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Fiera Capital, an independent multi-boutique asset management firm, with over USD124 billion under management, has established a new European Headquarters at Queensbury House, Old Burlington Street in Mayfair, London. This move will see Fiera Capital consolidate all of its UK based subsidiaries and operations including Fiera Real Estate UK, Fiera Capital UK and Fiera Infrastructure within the same building.
The establishment of the new European headquarters follows the successful acquisition of an 80 per cent interest in Palmer Capital Partners Limited in March 2019 and its subsequent rebrand to Fiera Real Estate UK Limited. This was Fiera Capital’s first acquisition of
JTC has appointed Greg Kok as Head of Group JTC Management Company (ManCo) Services as the firm looks to continue to grow and develop its global ManCo and alternative investment fund management (AIFM) proposition.Based in Luxembourg, Greg will in his new role oversee the effective delivery, growth and evolution of JTC’s global ManCo platform and add to the technical resources for real estate, private equity and UCITS fund manager clients.
JTC has had a ManCo platform in Luxembourg, one of the first Luxembourg-based independent management companies to comply with the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, since 2016 and in Guernsey
THETA, a specialist provider of buy-side trading technology as a service, has appointed Peter Meddemmen as its Chief Technology Officer. Industry leading technologist, Meddemmen has more than 30 years of experience in Capital Markets managing technology for multi-asset solutions across the full order-execution life cycle, including front to back workflows, risk, security, legal and regulatory framework.
Meddemmen joins THETA from Bloomberg, where he held several senior positions in the Trading Solutions team since 2007. Previously, Meddemmen held CTO positions at City Index and GL Trade (acquired by Sungard in 2009). Earlier in his career, Peter was the VP for technology at
City law firm McCarthy Denning has appointed Justin Conway, a pan-European Special Situations and Credit Trading lawyer, as a Partner in its Banking & Finance Department.
International law firm Sullivan & Worcester has appointed Jennifer Pastarnack as a partner to lead its firmwide Global Debt and Claims Trading practice in New York.“At Sullivan, client relationships are at the core of our success. Jennifer brings that same client-focused, value-driven mentality to her practice. She has tremendous experience in a specialised area of the markets our domestic and international clients are interested in,” says Joel Carpenter, managing partner of the firm. “She is a great fit and we’re pleased that she’s chosen Sullivan as her new professional home.”
Pastarnack works with hedge funds, investment banks and asset managers
Sound Point Capital Management, an alternative asset management firm with approximately USD21 billion of assets under management, has appointed Francis McCullough as Global Head of CLO Capital Markets and Structuring.McCullough joins Sound Point from Deutsche Bank, where he spent the past 16 years, most recently as Managing Director and Global Head of New Issue CLOs. While at Deutsche Bank, McCullough worked in both New York and London and was responsible for originating, structuring and syndicating collateralised loan obligations. He brings a wealth of experience in corporate debt securitisation and managing complex multi-party transactions.
“We are delighted to welcome Francis to
Michael Green has joined LA-based boutique quantitative hedge fund Logica Capital as Chief Strategist & Portfolio Manager. Green comes to Logica from Thiel Macro where he managed discretionary macro portfolios for the family office of Peter Thiel with an emphasis on volatility strategies. Prior to Thiel, Green founded Ice Farm Capital, a discretionary global macro hedge fund seeded by Soros Family Management. And from 2006-2014, he founded and managed the New York office of Canyon Capital Advisors, a USD23 billion multi-strategy hedge fund, where he established global macro strategies, managing in excess of USD5 billion of exposure across equity, credit, FX,
GCM Grosvenor has appointed Eric Levin as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), based in the firm’s Chicago headquarters. Levin brings more than twenty years of experience to the role. He joins GCM Grosvenor from PEAK6 Investments, where he has worked for the last 13 years leading technology and business strategy. Levin served as a member of the Strategic Capital team and Investment Committee and most recently as Chief Information Officer of Apex Clearing.
“Eric brings a wealth of experience across the full technology spectrum as well as extensive business and leadership acumen,” said Michael Sacks, Chairman and CEO of GCM Grosvenor. “We
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has appointed Michael Newell, a fund formation partner, to the firm’s London team.
MSCI Inc has appointed Man Group Chief Investment Officer Sandy Rattray as an independent director on the company’s Board.
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