Indos Financial, the UK’s only independent AIFMD depositary, is adding to its team with the appointment of Andrew Watson (pictured), a chartered accountant with over 14 years experience within the private equity and financial service industry. Watson joins INDOS Financial’s London office and will manage the firm’s growing private equity and real estate depositary business. Watson started his career in 1999 with PricewaterhouseCoopers working across a variety of Banking and Capital Markets clients. In 2003, Andrew joined the European private equity team at Bank of America as Financial Controller which later became Argan Capital, an independent European mid-market private equity

Scipion Capital has strengthened its legal division, on-the-ground operations and corporate governance with three new senior hires. International financial lawyer Myriam Ly has joined as General Counsel to oversee all of the group’s legal matters. Myriam is a dual qualified lawyer admitted to both the Paris Bar and the roll of solicitors in England and Wales. She has worked in the field of finance law for leading law firms in London, Paris and Geneva for the past 9 years.  Before joining Scipion, Myriam was a senior associate at Schulte Roth & Zabel International LLP, where her practice focused on the

Kher Sheng Lee has joined The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) in its Singapore office. Lee joins AIMA from Azentus Capital, where he held the position of General Counsel. He will take up the position of AIMA’s Managing Director, Global Deputy Head of Government Affairs and Head of APAC Government Affairs.   Lee founded and chaired the peer-to-peer buyside networking group The Asian Hedge Fund Legal and Regulatory Group (also known as AsianHedgeLaw). He is commended by the Financial Times in the FT’s special report ‘Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers 2015’, where the FT noted that he “has played an important role

Dallas-based alternative investment manager Highland Capital Management has appointed Terry Jones as President of Institutional Products.  Jones will report to James Dondero (pictured), Co-Founder and President for Highland Capital Management, and will be based in Dallas. Bringing more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, ones will lead Highland's discussions with strategic institutional allocators to drive solutions-oriented business development and serve as a complement to Highland's broader institutional sales platform. In addition, Jones will be integral in aligning portfolio risk management across the Highland platform and optimising Highland's risk management infrastructure with respect to identifying, assessing and