Private client, corporate services and fund administration business Oak Group (Oak) has appointed James Tracey as managing director of its funds business in Guernsey, subject to regulatory approval. Tracey, who has joined Oak from JTC Group in Guernsey where he has been managing director since 2018, is heading up Oak Fund Services, which delivers specialist bespoke fund administration services to private equity, open ended, listed and alternative asset fund structures. Tracey has a career in the finance industry spanning more than 20 years and has extensive knowledge of investment and wealth management structures across a wide variety of asset classes.

Capital markets services provider Options Technology has appointed Una McLornan as VP, account management, colocation operations. McLornan joined Options through the graduate programme in 2015 from NYSE Technologies, where she served as an Enterprise Software Support Engineer for two years.

Kirkland & Ellis has appointed Nicole Runyan, William Tuttle, Brad Green, Erin Lett, David Marcinkus and Lisa Goldstein as partners in the firm’s Investment Funds Group. The team focuses on advising registered funds and business development companies (BDCs) — as well as their investment advisers and independent board members — and investment banks, with a particular emphasis on products designed for high net worth and retail investors. Runyan advises on the creation, registration and operation of registered products designed for retail as well as institutional investors. In addition to advising on more traditional open-end and closed-end fund matters, she regularly

LPA, a capital markets technology and advisory firm, has appointed Michael Gouverneur as new sales lead for Capmatix Contract Navigator. Gouverneur is an experienced Sales Director with a demonstrated history of selling enterprise software solutions for leading capital markets firms including Planixs, Calypso Technology, Summit Systems and Thomson Reuters Kondor suite. Working alongside LPA Chief Product Officer, Keith O’Brien, Gouverneur will be based from Frankfurt and will focus on helping new clients with their digital journey using LPA’s Capmatix Contract Navigator which provides an automated solution for complex agreements and has applications such as for syndicated loans, trade finance and

Varenne Capital Partners (Varenne Capital), A Paris-based investment firm managing $3.9 billion at the end of the first quarter 2022, has made several additions to its team.

CRUX Asset Management (CRUX), an active equity investment manager, has bolstered its specialist UK equities investment team with the appointment of investment analyst Tom Messenger. Messenger will support AAA Citywire-rated fund manager, Richard Penny, on the TM CRUX UK Special Situations Fund and the TM CRUX UK Core Fund. He joins from Momentum Investment Solutions & Consulting, where he has been an investment analyst since July 2018. Prior to that he was an equity research analyst at Third Bridge Group Limited.

BTIG has added James Mozer to its Structured Product business within BTIG’s Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities division as a managing director. Mozer brings more than thirteen years of industry experience to the firm. Prior to BTIG, he held several positions at Morgan Stanley, most recently as executive director and head of the Non-Agency Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) and Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) Desk. Earlier in his career at Morgan Stanley, Mozer was a vice president, Subprime and Options Trader as well as a RMBS Trader. BTIG’s Structured Product Sales, Trading and Strategy professionals are focused on secondary trading as well

Options Technology, a leading Capital Markets services provider, has appointed Shaun Jackson as chief commercial officer. Jackson joined Options in April 2021 with two decades of experience in Finance and Commercial management roles. He previously worked at Luxoft, First Data (now Fiserv), and most recently at Fixnetix, where he held Chief Financial Officer and Chief Commercial Officer roles over his eleven-year tenure.

Managed Funds Association (MFA), the trade association for the global alternative asset management industry, has hired David Lourie as Vice President and Senior Counsel, Regulatory Affairs. Prior to joining MFA, Lourie served as Associate General Counsel at General Atlantic. Lourie brings a decade of experience in the alternative investment industry. Prior to joining MFA, he was Associate General Counsel and Vice President at General Atlantic where he worked closely on issues relating to ESG. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Southern California.