James R Brown has rejoined law firm’ Ropes & Gray’s tax practice as a partner in New York. Brown (pictured) previously practiced at Ropes & Gray for 15 years. He rejoins the firm from Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New

Ramius chief executive officer Michael Singer is leaving the alternative investment manager to pursue new career opportunities. Fred Fraenkel, vice chairman of Cowen, has been named interim head of asset management.   “We thank Michael for his significant contributions to

PPB Capital Partners, a designer and administrator of alternative investment funds for the wealth management industry, has appointed Frank Burke as chief investment strategist. Burke (pictured), will advise PPB Capital’s network of investment advisors on selecting best-of-class alternative investment products

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Derek West, former senior director of derivatives oversight at the Quebec Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), as executive director and chief compliance officer for the firm’s European Global Trade Repository (GTR)

MSCI has appointed David Zhang has head of securitised products research, a newly created role. Zhang, who previously headed modelling of securitised products at Credit Suisse, will oversee MSCI’s development of models that help traders, portfolio managers and other institutional

Markus Ruetimann has joined the board of Global Prime Partners as senior non-executive director. Having worked in the financial services industry for over 25 years in Zurich, Geneva, New York and currently London, Ruetimann (pictured) was previously group COO of

CubeLogic, a specialist in Business Intelligence products and services for risk management in the energy, commodity, and financial markets, has appointed Mark Crosno (pictured), as Vice President of US sales to help manage the exploding interest in cloud-enabled BI for

Saxo Capital Markets UK Ltd (SCML), the UK subsidiary of Saxo Bank A/S, has appointed Andrew Edwards as its new CEO effective from January 2018. Edwards (pictured), joins SCML as an experienced CEO with over eighteen years in the sector,

Law firm Goodwin has expanded its private equity and private investment funds practices with the appointment of six new partners, 15 associates and five trainees in the London office, all of whom join from the London office of King &

International law firm Proskauer has promoted 23 lawyers, 14 to partner and nine to senior counsel, including three partners promotions in the private investment funds and private equity teams in London. “We are pleased to promote this outstanding group to