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National law firm Seward & Kissel has promoted Kevin Neubauer to partner and Brian Maloney to counsel. The promotions are effective 1 January, 2020.
“We are thrilled to make these well-deserved promotions. Kevin brings our clients a tremendous wealth of knowledge in fund formation and other issues of concern to private funds and pooled investment vehicles,” says Seward & Kissel Managing Partner Jim Cofer. “Brian has demonstrated his litigation talents across a range of subjects and types of engagements, from banking and shipping disputes to securities investigations. His versatility is a great asset to our clients and the Firm.”
Neubauer has extensive experience
Hamilton Lane, a private markets asset management firm, has appointed Atul Varma as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer effective 6 January.
Varma will succeed Randy M Stilman, who will be retiring from the role after 22 years. Stilman will remain at Hamilton Lane into 2020 to help ensure a smooth transition of his responsibilities.
Varma brings two decades of leadership experience in financial services to Hamilton Lane. He was most recently Head of Business Strategy and Chief Financial Officer of Wealth Management at The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Varma served as Chief
Akram & Associates, a boutique Public Accounting Firm specialising in accounting, audit and tax services to alternative investment entities, had another successful year in 2019, growing 40 per cent, and is targeting double-digit growth again in 2020.
Kempen Capital Management has added to its UK business development team with the appointment of Julie Alexander as a business development director.
Alexander brings nearly 18 years of experience to the role. In her previous position, she worked for 12 years as a senior investment consultant for Willis Towers Watson, where she focused predominantly on advising DC and DB schemes. Prior to this, she worked for Coal Pension Trustees Services and Barclays Capital.
The appointment follows a series of new hires earlier in the year, as Kempen continues to meet growing demand by UK pension schemes for its fiduciary management
DASH Financial Technologies, a capital markets technology and execution specialist, has appointed Steven Bonanno as Chief Information Officer.
Reporting directly to CEO Peter Maragos, Bonanno will be responsible for DASH’s IT infrastructure and technology platform operations.
Bonanno brings over 25 years’ experience working in the equities trading technology industry. He joins DASH from Bloomberg, where he served as Global Head of Risk Operations at the firm’s Tradebook agency brokerage business. He also served as the Global Head of Alliance Support, leading several key projects involving the transition of Tradebook from an executing agency broker model to that of a fintech
Stableton, a European platform for alternative investments, has hired Ethan B Schaerer to lead the firm’s strategic business development, sales and marketing initiatives into the next growth stage. On 1 January 2020, Schaerer will assume the position of Managing Partner alongside Stableton’s co-founders Andreas Bezner (CEO) and Konstantin Heiermann (CFO).
The 16-year financial industry veteran joins Stableton from Greentech Capital Advisors. At Greentech Capital (merger with Nomura announced), Schaerer worked closely with its founder, a former Joint Global Head of Investment Banking at UBS, to create the largest global advisory firm that focuses exclusively on sustainable infrastructure, technology, and impact investments.
Assured Guaranty Corp (AGC), a subsidiary of Assured Guaranty, has appointed Steven Kahn as Senior Managing Director, Structured Finance.
Thalēs, a financial services firm specialising in derivatives brokerage and capital raising, has appointed David Wulffleff as Managing Director.
With more than 19 years of experience focused on listed derivatives execution and clearing, Wulffleff has amassed valuable experience in servicing commodity merchants, energy companies, and hedge funds. Before joining Thalēs, Wulffleff held leadership roles at Mizuho Securities as a Managing Director of Clearing Sales as well as at Banco BTG Pactual as an Executive Director of International Sales. Prior to that, Wulffleff was Director of Front-to-Back Sales at UBS Securities, Director of the Global Futures Group at ABN AMRO, and Vice
BTIG has added Keryn Limmer, a Managing Director, to its Outsource Trading division in New York. Limmer joins the unit from the firm’s Institutional Equities team, where she held a senior sales trading role for more than 15 years.
“We are excited to welcome Keryn to the BTIG Outsource Trading team at this critical period in our business development efforts worldwide,” says Chris Casanovas, Managing Director and Head of BTIG Outsource Trading. “As a proven firm leader with extensive sales and trading expertise, Keryn is an important strategic and tactical addition to our team. She has deep and established relationships
Crypto Asset Rating (CAR), an Independent Structured Rating Agency, has expanded its global team further with the appointment of David Goldenberg as Corporate and Regulatory Advisor.
Goldenberg will bring to CAR his extensive legal, compliance and regulatory experience in the financial services industry, including in the area of credit ratings.
“Goldenberg is an accomplished global executive, having led legal and compliance departments of various sizes through a range of challenges over the past 22 years” says Lacey Kaelani, a spokesperson for Crypto Asset Rating Inc. “We are excited to benefit from his experience and judgment as we bring consistency and transparency to the
