Highvern has made three senior hires as it opens a new Irish office in Dublin. The Dublin business will be headed up by Philip Dempsey as Country Head – Ireland, who is joined by Adrian Bailie and Emma Keane as Directors.   The Irish offering will include, subject to the applicable regulatory approvals, corporate and fund administration services to unregulated and regulated structures across Debt, Capital Markets, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Private Equity, Aviation, Hedge and other alternative asset classes in the Irish marketplace.

Law firm Seward & Kissel has promoted Daniel Bresler and Nicholas Miller to partner. The firm has also promoted Jay Baroody, Kurt Plankl, Dora Pulido, Filana Silberberg, and Steven Starr to counsel. The promotions were effective 1 January, 2022.   Bresler is a member of the firm’s Investment Management Group, and represents US and non-U.S. investment managers, commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisors, and private funds, including hedge funds and private equity funds.  Miller is also a member of the firm’s Investment Management Group and represents sponsors and managers of private investment funds, including hedge funds and private equity funds,

Corinthian has appointed Denis Vinokourov as a Principal and Head of Research. Corinthian is the brainchild of Paul Frost-Smith who, having developed algorithmic trading strategies at Argentium, saw the opportunity to invest across the entire crypto value chain, not just in high frequency arbitrage.  Vinokourov joins Corinthian from Synergia Capital, a DeFi Fund where he was Head of Research and part of the team tasked with identifying early-stage investment opportunities, with a particular focus on DeFi protocols across blockchains. Before this, he was Head of Research for Bequant, where he published thematic, tactical and market structure research on key trends

Apex Group Ltd has appointed John Davis as Managing Director, Singapore. Reporting to Valerie Mantot-Groene, Regional Managing Director, APAC, Davis will be responsible for leading a team of over 100 locally-based experts, and driving the firm’s continued growth and performance in the APAC region. Davis brings over 13 years of experience in the Fund Services industry, as a Member of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Fund Administrators Association (SFAA) and most recently as Managing Director, Singapore at Mainstream Group. Davis joined Mainstream Fund Services as a graduate and held a variety of fund services roles including portfolio valuation, unit

Willkie Farr & Gallagher has added David S Hong as a partner in the firm’s Asset Management Department based in the Los Angeles office. Hong was previously a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson. Hong focuses his practice on the formation and operation of private funds across the spectrum of asset classes, including private equity, credit, real estate, venture capital, growth equity, hedge and hybrid funds. He represents emerging and institutional private fund sponsors in fund formations, fund investment matters, seed capital arrangements, complex restructurings, structuring of investment management businesses and regulatory, compliance and operational issues. In addition, he represents

Bridgewater Associates has named co-CEO deputy chief executive Nir Bar Dea, and former Aetna Chief Executive Mark Bertolini, – a member of Bridgewater’s board for three years – as co-Chief Executives of the world’s largest hedge fund, according to a Finance News report. The announcement was made in a memo to Bridgwater employees that was released publicly, informing staff that CEO David McCormick would be stepping down to consider running for the US Senate in Pennsylvania. Bridgewater has had performance problems in recent years with the firm’s flagship Pure Alpha macro fund posting its worst monthly loss in March 2020.

Arcesium, a global financial technology and professional services firm, has expanded its India-based operations with a new office in Delhi NCR. The new office, located in DLF Cyber Park, a technology hub in Gurugram with state-of-the-art infrastructure, will be staffed with employees across technology, services, and other key functions.    Arcesium is a provider of post-investment and enterprise data management solutions to hedge funds, banks, institutional asset managers, and private equity firms.

Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM), one of the world’s leading investment managers, has appointed Alan Keating to lead its Dublin based UCITS management company. Keating, who will form part of NTAM EMEA’s executive leadership team, will focus on ensuring the continued growth, management and governance of its UCITS fund range. He reports to Marie Dzanis, head of NTAM for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Keating joins NTAM from Duff & Phelps, where he was managing director and CEO of their UCITS and AIFMD management company. Prior to that he was CEO of MUFG Alternative Fund Services, an Irish MiFID

The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has a created a new Global Investor Board (GIB) as it looks to strengthen engagement with the investor community and its growing allocator membership. The board, which comprises of senior leaders at global institutional investors (representing interests in public and private markets), will provide oversight to AIMA’s investor outreach, advancing industry sound practices and education for the alternative investment industry. Founding members of the board are: Eduard van Gelderen, CIO, PSP Investments (GIB Chair) Henry Chau, Head of Investments, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Anne-Marie Fink, CIO, Private Market Funds & Alpha, State of

BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), RBC Global Asset Management’s (RBC GAM) specialist fixed income manager, has added two new senior hires to its Structured Credit team, Brian O’Hara as a Portfolio Manager and Mark Shohet as a Senior Analyst. O’Hara and Shohet are both US-based and will report into Sid Chhabra, Head of Structured Credit and CLO Management.  Prior to joining BlueBay, O’Hara was the CMBS Portfolio Manager at KLS Diversified Asset Management for 13 years where he was head of CRE/CMBS investments, and a member of the KLS investment committee.  Shohet was Vice President of CLO Tranche Investing at Oxford