset managers, insurance companies, banks and other financial institutions. He will

Outsourced investment office Partners Capital has added to its senior management team with the promotions of David Shushan and Toby Joll from Managing Director to Partner. Four other promotions from Senior Principal to Managing Director were announced. This takes the

Lee Capital Management (LCM) has appointed John Donaghey, CFA, CAIA as Head of Institutional Business, effective immediately.   Donaghey will join the firm as a Partner and will be responsible for organizing, building, and executing on all aspects of institutional sales,

Algorithmic trading company, Vanguard Capital AG, has appointed Imran Lakha to its Senior Management team.  With his past experience working with some of the largest tier 1 investment banks, including his last role as portfolio manager working with global alternative

Cheyne Capital, the London-based alternative asset manager, has launched a new sub-investment grade credit business, SVC. The team will be run by Anthony Robertson, formerly Head of Leveraged Finance at BlueBay Asset Management, who joins as CIO of the strategy.

Northern Trust has hired Edwin Chan (pictured), to spearhead sales across the alternatives fund sectors in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Reporting to John Grundy, institutional sales manager for Northern Trust’s Corporate & Institutional Services (C&IS) business in EMEA,

SANNE, a provider of alternative asset and corporate business services, has appointed a new director and head of business development for Mauritius and India. The move comes following SANNE’s announcement last year to expand the business and open an office